Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt managed to keep away from seeing one another on the 2024 Venice Movie Competition.
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 avoid a run-in?
Cautious planning or a stroke of serendipity?
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Each At The Venice Movie Competition At The Similar Time
Angelina was anticipated to take care of assist her subsequent large movie, Maria, through which she performs the titular character, opera singer Maria Callas. Brad, then again, will reunite along with his pal George Clooney for the premiere of Wolfs.
It in all probability comes as no shock that the powers that be stepped in to ensure each Oscar winners and former spouses have been properly taken care of.
However to what extent would possibly shock a number of.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Venice inventive director Alberto Barbera stated the fest took particular care to maintain the well-known exes’ movies from overlapping on its schedule.
“Angelina will likely be on the primary day, on Thursday [Aug. 29], and she is going to go away proper after with [‘Maria’ director] Pablo Larraín” for the Telluride Movie Competition in Colorado, Barbera stated. “So Brad will arrive solely on Saturday, to Venice. There isn’t any manner that they will cross one another on the Lido,” the famed island on which the fest takes place.
So then, from the very begin, it was determined that what was finest for everybody was to maintain Brad and Angelina properly away from one another.
Actually, it’s for the perfect.
Brad and Angelina Nonetheless At Warfare
In an interview with Vogue in 2021, Angelina stated she cut up from Brad for the “wellbeing” of her household. “It was the suitable determination,” she stated on the time.
However that call has been expensive for her, each emotionally and financially.
The couple nonetheless discover themselves in a legal 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 Competition is held, the Vineyard was bought throughout Brad and Angelina’s marriage.
A Vanity Fair article in June 2023 revealed that Jolie contacted Pitt in January 2021 about her determination to promote her curiosity within the vineyard as a result of it was a enterprise targeted on alcohol.
“Even now not possible to write down this with out crying,” Jolie wrote. “Above all, it’s the place we introduced the twins house to, and the place we have been married over a plaque in my mom’s reminiscence. A spot…the place I assumed I might develop outdated…. However additionally it is the place that marks the start of the top of our household.”
For causes that stay unconfirmed, Brad didn’t settle for Angelina’s supply to promote her portion of the corporate/property. When talks fell by, she bought her curiosity to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler for $67 million.
And that’s the place the true bother started – and why they nonetheless can’t be in the identical room as one another.
Angelina Jolie At Venice Movie Competition For ‘Maria’
Brad’s ex Angelina Jolie was the discuss 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 best opera singer, Maria Callas, throughout her last days in Seventies Paris.
Angelina apparently sings within the movie, although her voice is synced with that of the well-known Callas, however as she informed reporters, she nonetheless needed to undergo intensive coaching.
“Everyone right here is aware of, I used to be terribly nervous,” she stated of studying to sing opera on the movie’s press convention. “I spent nearly seven months coaching as a result of while you work with Pablo you’ll be able to’t do something by half. He calls for, in essentially the most fantastic manner, that you just actually do the work and you actually study and practice.”
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.
