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Brad Pitt made an appearance in the film Thelma and Louise in the role of J.D. This was a major stepping stone for his future endeavours, gaining him attention in the movie sector for his obvious good looks.

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This is another drama film he starred in early on, the storyline following Pitts character during a coming of age plot.

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In this sci-fi film from 1995, Pitt played a crazed character in a mental asylum displaying the versatile acting ability he was highly praised for.

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He won a golden globe award for best supporting actor following his role in 12 monkeys.

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he won an Oscar for best supporting actor in once upon a time in Hollywood.

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Oceans eleven was the first oceans trilogy starring Brad Pitt as Rusty Ryan, a womanising criminal who is very sure of himself.

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The film 12 years a slave, which was co produced by Plan B entertainment went on to win a BAFTA award in 2014.

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Steve McQueen’s slavery drama beats Gravity and American Hustle to biggest prize of the night

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His thriving career after the news had blown over supports Huang's claims as he has played many iconic roles despite the aggressive behaviours and heartbreaker image only being brought to light for a short period of time. This may be due to gender biases towards men being more forgiving.

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It has been 25 years to the day since Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, crystalizing a cinema revolution, and we have never looked back. Yet here's one more QT anniversary, a bit less monumental but, in its way, as meaningful: It has been 10 years since the premiere of "Inglourious Basterds," which also took place at Cannes - and for me, at least, that means it's been a decade since Quentin Tarantino gave us an unambiguously great Quentin Tarantino movie.

You know the difference as well as I do, because it's one that you can feel in your heart, gut, nerves, and soul. It's the difference between a Quentin movie that's got dazzle and brilliance and a number of hypnotic sequences, and is every inch the work of his fevered movie candy brain, and a Quentin film that enters your bloodstream like a drug and stays there, inviting (compelling!) you to watch it again and again, because it's a virtuoso piece of the imagination from first shot to last, and every moment is marked by a certain ineffable something, the Tarantino X Factor that made "Pulp Fiction" the indie touchstone of its time.

"Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," which premiered today at Cannes, is not that total X Factor movie - though for long stretches (a good more than half of it), it feels like it could be. It comes closer than "Django Unchained" or (God knows) "The Hateful Eight." It's a heady, engrossing, kaleidoscopic, spectacularly detailed nostalgic splatter collage of a film, an epic tale of backlot Hollywood in 1969, which allows Tarantino to pile on all his obsessions, from drive-ins to donuts, from girls with guns to men with muscle cars and vendettas, from spaghetti Westerns to sexy bare feet. In this case, he doesn't have to work too hard to find spaces for those fixations, since Tarantino, in this 2-hour-and-39-minute tale of a Hollywood caught between eras, is reaching back to the very source of his dreams.

In "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," Tarantino tells the dual story of Rick Dalton ( Leonardo DiCaprio), who starred in a black-and-white TV Western series called "Bounty Law" in the late '50s and early '60s, but whose career is now hitting the skids; and Cliff Booth ( Brad Pitt), Rick's longtime stunt double and best pal, who has become his gofer and driver. Both are drawling, easy-going good ol' boys who are functional drunks (Rick favors whiskey sours; Cliff likes his bloody Marys), and they've been kicked around Hollywood, but they've got a yin-and-yang thing going.

Rick, who appears to be based at least partly on Burt Reynolds, is an instinctive actor, a gentle charmer, and a secret softie in a tan leather jacket - the first Tarantino hero to prove that real men do cry. (When the tears come, it's for how badly Rick has let his career melt down.) Cliff, by contrast, is a war veteran and rough-and-tumble stud bruiser who lives in a cruddy trailer next to the Van Nuys Drive-In but seems happy and satisfied, like most Brad Pitt characters, within himself. When he's crossed, he will kick the bejesus out of anyone, and he's got a bad reputation. The rumor is that he killed his wife and got away with it. (A flashback to a scene on a boat with that very wife, who digs at him mercilessly, doesn't spill the beans, but it's not exactly evidence that the rumor is false.)

The first two-thirds of "Once Upon a Time..." is set in February '69, and Tarantino views these two characters with a straight-up macho humanity that is gratifyingly unironic. DiCaprio and Pitt fill out their roles with such rawhide charismatic movie-star conviction that we're happy to settle back and watch Tarantino unfurl this tale in any direction he wants. And he does digress, in that following-his-free-associational-bliss way. A car-denting, fists-meets-martial-arts duel on the set of "The Green Hornet" between Cliff and Bruce Lee (played to ferocious perfection by Mike Moh)? Why not! A scene with Rick, playing a black-hatted villain on the new series "Lancer," getting into a philosophical chat about acting with his 8-year-old girl costar, who's a budding feminist Method Actor? Bring it. And when Cliff, driving Rick's cream-colored Coupe de Ville, keeps passing an outrageously flirtatious teenage hippie vamp in cut-offs and a halter top, who lives with a guy named Charlie at the Spahn Movie Ranch, the sense of worlds colliding, in ways as sinister as they are vibrant, feels right.

Many have turned the spectacle of Charles Manson and his girls into drama, but Tarantino is onto something by viewing Manson's followers as ominous harpies who also incarnated a new kind of sexualized feminine consciousness. And Tarantino takes us deeper than we've been into the life of Sharon Tate ( Margot Robbie), who along with her husband, Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha), has rented the house next to Rick's on Cielo Drive. Robbie nails Tate's wide-eyed slightly aristocratic sensual daze, and has a lot of fun in a scene where Sharon goes to a movie matinee to watch herself in the Matt Helm caper "The Wrecking Crew," exulting in her performance as she props her feet up on the seats, so that Quentin - in an image he uses as a motif more than ever before - can park his camera in front of them, as he does a little later with the Manson girls.

In "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," Tarantino re-creates the Hollywood of 50 years ago with a fantastically detailed and almost swoony time-machine precision, and it's not just about the marquees and the billboards featuring end-of-the-studio-system-era corn like "Three in an Attic," or all the juicy Top 40 chestnuts on the soundtrack. The movie captures how Hollywood, by 1969, was a head-spinningly layered place.

Here's the TV-cowboy mystique of the '60s, which is really a degraded schlock echo of the movie-cowboy culture of the '50s. Here's the rock 'n' roll of the moment (Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," "Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show"), which popped like crazy yet with a rambunctious easy-listening bounce. And here, beyond the music, is the new noisiness of America: the "hip" commercials blaring from transistor radios, the TV sets that never get turned off (even the Manson girls are TV zombies), the flamboyant hippie garb that's starting to go mainstream, turning the counterculture into a living fashion boutique.

Here's a Playboy Mansion party where Steve McQueen (Damian Lewis) is hanging out, as you might expect him to be, but then so is Mama Cass (Rachel Redleaf). McQueen fills in the back story of Sharon, Roman, and their friend Jay Sebring (Emile Hirsch), the hairdresser who is still in love with Sharon - and, according to McQueen, is hanging around with them because he's biding his time, waiting for Roman to screw up his marriage. At that point, we're hooked enough on Tarantino's heightened version of true-life Hollywood that this love triangle sounds like a little movie of its own.

Rick, on the set of "Lancer," turns out to be a desperate but terrific actor. There's a sensational extended sequence of him playing the villain, forgetting his lines, hating himself in the trailer, then revving himself to go back and give a hell of a performance, and it's all a testament to what an extraordinary actor DiCaprio is. Pitt is just as inspired. The sequence in which that Manson girl, named Pussycat (Margaret Qualley), gets Cliff to drive her back to the Spahn Movie Ranch, where Cliff used to shoot Westerns, and where he meets the Family (though not Charlie, who is only in the film for about 30 stray seconds), is creepy, suspenseful, and vengefully gratifying. All Cliff wants to do is say hello to his old colleague George Spahn (Bruce Dern). But to do that he's got to threaten his way past Squeaky Fromme (Dakota Fanning), who sleeps with George to secure the place for the Manson cult. In the late '60s, a lot of people passed through Spahn Ranch, and this encounter - though, of course, pure fiction - plays with an eerie plausibility.

Rick has an offer on the table, from a shrewd if scuzzy agent (Al Pacino), to shoot a Western in Rome. The prospect fills him with despair; he thinks spaghetti Westerns are the bottom rung of the entertainment totem pole. In a sense, he's right, but he goes and does it, taking Cliff with him, and he spends six months there, making a few more movies; he comes back with an Italian wife. And it's just at around the point of his return that "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," which thus far has been an enchanting Quentin ride, begins to move forward with less cocksure bravura, less virtuoso snap. In the movie, Tarantino has already introduced a narrator, who he uses sparingly, but then he starts to use the narrator more often, breaking the show-don't-tell mystique, and we wonder why. Isn't he the master of showing?

It's now August 8, 1969, and the rest of the film is devoted to Quentin Tarantino's version of how the Manson murders play out, which I will not reveal. I will say that what Tarantino does here rhymes, to a point, with the violent climax of "Inglourious Basterds." Yet that movie, as much as it toyed with history (which was no more, really, than any of the late-studio-system World War II movies it drew from), was also, in the largest sense, true to history. Hitler got destroyed, and the Americans won. Which is, in fact, what happened. The way Tarantino plays with the Manson murders in "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" is at once more extreme and more trivial. And frankly, for this Tarantino believer, that made it less satisfying.

You can say, as many will, that it's only a movie. But for much of "Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood," Tarantino brilliantly uses the presence of the Manson girls to suggest something in the Hollywood cosmos that's diabolical in its bad vibes. And the way the movie resolves all this feels, frankly, too easy. By the end, Tarantino has done something that's quintessentially Tarantino, but that no longer feels even vaguely revolutionary. He has reduced the story he's telling to pulp.

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Quentin Tarantino's tale of backlot Hollywood in 1969 is a heady engrossing collage of a film - but not, in the end, a masterpiece.

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Troy is a historical film based on war. Pitts god like physique got him the role of a war hero.

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Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt begun their relationship in 1994 during the production of Seven where they both acted in together. the pair got engaged in 1996, however split after only six months.

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Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow split over twenty years ago, but the former pair still have a love for each other.

They were, as Paltrow told , "a very '90s couple." The pair were the subject of constant media attention, from matching moments to romantic Parisian getaways.

The actors met while filming the movie Seven in 1994 and started dating shortly afterward. "I knew immediately," Pitt later told Rolling Stone of falling for Paltrow on set.

They dated for two years before Pitt popped the question in December 1996. But the pair never made it down the aisle - just six months later, they called it quits.

Pitt and Paltrow have both long since moved on with other high-profile relationships: Paltrow wed (and later famously " consciously uncoupled" from) Coldplay singer Chris Martin before tying the knot with writer Brad Falchuck in 2018; Pitt was married to Jennifer Aniston from 2000 to 2005 and started a family with Angelina Jolie, whom he dated for nine years before marrying in 2014 and splitting up in 2016.

From their first impressions of each other to their engagement, their split and where things stand now, here's a complete timeline of Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's relationship.

1994: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow meet and start dating on the set of

Sparks flew quickly after the actors first met while filming David Fincher's cult-favorite thriller Seven, which sees Paltrow as Pitt's doomed wife.

1994: Brad Pitt says he "knew immediately" that he wanted to be with Gwyneth Paltrow

Reflecting on his first impression of the actress to Rolling Stone in 1997, Pitt revealed, "I knew immediately, I'll tell you that much." He said, "I got within 10 feet of her, and I got goofy. I couldn't talk."

