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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt managed to keep away from seeing one another on the 2024 Venice Film Festival.
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 one of the vital excessive profile Hollywood occasions of the yr, did Brangelina keep away from a run-in?
Careful planning or a stroke of serendipity?
Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie Both At The Venice Film Festival At The Same Time
Angelina was anticipated to take care of help her subsequent huge movie, Maria, wherein 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 most likely comes as no shock that the powers that be stepped in to ensure each Oscar winners and former spouses have been nicely taken care of.
But to what extent may shock just a few.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Venice inventive director Alberto Barbera mentioned the fest took particular care to maintain the well-known exes’ movies from overlapping on its schedule.
“Angelina shall be on the primary day, on Thursday [Aug. 29], and she’s going to depart proper after with [‘Maria’ director] Pablo Larraín” for the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Barbera mentioned. “So Brad will arrive solely on Saturday, to Venice. There is not any means that they’ll 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 greatest for everybody was to maintain Brad and Angelina nicely away from one another.
Honestly, it’s for the very best.
Brad and Angelina Still At War
In an interview with Vogue in 2021, Angelina mentioned she cut up from Brad for the “wellbeing” of her household. “It was the precise determination,” she mentioned on the time.
But that call has been expensive 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 Winery.
A 9 hour drive from the place the Venice Film Festival is held, the Winery 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 centered on alcohol.
“Even now unimaginable 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 previous…. But it’s also 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 actual bother started – and why they nonetheless can’t be in the identical room as one another.
Angelina Jolie At Venice Film Festival 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 closing 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 advised reporters, she nonetheless needed to undergo in depth coaching.
“Everybody right here is aware of, I used to be terribly nervous,” she mentioned of studying to sing opera on the movie’s press convention. “I spent virtually seven months coaching as a result of while you work with Pablo you may’t do something by half. He calls for, in essentially the most great means, that you simply actually do the work and you actually be taught and prepare.”
Brad Pitt Will Get His Turn
Meanwhile, Brad Pitt shall 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 shall be no gone.
And by no means the 2 shall meet, maybe ever once more.
