Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt managed to keep away from seeing one another on the 2024 Venice Movie Pageant.
The contentious exes haven’t been in the identical room as one another – and even on the identical purple carpet – since their cut up in 2016.
How then, at some of the excessive profile Hollywood occasions of the 12 months, did Brangelina keep away from a run-in?
Cautious planning or a stroke of serendipity?
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Each At The Venice Movie Pageant At The Identical Time
Angelina was anticipated to take care of help her subsequent massive movie, Maria, through which she performs the titular character, opera singer Maria Callas. Brad, however, will reunite along with his pal George Clooney for the premiere of Wolfs.
It most likely comes as no shock that the powers that be stepped in to verify each Oscar winners and former spouses have been properly taken care of.
However to what extent may shock a couple of.
In an interview with Vainness Truthful, Venice creative director Alberto Barbera mentioned the fest took particular care to maintain the well-known exes’ movies from overlapping on its schedule.
“Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday [Aug. 29], and she will leave right after with [‘Maria’ director] Pablo Larraín” for the Telluride Movie Pageant in Colorado, Barbera mentioned. “So Brad will arrive only on Saturday, to Venice. There is no way that they can cross each other at the Lido,” the famed island on which the fest takes place.
So then, from the very begin, it was determined that what was greatest for everybody was to maintain Brad and Angelina properly away from one another.
Truthfully, it’s for the very best.
Brad and Angelina Nonetheless At Conflict
In an interview with Vogue in 2021, Angelina mentioned she cut up from Brad for the “wellbeing” of her household. “It was the right decision,” she mentioned on the time.
However that call has been pricey for her, each emotionally and financially.
The couple nonetheless discover themselves in a authorized battle over their property from the time they have been married, specifically the Chateau Miraval Vineyard.
A 9 hour drive from the place the Venice Movie Pageant is held, the Vineyard was bought throughout Brad and Angelina’s marriage.
A Vainness Truthful article in June 2023 revealed that Jolie contacted Pitt in January 2021 about her choice to promote her curiosity within the vineyard as a result of it was a enterprise targeted on alcohol.
“Even now impossible to write this without crying,” Jolie wrote. “Above all, it is the place we brought the twins home to, and where we were married over a plaque in my mother’s memory. A place…where I thought I would grow old…. But it is also the place that marks the beginning of the end of our family.”
For causes that stay unconfirmed, Brad didn’t settle for Angelina’s provide to promote her portion of the corporate/property. When talks fell by way of, she offered her curiosity to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler for $67 million.
And that’s the place the actual hassle started – and why they nonetheless can’t be in the identical room as one another.
Angelina Jolie At Venice Movie Pageant For ‘Maria’
Brad’s ex Angelina Jolie was the speak of the fest on the Lido following her well-received efficiency in Maria.
Pablo Larraín’s biopic follows the life story of the world’s biggest opera singer, Maria Callas, throughout her remaining days in Nineteen Seventies Paris.
Angelina apparently sings within the movie, although her voice is synced with that of the well-known Callas, however as she instructed reporters, she nonetheless needed to undergo intensive coaching.
“Everybody here knows, I was terribly nervous,” she mentioned of studying to sing opera on the movie’s press convention. “I spent almost seven months training because when you work with Pablo you can’t do anything by half. He demands, in the most wonderful way, that you really do the work and you really learn and train.”
Brad Pitt Will Get His Flip
In the meantime, Brad Pitt will likely be on the town for the premiere of his film with George Clooney, Wolfs, on Sept. 1.
The motion comedy will discover the buddies reunited within the action-comedy flick as two “fixers” employed to kill the opposite.
The film drops on AppleTV+ this fall.
So by the point Brad arrives for his premiere, Angelina will likely be no gone.
And by no means the 2 shall meet, maybe ever once more.