1994: Gwyneth Paltrow develops a "crush" on Brad Pitt

Calling herself "oblivious," Paltrow later told the Los Angeles Times that she didn't pick up on Pitt's interest in her right away. ​​"I wouldn't know if somebody was flirting with me. When Brad and I met, he says, it was obvious that he liked me and that I was an idiot," she told the outlet in August 1996. "But I had no idea. I thought he was just really friendly."

Laughing, she added, "And then I started getting a crush on him. I'm like, 'Are you insane? You can't get a crush on Brad Pitt. Get hold of yourself.' " She continued, "It's funny to think back into that mind now. Now it's so different."

April 26, 1995: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow make one of their first red carpet appearances together

The pair jetted off to London for Pitt's Legends Of The Fall UK Premiere after party at Kensington Roof Gardens in April 1995. The red carpet appearance marked one of their first major public outings together.

May 1995: Brad Pitt confronts Harvey Weinstein on Gwyneth Paltrow's behalf

In 2017, Paltrow added her name to a long list of women who have accused movie mogul Harvey Weinstein of sexual harassment in a New York Times report.

The following May, Paltrow elaborated on the incident on Howard Stern's SiriusXM Radio show, explaining, "We had one incident in a hotel room where he tried to make a pass at me." She was starring in his movie Emma and dating Pitt at the time.

Paltrow immediately told her boyfriend about it - and in response, Pitt confronted Weinstein. "I told him right away and I was very shaken by the whole thing," she told Stern. "We were at the opening of Hamlet on Broadway. Harvey was there and Brad Pitt - it was like the equivalent of throwing him against the wall, energetically."

"He said, 'If you ever make her feel uncomfortable again, I'll kill you,' " she recalled Pitt telling Weinstein. "Or something like that."

"It was so fantastic," she continued. "He leveraged his fame and power to protect me at a time when I didn't have fame or power yet."

May 1995: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow vacation in St. Barts

The globe-trotting pair next took a romantic 10-day getaway to the Caribbean - where they were harassed by paparazzi who used a telescopic lens to snap nude photos of them. Pitt later sued magazine over republishing the private photos.

January 21, 1996: Brad Pitt calls Gwyneth Paltrow his "angel" at the Golden Globes

During his acceptance speech for best supporting actor for his performance in 12 Monkeys in 1996, Pitt saved the best for last, thanking his costars, family, friends and "especially the love o' my life," he said. "My angel, Gwyneth Paltrow."

August 1996: Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Pitt attend a screening of at the White House

Paltrow was honored by President Bill Clinton with a screening of her movie Emma, the film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel. "It was the experience of a lifetime," said Pitt, who accompanied her, according to Valerie Milano's 2013 biography Gwyneth Paltrow. "Obviously, I'm proud of her."

August 21, 1996: Gwyneth Paltrow says she and Brad Pitt are "the best of friends"

Speaking to the , Paltrow opened up about her relationship with Pitt, revealing, "I'm in a very happy relationship. We're the best of friends. We go out on a date together. We go to the movies. I make dinner. We go out to dinner. We have friends over."

While acknowledging the public's interest in her private life, she added that that was as much detail as she was willing to share. "Beyond that, I don't know what else people expect me to say," she said. "I'm not going to sit down with a writer and divulge intimate and private things."

December 1996: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow get engaged in Argentina

After two years together, Pitt popped the question while filming Seven Years in Tibet on location in Argentina. Paltrow was by his side for the entirety of the months-long trip and returned with a ring on her finger.

"Gwennie was with me the whole time [in Argentina]. It was excellent. You put in a hard day, then you come home, and ... there she is," Pitt reflected to Rolling Stone the following April.

December 25, 1996: Brad Pitt introduces Gwyneth Paltrow to his family

After his proposal - which he described to Entertainment Tonight as "one of the greatest moments" of his life - Pitt took Paltrow home to Missouri, where she met his mom, a school counselor named Jane, and his dad, Bill Pitt. To celebrate their pending nuptials, the family grabbed dinner together at the local Red Lobster, PEOPLE reported at the time.

Soon after getting engaged, the Sliding Doors star told that she and Pitt hadn't made the choice to tie the knot lightly.

​​"I take the institution extremely seriously. There are no divorces in my family either - and in his either, so this is not something - we've been together for quite some time, so this is not a rash decision," she said.

Pitt also spoke to ET about his future with Paltrow. "I guess I'm gonna be a dad with a lot of kids," he said, adding he "better be a good one."

March 13, 1997: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow debut matching haircuts

The couple made fashion history when they arrived at the 1997 premiere of The Devil's Own in New York City with coordinating cuts.

"Awww, matching haircuts!" Paltrow said when looking back at some of her most iconic hair moments in an Instagram video promoting Goop's Restore + Shine Hair.

"We went to the same stylist for the cut. [Celebrity hairstylist] Chris McMillan cut both of our hair like this," she revealed in the 2021 clip.

March 29, 1997: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow take a romantic getaway to Paris

The couple were photographed taking a romantic stroll along the Seine River while vacationing in Paris. In one shot, Pitt plants a kiss on the side of Paltrow's head.

April 3, 1997: Brad Pitt says he "can't wait" to marry Gwyneth Paltrow

In a Rolling Stone profile, Pitt gushed about his future with his fiancée. "I can't wait, man," he told the outlet of tying the knot. "Walk down the aisle, wear the ring, kiss the bride. Oh, it's going to be great. Marriage is an amazing thing. And what a compliment: 'You're the one I want to spend the rest of my life with,' you know? Because I'm only going to do it once."

June 16, 1997: Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow split

Six months after announcing their engagement, Hollywood's golden couple shocked fans with their split. Pitt's publicist Cindy Guagenti broke the news to the New York Post: "They have been broken up for a couple of weeks now," she said. "It's not because of any one specific event."

A source close to the actors denied rumors of infidelity, saying, "It's a real relationship with real problems. This is not about any third party. This is absolutely between the two of them."

1997: Brad Pitt drops out of starring opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in

The pair were scheduled to share the screen together for the first time since Seven in Duets, directed by Paltrow's father. Ultimately, Pitt was replaced by Scott Speedman (another rumored flame of Paltrow's) in the 2000 film.

1998: Gwyneth Paltrow breaks her silence on her split from Brad Pitt

One year after splitting from Pitt, the Oscar winner shut down speculation that there was any mysterious reason for their breakup.

"People are, like, obsessed with knowing why," Paltrow said, according to Entertainment Weekly. "I think, What do you mean, why? When two people aren't supposed to be together, they're not supposed to be together."

October 9, 2003: Gwyneth Paltrow blames herself for her and Brad Pitt's breakup

Paltrow reflected on being "very upset for a long, long time" about the split five years after ending things with Pitt. During an interview with Diane Sawyer, Paltrow claimed she was "a mess" during their relationship and that she "felt really responsible" for its untimely end.

"I'm so lucky that I spent time with Brad, somebody who was such a good person! Especially when I was, like, such a mess," she said.

"My kind of internal stuff really tripped up that whole relationship," she continued. "And I felt really responsible, and also like I was the architect of my own misery ... I just made a big mess out of it."

She added that the pair had reached a friendly accord. "We're able to sort of see each other and smile and wish each other well," Paltrow said.

January 14, 2015: Gwyneth Paltrow says Brad Pitt "was too good for me"

Looking back on ending her engagement to Pitt, Paltrow partially blames their split on her age.

"I think I was a kid and I wasn't ready. He was too good for me," the Country Strong star said during a 2015 appearance on The Howard Stern Show. "I honestly do think I was too young and didn't know what I was doing."

She added, "I mean I was 22 when we met and it's taken me until 40 to get my head out of my ass. You can't make a decision when you're 22 years old."

August 30, 2017: Gwyneth Paltrow says she "f- up" her relationship with Brad Pitt

During an appearance on the Girlboss Radio with Sophia Amoruso podcast, Paltrow opened up about being at her "potentially most vulnerable and f- up" when it comes to her romantic relationships.

"I've f-- up so many relationships, so many," she said. "It's taken me a lot of, a lot of work to get to the place where I have a good romantic relationship," she shared (at the time, Paltrow had been dating now-husband Falchuck for two years). She then referenced her past romance with Pitt, adding, "I f-- that up, Brad!"

September 18, 2019: Brad Pitt addresses defending Gwyneth Paltrow against Harvey Weinstein

During a conversation with CNN's Christiane Amanpour, Pitt was asked to recall the moment when he confronted Weinstein after the producer "made a pass" at Paltrow while she and Pitt were dating.

​​"At that moment, I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground and that's how we confronted things," Pitt explained.

"I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen further because she was going to do two films [with Weinstein]," he added.

January 7, 2020: Gwyneth Paltrow says there's no "bad blood" between her and Brad Pitt

The Goop CEO ​​is famously on good terms with nearly all of her exes, from ex-fiancé Pitt to ex-husband Chris Martin. In a Harper's Bazaar February cover story, she spoke out about keeping her relationships amicable after a split, noting, "I'm friendly with Brad Pitt. I don't have any really bad blood."

June 14, 2022: Brad Pitt tells Gwyneth Paltrow it's "lovely to have you as a friend now"

The friendly exes reunited for an interview on Goop's website, in which they reflected on remaining close despite ending their romantic relationship over two decades ago.

The pair began speaking about Paltrow's late father Bruce, who died in 2002, and his close relationship with Pitt, whom he'd been excited to have as a son-in-law, "though we didn't get married, unfortunately," she reminded Pitt.

"Right," he laughed. "Oh man, everything works out, doesn't it?"

"Yes, it does. I finally found the Brad I was supposed to marry. It just took me 20 years," joked Paltrow, who said "I do" to Falchuk in September 2018.

Pitt added, "And it's lovely to have you as a friend now," to which Paltrow replied, "It is."

The pair exchanged further words of affection, with Pitt telling Paltrow, "And I do love you." She agreed, "I love you so much."

September 2022: Brad Pitt praises Gwyneth Paltrow's business

While speaking with about the launch of his skincare line, Le Domaine Skincare, Pitt cited Paltrow's business Goop as one of his influences.

"[I] love what Gwyneth [Paltrow]'s done [with Goop]. She is still a really dear friend, and she has built this empire. She has always had that in her as a curator, and it's been a lovely creative outlet for her," he said.

The actor also credited Paltrow with introducing him to good skincare habits, explaining, "In fact, come to think about it, she was probably the first one who got me to even wash my face twice a day ... maybe."

October 19, 2022: Gwyneth Paltrow's husband isn't bothered by her friendship with Brad Pitt

"My husband is probably like the least judgmental, most secure man in our relationship, so I think he totally respects [the friendship]," Paltrow told Entertainment Tonight.

She explained that the exes rekindled their friendship nearly 20 years ago - long before she married Brad Falchuck.

"I adore him. He's an amazing person, and he's a great entrepreneur, and such a creative, and such a good person. I really love him. I'm a big fan," Paltrow said of Pitt.

May 3, 2023: Gwyneth Paltrow says it was "major love at first sight" with Brad Pitt

During an appearance on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Paltrow talked candidly about her romance with Pitt.

"[It] was major, major love at first sight. It was crazy," she said, recalling meeting Pitt on the set of Seven.

The Goop founder went on to describe the night the Troy star proposed.

"We were on the balcony of this house we were renting in this little town in Argentina," she said. "I wish I remembered exactly what he said, but he proposed, it was fantastic. I was thrilled. We had talked about it, but I was surprised in the moment, I remember that. I must have been 24."

Paltrow went on to say that she was "totally heartbroken" when they broke up six months later.

"It was the right thing at that time, but it was really hard," she said. "There were a number of things that had happened, he was nine years older than me so he was far more ... he knew what he wanted, he was ready to do it and I was kind of all over the place, so it was really one of those difficult things, where I felt like, 'Oh my God, not only am I not ready, I'm not living up to the standards again.' It was a familiar refrain I felt about myself."

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Brad Pitt and Gwyneth Paltrow's Relationship: A Look Back

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Angelina Jolie spoke out about Pitt abusing her and one of their children, which led to their divorce. this news ruined the newly found family man image surrounding him instead forming concerns about his aggressive behaviour.

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Angelina Jolie accused Brad Pitt of being "emotionally and physically abusive" towards the actress and her children, according to new court filings.

Jolie claimed a series of violent incidents took place during a plane journey in September 2016, which ultimately led to her filing for a divorce.

The allegations, which Pitt strongly denied at the time, were originally made during a custody battle but have now emerged in a cross-complaint by Jolie as part of the former couple's ongoing legal dispute over the sale of their co-owned vineyard in the south of France.

While the claims were made at the time of the divorce, they were contained in a redacted FBI report.

A representative for Pitt, who was not authorised to speak publicly, strongly denied Jolie's allegations and called them "another rehash that only harms the family".

In the new documents, filed on Wednesday, the 47-year-old said Pitt "verbally attacked" her and "lunged" at one of his six children.

"Throughout the long, overnight flight, Pitt was physically and emotionally abusive to Jolie and their children, who were then between the ages of eight and 15," the documents state.

"After that flight, for her family's wellbeing, Jolie decided to file for divorce."
Pitt 'choked' one of his children before 'pouring beer and red wine' on them
They allege that Pitt's "aggressive behaviour" began before the flight, but once he boarded the plane he "choked" one of his children, and "struck another in the face" when they intervened to protect each other.

"Some of the children pleaded with Pitt to stop. They were all frightened. Many were crying," the filing states.

The documents go on to claim that Pitt continued aggressively, swearing at the family and at one point "pouring beer and red wine on the children".
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After landing, the actor allegedly stopped the family from leaving the plane and physically abused one of his children again.

Just five days after the alleged incident, Jolie filed for divorce and an FBI investigation was launched, but it was determined that no action needed to be taken against Pitt.
The ongoing Chateau Miraval dispute
A judge gave Pitt 50-50 custody of the children after a closed-door trial in which the allegations were aired.

But an appeals court subsequently disqualified the private judge for not disclosing possible conflicts of interest after a motion from Jolie, nullifying the decision.

The Oscar-winning actors were among Hollywood's most prominent couples for 12 years, and had been romantic partners for a decade when they married in 2014.

They were declared single by a judge in 2019 but a dispute over the sale of the couple's stakes in Chateau Miraval SA, a French company comprising of a home and vineyard in the south of France, continued.

Pitt previously accused Jolie of orchestrating a "hostile" takeover of the wine business that he had "carefully built" and forcing him into partnership with "a stranger with poisonous associations and intentions".

The Miraval estate is located in the village of Correns in southeastern France and was bought by the couple for around €25m (£20.8m) in 2008.

According to the legal documents, Pitt contributed 60% of the purchase price, with Jolie paying the remaining 40%.

The divorce case has not been finalised and custody and financial issues remain unresolved.

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The couple separated in 2016, with Jolie filing for a divorce just five days after the alleged abusive incident took place on a plane. The claims have now emerged in a battle over a French vineyard.

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Brad Pitt was the first person to be named the sexiest man alive twice by people magazine, in both 1995 and 2000. He has been hugely recognised for his attractive features in both his private life as well as professional life.

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This article examines the sexualisation of Pitt in many roles he's played as well as other media platforms. The use of hyper masculine presentations, such as topless imagery establishes his star image being reliant on his exterior image.

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(Critic’s Notebook) The meaning of Brad Pitt – as actor, star and supreme visual fetish – can be traced to the moment in the 1991 film “Thelma & Louise” when the c…

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in 2001, Pitt and Aniston launched their production company Plans B entertainment, which Aniston no longer shared ownership of after their divorce. this began his extension into producing as well as acting.

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Plan B Entertainment might win its second best picture Oscar in three years with The Big Short (after 2013's 12 Years a Slave), but there was a time when things were not looking so golden for the production company. The name has its roots in a shingle started by Bruce Berman at Warner Bros. after he stepped down as the studio's worldwide production head in 1996. Eighteen months later, Berman left to head Village Roadshow, and the company went dormant. In 2001, he passed the name on to Brad Grey for a production company Grey was creating at Warners with Brad Pitt and Pitt's then-wife, Jennifer Aniston.

Getting the name was simple enough, but by 2006, things had gotten complicated: As Plan B's first official release, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, hit home video and its second, The Departed, landed in theaters, Pitt and Aniston divorced (she no longer has an ownership position in the company). Grey, meanwhile, became head of Paramount and any properties he co-owned with Warners had to be renegotiated.

Just who owned Plan B's projects was "not as crystal clear as it should have been in the contract," Grey told in 2013. Against the odds, however, Plan B prospered. Charlie grossed a half-billion worldwide, and 2013's World War Z made $540 million.

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Hollywood Flashback: When Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston Launched Plan B Entertainment

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Before securing a best picture Oscar (2013's '12 Years a Slave'), the production company - created by the stars and Brad Grey in 2001 - endured a change of studio heads and the couple's very public divorce.

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The couples first appearance together on a red carpet event for the Emmy awards

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Brad Pitt & Jennifer Aniston Make The Hottest Couple On The Red Carpet At The 1999 Emmy Awards In LA

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Rumours circulated claiming Brad Pitt had cheated on his wife Jenifer Aniston with Angelina Jolie during the production of their movie Mr and Mrs smith. Although both celebrities have denied the allegations, the short timeframe between his new found love had fans continue questioning his actions.

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Upon announcing their split, Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston released a joint statement, debunking the tabloid rumors that the actor had cheated on his estranged wife. "For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media. This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration," the actors said in their statement (via Marie Claire.) However, the speculation wouldn't stop, especially after Pitt began dating Angelina Jolie, with the pair seeming to move very quickly.

Pitt and Aniston's divorce was finalized in 2005 and the following year, he welcomed his first biological child with Jolie, a daughter named Shiloh. The pair went on to welcome twins Vivienne and Knox, and shared adopted children Maddox, Pax, and Zahara. Pitt and Jolie got married in 2014, and Aniston later married Justin Theroux. Both marriages eventually ended in divorce.

In 2007, Pitt again refuted the claims that he was unfaithful to Aniston during an interview on "Larry King Live," per the New Zealand Herald. When King suggested that Pitt and Jolie became romantically involved while working together when Pitt was still married to Aniston, the actor denied the rumors. "That came after, Larry. That came after," he said of his relationship with Jolie.

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Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were once one of Hollywood's most beloved couples, but did Pitt's alleged infidelity with Angelina Jolie sink their relationship?

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The couple were dating since 2005 and got engaged in 2012. Their happy long-lasting relationship diverted the negative attention away from the cheating scandal and followed their love story instead.

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It's official: Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie engaged | CNN

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Angelina Jolie, 36, and Brad Pitt, 48, a Hollywood megastar couple since 2005, are engaged, Pitt's representative said Friday.

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He talks about moving past the chaotic period in his life and maintaining a relationship with his children. In result of passing over the events, he suggests he has "become a better man" allowing ho t to continue his star lifestyle as it was before.

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Summer is coming and, in America, that means it's time to hit the national parks. So we took Brad Pitt and photographer Ryan McGinley tumbling across three of them: The Everglades, White Sands, and Carlsbad Caverns. Then we sat down with Pitt at home in L.A. for a raw conversation about how to move forward after things fall apart.

Brad Pitt is making matcha green tea on a cool morning in his old Craftsman in the Hollywood Hills, where he's lived since 1994. There have been other properties in other places-including a château in France and homes in New Orleans and New York City-but this has always been his kids' "childhood home," he says. And even though they're not here now, he's decided it's important that he is. Today the place is deeply silent, except for the snoring of his bulldog, Jacques.

Pitt wears a flannel shirt and skinny jeans that hang loose on his frame. Invisible to the eye is that sculpted bulk we've seen on film for a quarter-century. He looks like an L.A. dad on a juice cleanse, gearing up to do house projects. On the counter sit some plated goodies from Starbucks, which he doesn't touch, and some coffee, which he does. Pitt, who exudes likability, general decency, and a sense of humor (dark and a little cockeyed), says he's really gotten into making matcha lately, something a friend introduced him to. He loves the whole ritual of it. He deliberately sprinkles some green powder in a cup with a sifter, then pours in the boiling water, whisking with a bamboo brush, until the liquid is a harlequin froth. "You're gonna love this," he says, handing me the cup.

Serenity, balance, order: That's the vibe, at least. That's what you think you're feeling in the kitchen of Brad Pitt's perfectly constructed, awesomely decorated abode. Outside, children's bikes are lined up in the rack; a blown-up dragon floatie bobs on the pool through the window. From the sideboard, with its exquisite inlay, to the vase on the mantel, the house exudes care and intention. And it carries its own stories, not just about when the Jolie-Pitts were a happy family, but also from back in the day, when Jimi Hendrix crashed here. It's said he wrote "May This Be Love" out in the grotto, with its waterfall (Waterfall / Nothing can harm me at all...). "I don't know if it's true," says Pitt, "but a hippie came by and said he used to drop acid with Jim back there, so I run with the story."

And yet Pitt is the first one to acknowledge that it's been chaos these past six months, during what he calls a "weird" time. In conversation, he seems absolutely locked in one moment and a little twitchy and forlorn in the next, having been put on a journey he didn't intend to make but admits was "self-inflicted." The unfortunate worst of it surfaced in public this past September. When he was on a flight to Los Angeles aboard a private plane, there was a reported altercation between Pitt and one of his six children, 15-year-old Maddox. An anonymous phone call was made to the authorities, which triggered an FBI investigation (ultimately closed with no charges). Five days later, his wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce. By then, everything in Pitt's world was in free fall. It wasn't just a public-relations crisis-there was a father suddenly deprived of his kids, a husband without wife. And here he is, alone, a 53-year-old human father/former husband smack in the middle of an unraveled life, figuring out how to mend it back together.

And yet the enterprise known as Brad Pitt inexorably carries on. In November, the movie Allied came out, starring Pitt and Marion Cotillard. At the premiere he was described as "gaunt," and rumors of an affair with Cotillard, and an on-set encounter between her and Jolie, had been so virulent that Cotillard took to social media to deny them, underscoring her love for her own partner, with whom she was pregnant with their second child. Meanwhile, Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment, found itself winning an astonishing third Oscar for Best Picture, with Moonlight. (Pitt spent the Oscars ceremony at a friend's house.) This month Netflix will release Pitt's War Machine, a satire based on the incidents surrounding the firing of General Stanley McChrystal. In the film, he plays a gruff, ascetic stand-in for McChrystal, General Glen McMahon, with both big-gestured comic panache and an oblivious unknowingness that seems to be a metaphor for the entire American war effort.

But on this overcast spring morning, catching Pitt at this flexion point, I would say he seems more like one of those stripped-down Samuel Beckett characters, in a blank landscape, asking big questions of a futile world. Even the generalities he employs for protection seem metaphoric. (He mentioned his estranged wife's name only once, when referencing her Cambodia movie, First They Killed My Father, telling me, "You should see Angie's film.") The loneliness of this new life, he said, is mitigated by Jacques, who spent most of the interview beached in a narcoleptic reverie at my feet, snoring and farting. ("Did you ever have the uncle that came over with emphysema, and had to sleep in your room when you were 6?" he says. "That's Jacques." And then: "Come here, boy. Friends for life!")

When I ask Pitt what gives him the most comfort these days, he says, "I get up every morning and I make a fire. When I go to bed, I make a fire, just because-it makes me feel life. I just feel life in this house."

GQ Style: Let's go back to the start. What was it like growing up where you grew up?
Brad Pitt: Well, it was Springfield, Missouri, which is a big place now, but we grew up surrounded by cornfields-which is weird because we always had canned vegetables. I never could figure that one out! Anyway, ten minutes outside of town, you start getting into forests and rivers and the Ozark Mountains. Stunning country.

Did you have a Huck Finn boyhood?
Half the time. Half the time, yeah.

How so?
I grew up in caves. We had a lot of caves, fantastic caverns. And we grew up First Baptist, which is the cleaner, stricter, by-the-book Christianity. Then, when I was in high school, my folks jumped to a more charismatic movement, which got into speaking in tongues and raising your hands and some goofy-ass shit.

So were you there for speaking in tongues?
Yeah, come on. I'm not even an actor yet, but I know... I mean the people, I know they believe it. I know they're releasing something. God, we're complicated. We're complicated creatures.

So acting came out of what you saw in these revival meetings?
Well, people act out. But as a kid, I was certainly drawn to stories-beyond the stories that we were living and knew, stories with different points of view. And I found those stories in film, especially. Different cultures and lives so foreign to mine. I think that was one of the draws that propelled me into film. I didn't know how to articulate stories. I'm certainly not a good orator, sitting here telling a story, but I could foster them in film.

I remember going to a few concerts, even though we were told rock shows are the Devil, basically. Our parents let us go, they weren't neo about it. But I realized that the reverie and the joy and exuberance, even the aggression, I was feeling at the rock show was the same thing at the revival. One is Jimmy Swaggart and one is Jerry Lee Lewis, you know? One's God and one's Devil. But it's the same thing. It felt like we were being manipulated. What was clear to me was "You don't know what you're talking about-"

And it didn't fuck you up?
No, it didn't fuck me up-it just led to some eating questions at a young age.

But then, in War Machine, you find the little gesture that makes the Glen McMahon character ours. Like the way he runs, which is hilarious.
The run to me was important because it was about the delusion of your own grandeur, not knowing what you really look like. All pencil legs, you know. Not being able to connect reality to this facade of grandeur.

Have you ever felt the need to be more political?
I can help in other ways. I can help by getting movies out with certain messages. I've got to be moved by something-I can't fake it. I grew up with that Ozarkian mistrust of politics to begin with, so I just do better building a house for someone in New Orleans or getting certain movies to the screen that might not get made otherwise.

You're good at playing that kind of character, the one that doesn't have a truly accurate vision of himself.
It makes me laugh. Any of my foibles are born from my own hubris. Always, always. Anytime. I famously step in shit-at least for me it seems pretty epic. I often wind up with a smelly foot in my mouth. I often say the wrong thing, often in the wrong place and time. Often. In my own private Idaho, it's funny as shit. I don't have that gift. I'm better speaking in some other art form. I'm trying to get better. I'm really trying to get better.

You've played characters in pain. What is pain, emotional and physical?
Yeah, I'm kind of done playing those. I think it was more pain tourism. It was still an avoidance in some way. I've never heard anyone laugh bigger than an African mother who's lost nine family members. What is that? I just got R&B for the first time. R&B comes from great pain, but it's a celebration. To me, it's embracing what's left. It's that African woman being able to laugh much more boisterously than I've ever been able to.

"For me this period has been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street."

When did you have that revelation? What have you been listening to?
I've been listening to a lot of Frank Ocean. I find this young man so special. Talk about getting to the raw truth. He's painfully honest. He's very, very special. I can't find a bad one.

And of great irony to me: Marvin Gaye's Here, My Dear [Gaye's touchstone album about divorce]. And that kind of sent me down a road.

Intense.
But beautiful-and quite honest.... You know, I just started therapy. I love it, I love it. I went through two therapists to get to the right one.

About These Parks: To choose the locations for this summertime celebration of America's national parks, Brad Pitt, Ryan McGinley, and GQ Style all collaborated on potential destinations. Pitt requested the lunar dunes of White Sands National Monument. Ryan McGinley had previous experience shooting in the underground labyrinths of Carlsbad Caverns National Park. And we nominated the swamps of Everglades National Park. Then we came together and covered all three over a stretch of eight days in March.

Do you think if the past six months hadn't happened you'd be in this place eventually? That it would have caught up with you?
I think it would have come knocking, no matter what.

People call it a midlife crisis, but this isn't the same-
No, this isn't that. I interpret a midlife crisis as a fear of growing old and fear of dying, you know, going out and buying a Lamborghini. [pause] Actually-they've been looking pretty good to me lately! [laughs]

There might be a few Lamborghinis in your future!
"I do have a Ford GT," he says quietly. [laughs] I do remember a few spots along the road where I've become absolutely tired of myself. And this is a big one. These moments have always been a huge generator for change. And I'm quite grateful for it. But me, personally, I can't remember a day since I got out of college when I wasn't boozing or had a spliff, or something. Something. And you realize that a lot of it is, um-cigarettes, you know, pacifiers. And I'm running from feelings. I'm really, really happy to be done with all of that. I mean I stopped everything except boozing when I started my family. But even this last year, you know-things I wasn't dealing with. I was boozing too much. It's just become a problem. And I'm really happy it's been half a year now, which is bittersweet, but I've got my feelings in my fingertips again. I think that's part of the human challenge: You either deny them all of your life or you answer them and evolve.

Was it hard to stop smoking pot?
No. Back in my stoner days, I wanted to smoke a joint with Jack and Snoop and Willie. You know, when you're a stoner, you get these really stupid ideas. Well, I don't want to indict the others, but I haven't made it to Willie yet.

I'm sure he's out there on a bus somewhere waiting for you. How about alcohol-you don't miss it?
I mean, we have a winery. I enjoy wine very, very much, but I just ran it to the ground. I had to step away for a minute. And truthfully I could drink a Russian under the table with his own vodka. I was a professional. I was good.

So how do you just drop it like that?
Don't want to live that way anymore.

What do you replace it with?
Cranberry juice and fizzy water. I've got the cleanest urinary tract in all of L.A., I guarantee you! But the terrible thing is I tend to run things into the ground. That's why I've got to make something so calamitous. I've got to run it off a cliff.

Do you think that's a thing?
I do it with everything, yeah. I exhaust it, and then I walk away. I've always looked at things in seasons, compartmentalized them, I guess, seasons or semesters or tenures or...

Metaphors are my life.
You strip down to the foundation and break out the mortar. I don't know. For me this period has really been about looking at my weaknesses and failures and owning my side of the street. I'm an asshole when it comes to this need for justice. I don't know where it comes from, this hollow quest for justice for some perceived slight. I can drill on that for days and years. It's done me no good whatsoever. It's such a silly idea, the idea that the world is fair. And this is coming from a guy who hit the lottery, I'm well aware of that. I hit the lottery, and I still would waste my time on those hollow pursuits.

That's the thing about becoming un-numb. You have to stare down everything that matters to you.
That's it! Sitting with those horrible feelings, and needing to understand them, and putting them into place. In the end, you find: I am those things I don't like. That is a part of me. I can't deny that. I have to accept that. And in fact, I have to embrace that. I need to face that and take care of that. Because by denying it, I deny myself. I am those mistakes. For me every misstep has been a step toward epiphany, understanding, some kind of joy. Yeah, the avoidance of pain is a real mistake. It's the real missing out on life. It's those very things that shape us, those very things that offer growth, that make the world a better place, oddly enough, ironically. That make us better.

Would there be art without it? Would there be any of this immense beauty that surrounds us?
Yeah-immense beauty, immense beauty. And by the way: There's no love without loss. It's a package deal.

Can you describe where you've been living-like, have you been in this house since September?
It was too sad to be here at first, so I went and stayed on a friend's floor, a little bungalow in Santa Monica. I crashed over here a little bit, my friend [David] Fincher lives right here. He's always going to have an open door for me, and I was doing a lot of stuff on the Westside, so I stayed at my friend's house on the floor for a month and a half-until I was out there one morning, 5:30, and this surveillance van pulls up. They don't know that I'm up behind a wall, and they pull up-and it's a long story-but it was something more than TMZ, because they got into my friend's computer. The stuff they can do these days.... So I got a little paranoid being there. I decided I had to pick up and come here.

"If I'm not creating something, putting it out there, then I'll just be creating scenarios of fiery demise in my mind."

So you're making stuff?
Yeah, I'm making stuff. It's something I've wanted to do for ten years.

Is the sculpting a Sisyphean thing: rolling the rock up the hill, action obliterating all thoughts? [Jacques interrupts, nuzzling]
I know you've been lonely. I know you've been lonely....

I find it the opposite. Well, I guess so, in that there's a task at hand. You have to wrap your stuff up at night and bring order back to your chaos for the next day. I find it a great opportunity for the introspection. Now you have to be real careful not to go too far that way and get cut off in that way. I'm really good at cutting myself off, and it's been a problem. I need to be more accessible, especially to the ones I love.

When you go dark, do you retreat, disconnect?
I don't know how to answer that. I certainly shield. Shield, shield, shield. Mask, escape. Now I think: That's just me.

You were talking about the Glen character in War Machine and the idea of delusion, that we have to create our own mythologies, our own stories, to explain the things we're not proud of.
At a real cost to ourselves.

"People on their deathbeds don't talk about what they obtained. They talk about their loved ones or their regrets-that seems to be the menu."

When you begin making a family, I think you hope to create another family that is some ideal mix of the best of what you had and what you feel you didn't have-
I try to put these things in front of them, hoping they'll absorb it and that it will mean something to them later. Even in this place, they won't give a shit about that little bust over there or that light. They won't give a shit about that inlay, but somewhere down the road it will mean something-I hope that it will soak in.

It's a different world, too. We know more, we're more focused on psychology. I come from a place where, you know, it's strength if we get a bruise or cut or ailment we don't discuss it, we just deal with it. We just go on. The downside of that is it's the same with our emotion. I'm personally very retarded when it comes to taking inventory of my emotions. I'm much better at covering up. I grew up with a Father-knows-best/war mentality-the father is all-powerful, super strong-instead of really knowing the man and his own self-doubt and struggles. And it's hit me smack in the face with our divorce: I gotta be more. I gotta be more for them. I have to show them. And I haven't been great at it.

Do you know, specifically, logistically when you have the kids?
Yeah. We're working at that now.

It must be much harder when visitation is uncertain-
It was all that for a while. I was really on my back and chained to a system when Child Services was called. And you know, after that, we've been able to work together to sort this out. We're both doing our best. I heard one lawyer say, "No one wins in court-it's just a matter of who gets hurt worse." And it seems to be true, you spend a year just focused on building a case to prove your point and why you're right and why they're wrong, and it's just an investment in vitriolic hatred. I just refuse. And fortunately my partner in this agrees. It's just very, very jarring for the kids, to suddenly have their family ripped apart.

That's what I was going to ask-
If anyone can make sense of it, we have to with great care and delicacy, building everything around that.

How do you tell your kids?
Well, there's a lot to tell them because there's understanding the future, there's understanding the immediate moment and why we're at this point, and then it brings up a lot of issues from the past that we haven't talked about. So our focus is that everyone comes out stronger and better people-there is no other outcome.

"I know I'm just in the middle of this thing now-not at the beginning or at the end, just smack-dab in the middle. And I don't want to dodge any of it."

What in the past week has given you immense joy? Can you feel that right now?
It's an elusive thing. It's been a more painful week than normal-just certain things have come up-but I see joy out the window, and I can see the silhouette of palms and an expression on one of my kids' faces, a parting smile, or finding some, you know, moment of bliss with the clay. You know, it's everywhere, it's got to be found. It's the laughter of the African mother in my experience-it's got to come from the blues, to get R&B. That'll be in my book.

Are you going to write a book?
No! I find writing too arduous.

But do you worry about the narrative others have written for you?
What did Churchill say? History will be kind to me: I know because I'll write it myself. I don't really care about protecting the narrative. That's when I get a bit pessimistic, I get in my oh-it-all-goes-away-anyway kind of thinking. But I know the people who love me know me. And that's enough for me.

Do you remember your dreams?
Yeah. A few months ago I was having frightening dreams and I'd consciously lie awake trying to ask, What can I get out of this? What can I learn from this? Those ceased. And now I have been having moments of joy, and you wake and realize it's just a dream, and I get a bit depressed for the moment. Just the moment, just glimpse moments of joy because I know I'm just in the middle of this thing now and I'm not at the beginning of it or at the end of it, just where this chapter is right now, just smack-dab in the middle. It's fucking in the middle of it and, you know, I just don't want to dodge any of it. I just want to stand there, shirt open, and take my hits and see, and see.

There's obviously incredible grief. This is like a death-
Yeah.

There's a process-
Yeah, I think for everyone, for the kids, for me, absolutely.

So is there an urge to try to-
The first urge is to cling on.

Then?
And then you've got a cliché: "If you love someone, set them free." Now I know what it means, by feeling it. It means to love without ownership. It means expecting nothing in return. But it sounds good written. It sounds good when Sting sings it. It doesn't mean fuck-all to me until, you know-

Until you can embody it.
Until you live it. That's why I never understood growing up with Christianity-don't do this, don't do that-it's all about don'ts, and I was like how the fuck do you know who you are and what works for you if you don't find out where the edge is, where's your line? You've got to step over it to know where it is.

For the photo shoot you went to three national parks in a week. It sounds like a boondoggle.
What's the definition of a boondoggle?

Whoa. Then White Sands?
I've never seen anything like it. I mean the dunes are so sculptural and modern and simple and vast and just incredible shapes. To see them white and reflecting white-the sky's actually darker than that ground. It's an odd, beautiful place.

And then the third?
We did Carlsbad Caverns. If we're going to do a celebrity shoot, let's make something, work with an artist, see what we come up with. It's always more interesting.

After all this, do you feel constrained as an actor in some ways?
No, I don't really think of myself much as an actor anymore. It takes up so little of my year and my focus. Film feels like a cheap pass for me, as a way to get at those hard feelings. It doesn't work anymore, especially being a dad.

On the pie chart, what is acting?
Acting would be very small slice.

Do you see yourself as having been successful?
I wish I could just change my name.

Come out as a new person?
Like P. Diddy. I can be Puffy now or-what is Snoop? Lion? I just felt like Brad was a misnomer, and now I just feel like fucking Brad.

What other name would you have put on yourself?
Nothing. When outside success comes, the thing I've enjoyed the most is when there's a personal discovery in it. But when I find it repetitious or painfully boring, it's absolute death to me.

Yeah, in high school he was the boy voted most likely to-
To feel you up. [laughs] I don't know, I guess it's back to feeling. I think I spent a lot of time avoiding feelings and building structures, you know, around feelings. And now I have no time left for that.

Oh man, that's a big question.
I know what the point is-it's communicating, it's connecting. I believe we're all cells in one body; we're all part of the same construct. Although a few of us are cancerous. It's helping others. Yeah, we help each other, that's it.

So what's on the agenda later?
I'm anxious to get to the studio. I think it was Picasso who talked about the moment of looking at the subject, and paint hitting canvas, and that is where art happens. For me I'm having a moment of getting to feel emotion at my fingertips. But to get that emotion to clay-I just haven't cracked the surface. And I don't know what's coming. Right now I know the manual labor is good for me, getting to know the expansiveness and limitations of the materials. I've got to start from the bottom, I've got to sweep my floor, I've got to wrap up my shit at night, you know?

A metaphor again. But it works.
Right now I've got to hammer my own nails.

Michael Paterniti is a GQ correspondent. This is his first piece for GQ Style.

This story appears in the Summer 2017 issue of GQ Style with the title "Monumental."

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Brad Pitt, in his first interview since his split with Angelina Jolie, opens up about love, loss, and what to do next.

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For a long time now, we have known that something bad happened between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. We may not have known the full extent of what led a former Hollywood golden couple to divorce with such animosity, but we knew it couldn't have been good. Slowly, it emerged that Pitt had allegedly laid his hands not only on Jolie but one of their children. Now, it has emerged that he allegedly 'grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her, and then grabbed her shoulders and shook her again before pushing her into the bathroom wall.' He is also accused of having 'choked one of the children and struck another in the face.' The FBI report on this incident notes that there was enough probable cause to charge Pitt for the abuse, but criminal charges were not pursued at the time, in part because the FBI wasn't certain that Jolie was supportive of the charges.

Again, we knew that Pitt had allegedly abused Jolie and at least one of his kids. The full extent of the allegations remains shocking but not surprising to those who paid attention. It's been the elephant in the room all year as Pitt has embarked on a PR campaign of self-serving egomania that rivals anything accomplished by Johnny Depp or Harvey Weinstein.

Pitt launched into his publicity clean-up almost as soon as he and Jolie split. It clearly worked. After giving plenty of interviews where he positioned himself as a former drunk who hit rock bottom but beat his demons, he went to work with big-name directors and had his name attached to a number of glossy projects that bolstered his reputation as a hot producer. He won Best Supporting Actor for his performance in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and turned his awards season into a showy parade of quippy speeches that seemed to have been written by a room full of Sorkin devotees. It served to position him as an industry darling, a true man of Hollywood, in sharp contrast to Jolie, who has always kept to the sidelines of the business and devoted herself more to humanitarian work. It barely seemed to register to many that Pitt's children hadn't been seen in public with him since the split.

The extensive press tour for Pitt's newest film, Bullet Train, was an opportunity for him to throw himself into the spotlight as a new man. Now he was 'artistic,' the kind of charmer who, gasp, wore skirts on the red carpet and seemed game for anything. He seemed looser, more fun, less embroiled in his own image as a serious artiste that he's tried to cultivate for years. Sure, he's still doing stuff like showing his not-great artwork at galleries and bigging himself up as some sort of special student of architecture, but on the red carpet, he was pushing shenanigans. Look, he's in a skirt. How novel!

The crowning moment of this tour was the already infamous profile, written, for some reason, by the author Ottessa Moshfegh. The entire piece is bizarre, an overwritten puffball of pretension that feels as though the writer had to complete it under duress. Accompanied by a consciously artsy photoshoot with a cover image designed to evoke the drowning of Ophelia, the profile is, to put it bluntly, pretentious as f**k. Pitt talks about wanting to be 'authentic' and being 'one of those creatures that speaks through art.' It's the creation of a creative Sad Boy, a 50-something Harry Styles without the pop fun or stylistic consistency. This isn't designed just to make him more sympathetic: it's crafted to make him seem Important, a true artist whose creative drive cannot be quenched. It's at least easier to push than him being an activist, especially after his absolute c**k-up over plans for housing in New Orleans. He talks a lot about himself, a contrast to Jolie, whose profiles see her working overtime to bring focus to the causes she cares about.

Pitt also worked overtime to make himself seem like the perfect ex and best friend. We saw how he spent a lot of time eagerly trying to cozy up to Jennifer Aniston and now he's made Gwyneth Paltrow his accomplice. He named her as an inspiration for his inexplicable skincare line and gave slobbering interviews describing how they still loved one another very much. It was hard not to draw contrasts with Jolie, who has always kept to herself and not paraded her friendships through the tabloids. The media has loved to strengthen this image of Jolie as a kind of loner, an outsider who sees herself as not with the Hollywood crowd. That's not exactly true. We know she has long-term friendships with non-famous people as well as those in the world of humanitarianism. The privacy with which she guards her personal life makes it easy for, say, the ex-husband to go into overdrive to portray himself as the ideal opposite. Look at how many people love him. Not like her, right?

These are classic isolation tactics. It's not enough to make yourself look good. You must make the other person seem utterly toxic. A lot of this can be seen through how sympathetic Pitt publications talk about his relationship with his children. Again, Pitt has not been photographed in public with any of his six kids since the split, even though they are frequently photographed with Jolie at events and key private moments, such as when Zahara went to college. TMZ is reporting that Jolie has 'poisoned' the children against Pitt, which is curious given that, during the Bullet Train promotions, ' sources' claimed that Pitt regularly had private dinners with his kids and that he 'has a pretty good relationship with them.' Which one is it, Brad?

One of the ways that Harvey Weinstein was able to accrue so much power was because he was seen as the undisputed king of the Oscar campaign. For most of the '90s, to be in a Miramax film was to be a future Academy Award winner in the making. His tactics were those of a bully and everyone knew it, yet for all of the hub-bub about him not 'playing fair' that surrounded each season, plenty of people stayed silent because they hoped to receive the Weinstein campaign themselves. There's a reason the full slate of allegations against him didn't emerge until he was in a professional slump.

Pitt, right now, is not at a career low. He just had a solid box office hit, launched a skincare line with blindly glowing write-ups in places like Vogue, and is a credited producer on multiple releases. Many of those films - Women Talking, - are stories about women in distress, victims of systemic abuse. The most notable of the 2022 bunch is , the dramatization of the Weinstein investigation by the New York Times. It's almost beyond parody that a man accused of abusing his wife and children would cloak himself in the role of professional ally by producing a film about an abuser who he worked with several times.

It's also up to people in my field to call bullsh*t. The trade presses shouldn't be willing to give into publicists' unreasonable demands. Is it really worth losing a glossy interview or two? Must the ceaselessly bad-faith of 'cancel culture' rear its ugly head for yet another unnecessary think-piece when some talking-head wants to defend abusers without saying the quiet bit out loud? In an industry dependent on access, perhaps we can be okay with not getting to cuddle up to millionaires once in a while. And that doesn't even get into the willingness of places like People and Us Weekly to welcome 'sources' from Pitt's camp as part of his rehabilitation campaign.

But Pitt's most effective weapon isn't a well-paid publicist or flock of big-name BFFs. It's just good old-fashioned patriarchy. You won't have to spend much time on social media before you find an assembly line of tweets declaring Angelina Jolie to be a liar, a whore, a gold-digger, a bad mother, or the next Amber Heard. TMZ, the vilest gossip site on the planet and long-time safe space for sh*tty men accused of abuse, has already started the anti-Jolie rhetoric. The site's reputation for accuracy has long been questionable but they're a big enough name to command attention and do so quickly, especially on social media. Combine that with plenty of headlines from more reputable publications all pushing the same angle to varying degrees of ferocity - Brad Good, Angelina Bad - and the agenda is clear. It barely matters that TMZ, for instance, has a long and sordid history of misogyny and victim-blaming. For those in need of ammo, they're happy to provide it.

I'm not sure we've ever lived in an age where there hasn't been a robust opposition to the vaguest possibility of feminism but it certainly feels like the '#MeToo backlash' is in full swing right now. We've been so cruelly reminded that there is no such thing as a credible victim to vast swaths of the population. A woman's word (and that of an FBI report) isn't enough, nor is that of her children. Jolie has long been public enemy number one for a subset of the general public, the ones who still call themselves Team Jennifer despite the breakup occurring well over 15 years ago. Despite being a multi-award-winning actress and director, a celebrated humanitarian, and mother of six, to some, Jolie will always be 'the homewrecker,' the acceptable target of slut-shaming. That never went away for a hell of a lot of people, and now, they're happily taken up arms against her because there's enough media furore to encourage them.

A good PR clean-up seeks to rob the viewer of context. What all of the TMZ and Page Six noise overlooks is that Jolie's allegations of abuse are part of a counterclaim in response to Pitt suing her over the same of her share in the winery Chateau Miraval. HE brought all of this to light. HE's the one dragging his ex through the courts. HE's the one who wanted Jolie to sign an NDA which would have prevented her from discussing what happened on that plane.

And he has a lot he needs to clean up. He needs to whitewash the press in time for his new movie, which has been hyped for Oscar buzz for months, as well as the numerous acclaimed dramas he's put his name to as a producer. I wonder if his team sees the sheer unbearable irony in having to smear an alleged victim of domestic abuse in order to promote a film about women uncovering systemic violence from a powerful Hollywood player. Then again, this is not an industry defined by any sense of self-awareness. So, will those around Pitt play wilful ignorance as the year goes on? Will Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan be forced to say 'no comment' when asked about Pitt? Will his co-producers have anything to say while on the promotional trail? Will the entertainment press call out the allegations and FBI statements, or will they keep their mouths shut in the hope of being able to get a few softball questions out of Pitt for a cover piece?

Pitt is playing from a well-worn handbook, a deeply effective one that has only grown more powerful as the furious hatred towards those who speak out against abuse gains a worldwide foothold. Of course, it's also not that tough to get people to hate women. I'm sure Pitt knows that.

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The whole world watched as her "perfect" marriage fell apart. Only her closest friends knew what really happened. Now, in Jennifer Aniston's first interview since she split from Brad Pitt, she spills her heart, and some tears, to Vanity Fair, sharing her shock and confusion over Pitt's liaison with Angelina Jolie, her desire for a family, and her deep, conflicting emotions (anger, hurt, exasperation, tenderness) toward the man she still loves.

When Jennifer Aniston opens the door to the Malibu bungalow she's been holed up in lately, she gives me a radiant smile and an effusive hello.

Then she bursts into tears.

We have scarcely sat down in the living room, a serene little haven simply furnished with cushy white sofas and white flowers and white candles, when her face crumples. She is instantly aghast.

"I haven't been feeling emotional lately, really I haven't," she wails, fluttering her hands like Rachel Green in distress, except that this time it isn't funny.

Other than the 24-hour security detail guarding her safety, Aniston is all alone in the modest rental where she has camped out while dealing with the end of her marriage to Brad Pitt-and its devastating aftermath, which has been far worse than the actual split. The last few months have brought an endless nightmare of hurtful headlines about her soon-to-be-ex-husband, along with blatantly fraudulent stories about herself, in the tabloids and supermarket gossip magazines. Pursued around the clock by the rabid paparazzi she refers to as "ratzies," she is ambushed even on her own deck by photographers who lurk on the beach outside her door, spying on her every move.

As she squeezes her eyes shut in an effort to stop crying, the scene provides a painful contrast with the last time we met. Little more than a year ago, I interviewed Pitt at the Beverly Hills mansion that he and Aniston had just spent two years renovating. A testament to both his passion for architecture and the couple's hopeful vision of their shared future, the beautiful old house awaited only a baby in a bassinet to complete a picture-perfect existence.

When I left, they both walked me out to my car. Their home, its windows lit and welcoming, glowed in the twilight. As we said our good-byes, Pitt and Aniston leaned together in the driveway, arms twined around each other. Her head rested trustingly on his buff chest, still pumped up from his rigorous training to play the warrior Achilles in Troy.

They seemed the most fortunate couple imaginable-two beautiful superstars who had hit the jackpot, earning not only fame and riches but also an enduring love. Their fans had long been captivated by the romance of America's Sweetheart and the Sexiest Man in the World, and now they were ready to begin a thrilling new chapter. Aniston's 10-year run on Friends was ending, and she and Pitt had vowed to start a family when her stupendously successful television series was finished.

Pitt's final words to me reinforced the impression of connubial bliss: "I'm happier than I've ever been." But the ensuing months brought an onslaught of rumors that he had gotten involved with Angelina Jolie while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Instead of the joyful announcement many had anticipated from the Pitts, there was only silence. The New Year began with photographs of the beautiful couple strolling hand in hand along the beach on Anguilla, looking relaxed and happy. Immediately the buzz shifted into rhapsodic re-appraisals of the state of their union.

And then came the oh-so-civilized announcement, on January 7, that Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were separating-that their parting was "the result of much thoughtful consideration," that it was not caused by "any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media," and that they would remain "committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another."

If Pitt had kept a low profile in the months to come, that might even have turned out to be true. Instead, the ominous drumroll of gossip began to crescendo as he and Jolie rendezvoused in exotic locales, still denying that they were an item. With the paparazzi snapping away, Pitt stepped into what looked suspiciously like a paternal role with Jolie's adopted Cambodian son, Maddox.

"It was extremely hurtful to Jen that he was seen with another woman so quickly after they were separated," says Andrea Bendewald, an actress who has been one of Aniston's closest friends since they were teenagers.

Instead of being reviled as The Other Woman, Jolie posed for pictures on an energetic round of appearances as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations-and then trumped even that public-relations bonanza by adopting another orphan, an African girl whose parents had died of AIDS. In the blink of an eye, the twice-divorced Jolie-previously known as a tattooed vixen with a taste for bisexuality, heroin, brotherly incest, mental institutions, and wearing her husbands' blood-had morphed into a globe-trotting humanitarian who seemed to be channeling Audrey Hepburn.

For the 36-year-old Aniston, who had expected to spend the past year being pregnant, the pain of watching this spectacle unfold was compounded by vicious rumors about herself. As misogynist as they were false, sensationalistic stories claimed the real reason the marriage ended was that Aniston refused to have Pitt's baby because she was so ambitious she cared only about her career.

Even now, that sexist slur makes her face darken. "A man divorcing would never be accused of choosing career over children," she says. "That really pissed me off. I've never in my life said I didn't want to have children. I did and I do and I will! The women that inspire me are the ones who have careers and children; why would I want to limit myself? I've always wanted to have children, and I would never give up that experience for a career. I want to have it all."

Aniston's intimates note acidly that Pitt could have done more to refute the mean-spirited rumor that his wife wouldn't bear his child, which reinforced the impression that he had good cause to leave her for Earth Mother Jolie. To some, this looks like sheer hypocrisy.

"When Brad and Jen were in the marriage, having a baby was not his priority-ever," says one mutual friend. "It was an abstract desire for him, whereas for Jen it was much more immediate. So is there a part of Brad that's diabolical? Did he think, I need to get out of this marriage, but I want to come out smelling like a rose, so I'm going to let Jen be cast as the ultra-feminist and I'm going to get cast as the poor husband who couldn't get a baby and so had to move on?"

As the image wars raged in the gossip media, a heartbroken Aniston retreated to her Malibu hideaway to lick her wounds in private, accompanied only by her elderly corgi-terrier mix, Norman, who spends most of his time snoring on his dog bed. Public sympathy seemed to be on her side; the Hollywood boutique Kitson reported that its "Team Aniston" T-shirts were outselling "Team Jolie" T-shirts by a margin of 25 to 1. But that was cold comfort as Aniston was assaulted by one provocation after another.

When the Pitts split up, Brad insisted he hadn't slept with Jolie, and Aniston accepted his denial. "She wasn't naïve," says Kristin Hahn, an executive at the Pitts' production company, Plan B. "She's not suggesting she didn't know there was an enchantment, and a friendship. But Brad was saying, 'This is not about another woman.'"

The moment he and Aniston separated, however, he re-emerged in what looked like a full-blown affair with Jolie. Struggling to accept a separation she never wanted, Aniston found that the "facts" she had been told kept shifting like quicksand beneath her feet. When I ask about that gracious, no-one-is-to-blame announcement of their separation, she takes a deep breath. "What we said was true-"

As I raise my eyebrows, she pauses for a moment, and then adds carefully, "-as far as I knew. We wrote it together, very consciously, and felt very good about it. We exited this relationship as beautifully as we entered it."

All Aniston wanted then was to figure out what happened; how did the happy life they'd planned drift so far off course? But everything changed on April 29, when photographs broke of Brad and Angelina frolicking on the beach with Maddox at a romantic resort in Africa. "The world was shocked, and I was shocked," she says, still bending over backward not to excoriate her ex.

But to say that this news was like pouring salt in the wound would understate its impact considerably; how about pouring molten lava into the hole where somebody ripped your heart out?

And then things got worse.

The skies over Los Angeles are uncharacteristically gray today, and the Pacific shimmers with an opalescent sheen. Although the weather is gloomy, the ocean is calm; waves lap gently at the shoreline, making a soft shushing sound that Aniston has found very soothing lately.

"That's quite a backyard, in my opinion," she says as we stand on her deck, watching the hypnotic rhythm of the waves. "Just being able to go to the water's edge and scream-"

She grins. "Not too loudly. You don't want people to think that you're crazy. But it can be very cathartic."

She is wearing a white tank top and white drawstring linen pants, with a vivid lavender cashmere cardiwrap around her to ward off the unseasonable chill. Formidably toned by yoga, her body is in superb shape, but despite her tanned skin and megawatt smile she looks fragile and wan.

She remains resolutely upbeat nonetheless, casting her current situation in the most positive light possible. "It's beautiful here; I love it," she says. "I've always wanted to have a little Malibu beach house, and it feels good. I'm enjoying simplifying things."

Although the bungalow was dark and depressing when she first saw it, a quickie makeover has transformed it into a cozy sanctuary that's far more representative of Aniston's personal taste than the showplace she and Pitt shared, where the décor seemed all hard edges and unforgiving materials. "Brad and I used to joke that every piece of furniture was either a museum piece or just uncomfortable," Aniston says. "He definitely had his sense of style, and I definitely have my sense of style, and sometimes they clashed. I wasn't so much into modern."

I mention Nicole Kidman's quip after splitting up with Tom Cruise, when she was asked what she looked forward to in her new life without the diminutive husband who had abruptly ended their marriage. "Wearing high heels again," Kidman retorted.

So I ask Aniston-who filed for divorce on March 25 and expects it to become final this fall-what she's enjoying about being on her own. "I can have a comfortable couch," she says with a wry smile.

In the tabloids and celebrity gossip magazines, the soap-opera version of her life continues to hurtle along like a runaway express train, rushing Aniston through major life stages with ludicrous speed: Jen Is Devastated! Jen Is Furious! Jen Gets Revenge! Jen Has a New Man! Jen Is Over Brad! Most of the stories are wrong. (No, Oprah didn't try to get Brad and Jen back together; no, Jen is not romantically involved with Vince Vaughn, her co-star in The Break-Up, a comedy about a separating couple who continue to live together, which they shot in Chicago over the summer.)

Other reports are just idiotically simpleminded, breathlessly advancing a plot that bears little resemblance to the long, complex, painful experience of getting over a divorce. While the tabloids insist on dividing Aniston's emotions into neat, distinct chapters, the reality is that pain and denial and anger and resignation all blur together, sometimes at the same moment-and the lengthy process of mourning is nowhere near over.

"There are many stages of grief," she says. "It's sad, something coming to an end. It cracks you open, in a way-cracks you open to feeling. When you try to avoid the pain, it creates greater pain. I'm a human being, having a human experience in front of the world. I wish it weren't in front of the world. I try really hard to rise above it."

Aniston is struggling to find a deeper meaning in the debacle. "I have to think there's some reason I have called this into my life," she says. "I have to believe that-otherwise it's just cruel."

Her friends are filled with admiration for the way she's handled the whole mess. "This woman is basically having a root canal without anesthesia, but she's really trying not to numb the pain or shove it under the rug," says Hahn. "She's grown so much, and she continues to grow on a daily basis, because every time you think, 'Well, I've dealt with this,' there's another hurdle to get over. It's a bit Job-like at the moment."

Aniston's response has been to retreat into her cocoon, "in an effort to take care of myself and my heart," she says. "I feel like I'm nesting. I love being home. I have friends that come over. My girlfriends I've had for 20 years. When things happen, the tribe gathers around and lifts you up. I've had lonely moments, sure, but I'm also enjoying being alone. There's no question it takes getting used to; I'm a partnership person, and if something happens your instinct is to share it-but you're no longer part of a couple. I definitely miss that. It's sort of like Bambi-like you're trying to learn how to walk. You're a little awkward; you stumble a little bit. The things you would do with your partner, you don't do. It's uncharted territory, but I think it's good for me to be a solo person right now. You're forced to re-discover yourself and take it to another level. If you can find a way to see the glass half full, these are the moments when you learn the most. I've had to re-introduce myself to myself in a way that's different."

She doesn't downplay the difficulties. "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well," she says. "I've got an unbelievable support team, and I'm a tough cookie.... I believe in therapy; I think it's an incredible tool in educating the self on the self. I feel very strong. I'm really proud of how I've conducted myself."

A crucial part of Aniston's strategy has been to ignore the putrid stew of rumor, speculation, and outright falsehood in the tabloid media. "It's been very important for me not to read anything, not to see anything," she says. "It's been my saving grace. That stuff is just toxic for me right now. I probably avoided a lot of suffering by not engaging in it, not reading, not watching."

She gestures toward Norman, who has roused himself for a moment to check on his mistress's whereabouts. "It's like those dog cones," she says, encircling her neck as if putting on one of the plastic cones prescribed by vets to prevent dogs from scratching their ears. "I have my imaginary dog cone on, so I don't see anything. It just allows for a much more peaceful life."

Nevertheless, as Pitt publicly flaunted the instant family he had created with Jolie, the tableaux of their newfound togetherness were humiliating. "I would be a robot if I said I didn't feel moments of anger, of hurt, of embarrassment," Aniston acknowledges.

But she tries to keep the lurid details to herself. "She is grieving, but she's taken the high road," says Bendewald. "She's mourning the death of a marriage, and she's done it very privately. She can have her moments of rage, but she doesn't want to out him, and that keeps her heart clear. She's not bad-mouthing him. She doesn't want to make him the villain and her the victim."

Indeed, Aniston vehemently rejects the interpretation that she was left for another woman. "I don't feel like a victim," she says. "I've worked with this therapist for a long time, and her major focus is that you get one day of being a victim-and that's it. Then we take responsibility for our own input. To live in a victim place is pointing a finger at someone else, as if you have no control. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. She'd say, 'Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours, and that's what we're going to focus on.' You can only clean up your side of the street."

These days, one index of recovery is the fact that Aniston's sardonic humor is resurfacing. When I tell her that my 13-year-old son is a big fan of hers, she doesn't miss a beat. "Is he single?" she asks, deadpan.

She'll toss off a crack about Pitt's startling transformation into a punky bleached blond. "Billy Idol called-he wants his look back," she murmurs with a sly smile.

By now she can even talk about those gut-wrenching photos of Jolie and Pitt in Kenya with mordant resignation rather than tears. "I can't say it was one of the highlights of my year," she says. "Who would deal with that and say, 'Isn't that sweet! That looks like fun!'? But shit happens. You joke and say, 'What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.'"

She sighs. "I feel like I've earned a superpower shield," she says. Then, afraid of sounding grandiose, she adds, "I'm not comparing my suffering to other people's suffering. Everybody has their own."

Aniston's friends were particularly horrified by W magazine's 60-page photo spread featuring Pitt and Jolie as an early-1960s-style married couple with a brood of miniature blond Brads. "You want to shake the shit out of him and say, 'Your timing sucks!'" says one. "He's made some choices that have been tremendously insensitive."

The W feature, which was entitled "Domestic Bliss," couldn't be blamed on the paparazzi; not only did Pitt conceptualize it, but he retained the international rights, so he actually profited from it. Aniston's eyes widen in surprise when I mention that last fact, and she grimaces. "I didn't know that," she says. But she refuses to indulge herself in an angry reaction. "Is it odd timing? Yeah. But it's not my life," she says. "He makes his choices. He can do-whatever. We're divorced, and you can see why."

She shakes her head in exasperation. "I can also imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it," she adds. "Brad is not mean-spirited; he would never intentionally try to rub something in my face. In hindsight, I can see him going, 'Oh-I can see that that was inconsiderate.' But I know Brad. Brad would say, 'That's art!'"

She rolls her eyes, pretending to screw something into her forehead. "There's a sensitivity chip that's missing," she says.

Aniston's friends are amazed at her willingness to give Pitt the benefit of the doubt, but they basically agree with her assessment. "I don't think he was trying to hurt Jen," says Courteney Cox, Aniston's dear friend and former co-star on Friends. "I don't think that Brad is malicious, or a liar. The W thing was his idea, but I don't think he thought that one through, about what it would look like to anyone else."

Although Aniston remains determined not to lash out, she sometimes questions her own restraint. "Why am I protecting him?" she exclaimed to one friend, only to continue with what she sees as the dignified course of action.

"I'm not interested in taking public potshots," she explains. "It's not my concern anymore. What happened to him after the separation-it's his life now. I've made a conscious effort not to add to the toxicity of this situation. I haven't retaliated. I don't want to be a part of it. I don't have a halo that I'm polishing here; everyone has their personal thoughts. But I would much rather everyone move on. I am not defined by this relationship. I am not defined by the part they're making me play in the triangle. It's maddening to me. But I had a mom who was very angry about her divorce, and made shots, and I don't want to play that out. If people are frustrated that I don't want to do that, I'm sorry. I'm figuring this out as I go along. This is my first time at this particular picnic."

As befits a storybook tale, the Pitts' marriage was the first for both of them, and some of Aniston's fondest memories are from the time they shared before the world discovered their romance. "We had so much fun falling in love," she says wistfully. "It was so private; we kept it to ourselves for so long. It was something we were really proud of."

But after the relationship became public, it was always difficult to reconcile their mythic image with the quotidian reality of their private life, which was more likely to involve watching television, ordering takeout, and having close friends over than swanning around on red carpets.

"We were put on a pedestal, but we were just a couple like anybody else," Aniston says. "When we were home, we'd watch the shows we loved, and one time there was this program called It's Good to Be Brad and Jen. It was all about us going to Scotland and Greece and having our matching S.U.V.'s, and it wasn't my life-I'd never even been to some of these places, but even I got sucked in. We're sitting there saying, 'Yeah, boy, it sure must be good to be Brad and Jen!' So is it our responsibility to demystify this, to say, 'This is not what it's like-it's not that fabulous, not that great'? There's no doubt our life is fortunate, but ... "

But even golden couples struggle with the formidable challenges of marriage. "It's like the ebb and flow of every relationship," Aniston says. "It's hard; it gets easy; it gets fun again. What's hard to sustain is some ideal that it's perfect. That's ridiculous. What's fantastic about marriage is getting through those ebbs and flows with the same person, and looking across the room and saying, 'I'm still here. And I still love you.' You re-meet, reconnect. You have marriages within marriages within marriages. That's what I love about marriage. That's what I want in marriage. It's unfortunate, but we live in a very disposable society. Those moments where it looks like 'Uh-oh, this isn't working!'-those are the most important, transformative moments. Most couples draw up divorce papers when they're missing out on an amazing moment of deepening and enlightenment and connection."

She sighs heavily and turns away to light a Merit cigarette. "That's not Brad's view of it," she says, glum again. "We believe in different things, I guess. You can't force a relationship, even if it's your view of how you would like it to be conducted. Obviously two people leave a relationship because there's a different thought pattern happening. My goal is to try and achieve a very deep, committed relationship. That's what I'm interested in, but it's someone's prerogative to be or not to be in or out of a relationship."

"I think Jen wanted to work it out, and I don't think he wanted to work it out," Andrea Bendewald observes. "I don't think he knew what he wanted."

Nevertheless, Aniston has only kind words about her marriage. "I still feel so lucky to have experienced it. I wouldn't know what I know now if I hadn't been married to Brad," she says. "I love Brad; I really love him. I will love him for the rest of my life. He's a fantastic man. I don't regret any of it, and I'm not going to beat myself up about it. We spent seven very intense years together; we taught each other a lot-about healing, and about fun. We helped each other through a lot, and I really value that. It was a beautiful, complicated relationship. The sad thing, for me, is the way it's been reduced to a Hollywood cliché-or maybe it's just a human cliché. I have a lot of compassion for everyone going through this."

As for what went wrong, Aniston rejects any simplistic explanation. "It's just complicated," she says. "Relationships are complicated, whether they're friendships or business relationships or parent relationships. I don't think anybody in a marriage gets to a point where they feel like 'We've got it!' You're two people continually evolving, and there will be times when those changes clash. There are all these levels of growth-and when you stop growing together, that's when the problems happen."

Friends say that it was always difficult for Aniston and Pitt to maintain the intimacy they craved while juggling their demanding work schedules, which often required long separations. Those tensions notwithstanding, Aniston believed her marriage was the real thing. "We both did," she says.

So what happened? "I think-it changed," she says haltingly. "We both changed."

She sighs again. "You do the best you can, and I think we did. We did the best we could."

Both of them? She looks me straight in the eye. "Both parties," she says.

But nagging questions remain about Pitt's conduct during the months leading up to their separation. "She was committed to the marriage," says Bendewald. "He wanted to figure out who he was and what he wanted, but he seemed to want to do it without being married. She wanted him to figure out what he wanted and stay married. He didn't think he could do that, so at that point she was like, 'O.K., go figure it out.'"

Throughout that period, Pitt insisted that his relationship with Jolie was not the cause of his marital discontent, but his actions since the separation have suggested otherwise.

"I just don't know what happened," Aniston admits. "There's a lot I don't understand, a lot I don't know, and probably never will know, really. So I choose to take away with me as much integrity and dignity and respect for what that relationship was as I can. I feel as if I'm trying to scrounge around and pick up the pieces in the midst of this media circus."

Does she buy Brad's claim that he didn't cheat on her before they separated? "I choose to believe my husband," Aniston says. "At this point, I wouldn't be surprised by anything, but I would much rather choose to believe him."

Their friends are still trying to parse what happened with Jolie. "I don't think he started an affair physically, but I think he was attracted to her," says Courteney Cox, who vacationed with her husband, David Arquette, and the Pitts on Anguilla just before they announced their separation. "There was a connection, and he was honest about that with Jen. Most of the time, when people are attracted to other people, they don't tell. At least he was honest about it. It was an attraction that he fought for a period of time."

He may have been fighting it, but Pitt virtually checked out of his marriage as soon as he began working with Jolie, according to Aniston's intimates. "He was gone," says one.

Aniston has met Jolie only once, when she took a passing opportunity to say hello. "It was on the lot of Friends -I pulled over and introduced myself," Aniston recalls. "I said, 'Brad is so excited about working with you. I hope you guys have a really good time.'"

But he soon became emotionally unavailable to his wife, at a time when she needed him desperately. Pitt's withdrawal coincided with the end of Friends, which Aniston experienced as a huge loss. "That was really painful. It was a family, and I don't do great with families splitting up," says Aniston, who was deeply wounded by her parents' bitter divorce, which happened when she was 9. "It was hard to have such a wonderful constant in your life, a place to go every day, and then all of a sudden it's not there."

When she reached out for her husband's support, she didn't get it. "He just wasn't there for me," she says.

To the amazement of Aniston's friends, Pitt didn't even show up for the final taping of Friends.

"He was working," she says, still defending him, even though movie stars have been known to request changes in a shooting schedule to accommodate events that are important to them.

Although she isn't talking to Pitt these days, Aniston remains in regular contact with his mother, whom she loves dearly, and she doesn't rule out a better relationship with Brad in the future. "I really do hope that someday we can be friends again," she says.

She certainly doesn't regret her four-and-a-half-year marriage-not even the million-dollar wedding with 50,000 flowers, a 40-member gospel choir, a Greek bouzouki band, and fireworks exploding over the Pacific. ("It was fantastic!" she says.) But she does have other regrets.

"There's a lot I would probably do differently," she says. "I'd take more vacations-getting away from work, enjoying each other in different environments. But there was always something preventing it; either he was working or I was."

She made more profound mistakes as well. "I wouldn't give over so much of myself, which I did at times," she admits. "It was that thing about being a nurturer; I love taking care of people, and I definitely put his needs before mine sometimes. It's seamless; somewhere along the way, you sort of lose yourself. You just don't know when it happens. It's such an insidious thing, you don't really see where it started-and where you ended. There's no one to blame but yourself. I've always been that way in relationships, even with my mom. It's not the healthiest. I feel like I've broken the pattern now. I'll never let myself down like that again. I feel like my sense of self is being strengthened because of it."

Aniston's unhappy family history colored her experience of marriage from the outset. "I come from a fighting family, and I had a tough time arguing," she says. "Fighting scared me. I wouldn't speak up for myself. That's something I've learned; I will always speak my mind."

In recent months, the process of healing from the breakup with Brad has also created a new openness to healing relations with her mother. Their estrangement began nearly a decade ago, when Nancy Aniston gossiped about Jennifer on a television show, and worsened when she tried to cash in on Jennifer's fame by writing an appalling book called From Mother and Daughter to Friends. Jennifer severed all contact, but she is now re-assessing their relationship.

"We've exchanged messages," she says. "Our doors are open. We're taking baby steps. It's a good thing."

Although Aniston incurred criticism for distancing herself from her mother, who did not attend her wedding, she offers no apologies. "I feel pretty good about the choices I've made. The choice of not speaking to Mom for a while-that's ours. Nobody else has to understand it. The same thing with Brad and myself," she says. "I wouldn't change my childhood, I wouldn't change my heartaches, I wouldn't change my successes. I wouldn't change any of it, because I really love who I am, and am continuing to become.

"Besides, it's all in the past," she adds. "This doesn't kill you. You move on. You can't let the devastation of a divorce take over and win-let it make you this bitter, closed-off, angry, skeptical person. Then you're just falling victim to it. You don't want to shut your heart down. You don't want to feel that when a marriage ends, your life is over. You can survive anything. Compared to what other people are surviving out there in the world, this is not so bad, in the grand scheme of things. Human endurance is unbelievable. Think of what mothers of soldiers have to rise above! Everything's relative."

She looks down at her firm, fit body. "Nothing's broke," she says.

Catching the quizzical look on my face, she concedes, "Maybe a little bruised."

A few weeks later, on a stiflingly hot day in Chicago, Aniston and I are sitting in her hotel suite looking out on Lake Michigan, which is studded with little white boats. I've just told her about the gossip magazine that says she's registered here as "Mrs. Smith." The report claims Aniston is taking perverse pleasure in making hotel staffers address her as Mrs. Smith, even though they know perfectly well who she is.

The only problem with this amusing tidbit is that it's not true. "I wish I'd thought of it," says Aniston, who is registered under an entirely different, although equally humorous, name.

Despite her vow of abstinence, she succumbed to a celebrity magazine the other evening-and immediately regretted it. "I feel like I've fallen off the wagon," she moans. Unfortunately, the first publication she picked up featured an insult from Kimberly Stewart, Rod's party-girl daughter. "She said I'm homely," Aniston says. "It literally ruined my night. I got my feelings very hurt, actually. That was my instant Karma."

She has always fretted about her appearance, although that is often hard for others to believe. Posing for her Vanity Fair cover shoot, Aniston was equally fetching in French-dance-hall-girl black stockings and in a half-open oversize shirt that evoked every man's favorite just-rolled-out-of-bed look. With her tousled hair, cobalt-blue eyes, and dazzling smile, she seemed the ultimate adorable sexpot. Far from pining away in seclusion, she appeared to be sending a far more spirited message-like "Eat your heart out, Brad!"

But Aniston has never been able to reconcile the glamorous Jen on page or screen with the self-doubting woman she sees in the mirror, and the current tabloid coverage has exacerbated that gap. "It's literally two different people-the real me, and the 'Jen' they write about, 'fighting back,' 'getting revenge'-everything I couldn't be farther from wanting to do," she says. "So I'm back on the wagon."

When she arrived in Chicago to film The Break-Up, the gossip media, frantic for a new development, immediately plunged her into a torrid romance with her co-star, Vince Vaughn. This affair apparently does not exist.

"I adore Vince Vaughn, but I'm not going out with Vince Vaughn," she says. "I barely know the guy. We've exchanged a wine-and-cheese basket for the start of the movie, and we've gone out to dinner with the director and other people. We've got to get to know each other."

But is Aniston seeing him-or anyone else? "Nobody," she says firmly. "I like a lot of people, but I am sooo not 'in like' with anybody. I am really enjoying being by myself. I'm excited that I know there's somebody out there for me, but I am absolutely in no rush. This is all very fresh, very new. This was a seven-year relationship that was very dear, very complicated, very special. I need to honor it."

Aside from her initial flurry of tears, Aniston remains calm and thoughtful through hours of conversation with me over the course of several weeks. But there is one final topic to be addressed, and it's the most hurtful of all. The rumor that Jolie is pregnant with Pitt's child has swept around the world; some reports even have her finishing her first trimester.

When I ask Aniston about that, she looks as if I've stabbed her in the heart. Her eyes well up and spill over. Several long minutes go by as the tears keep rolling down her cheeks; she bites her lip, seemingly unable to speak. Finally she shakes her head; this subject is simply too excruciating to discuss.

"My worst fear is that Jen will have to face them having a baby together soon, because that would be beyond beyond painful," says Kristin Hahn.

Fortunately, there are many other things to keep Aniston occupied these days. Although she took some time off after Friends ended, she has since shot several movies, and the coming months will bring a series of premieres. First up is Derailed, a thriller starring Aniston and Clive Owen as two married strangers who meet on a train and arrange a hotel-room tryst-only to have an armed man burst in, rape the woman, and beat the man and blackmail him, setting off a horrific chain of events. The film will make adultery look about as appealing as Fatal Attraction did, according to Aniston: "It will be one of those movies you leave and say, 'The affair thing? Maybe not!'"

Then there's Rumor Has It, whose plot revolves around a young reporter's conviction that The Graduate was based on her family, and that she herself is adopted. Mark Ruffalo plays her fiancé, and Shirley MacLaine is the Mrs. Robinson character, with Kevin Costner as the Benjamin Braddock who may or may not be Aniston's father.

Yet another upcoming film is Friends with Money, in which Aniston portrays a pothead maid whose friends-played by Catherine Keener, Joan Cusack, and Frances McDormand-are all married and far more successful in life.

Aniston is also re-evaluating her future role at Plan B, the production company she formed with Pitt and Brad Grey, who has since become chairman of Paramount. Pitt is now assuming the lead role at Plan B, but Aniston says she will still produce movies through the company.

"I'm excited about what the future holds," she says. "I'm not a fortune-teller; I have no idea how it will play out. People say, 'What are you going to do?' I don't know. I kind of love that not knowing."

She is trying to outgrow some youthful illusions. Prince Charming let her down, and Aniston no longer believes in one true love. "I think there are many people, many soul mates," she says.

But she still has faith in the redeeming power of love itself. "It's out there," she says. "It will happen. There's an amazing man that's wandering the streets right now who's the father of my children. In five years I would hope to be married and have a kid. I still believe in marriage 100 percent. When I hear people say that they would never do it again, it's like cutting off your nose to spite your face. Why would you ever close your heart down?"

She gives me a sheepish smile. "Maybe it's a fairy tale, but I believe in happily ever after."

Leslie Bennetts is a Vanity Fair contributing editor.

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Hold onto your bucket hats: Sony's action-thriller " Bullet Train " crossed $100 million at the domestic box office.

It's an impressive milestone in post-COVID times for an original movie that doesn't involve marquee comic book heroes or intergalactic adventures. It helps, of course, that a bankable actor like Brad Pitt stars in the film, as a heavily therapized assassin named Ladybug.

On Friday, "Bullet Train" reached $101 million in domestic ticket sales, making it only the 14th release this year to hit that benchmark. With another $130 million at the international box office, the film has now earned $231 million in global ticket sales to date.

"Bullet Train" continues an encouraging box office streak for original movies. In North America, it's not just the superheroes who are saving the day... and theaters. Director Baz Luhrmann's musical biopic "Elvis" grossed $150 million, Jordan Peele's sci-fi thriller "Nope" has earned $123 million, while the Blumhouse chiller "The Black Phone" and Sony's literary adaptation "Where the Crawdads Sing" each have amassed $89 million - impressive tallies considering those films were all released in the height of summer blockbuster season.

In terms of newer offerings, "The Woman King" with Viola Davis ($41 million to date) and director Olivia Wilde's "Don't Worry Darling" ($27 million to date) have been posting better-than-expected ticket sales as well.

"Bullet Train" opened to $30 million in early August and held as the No. 1 movie in the country for two weeks in a row. Despite mixed reviews, the film remained in the top five on box office charts for seven weeks, benefiting from a month without too many high-profile new releases.

The R-rated "Bullet Train" didn't come cheap, so it's a good thing the movie managed to remain a big-screen draw throughout the fall. Sony spent $90 million to produce the film, plus the tens of millions to promote it.

David Leitch, best known for "Deadpool 2," directed "Bullet Train," which was adapted from Kōtarō Isaka's Japanese novel "Maria Beetle." Pitt stars as an assassin on the verge of retirement, who is tasked with collecting a briefcase on a bullet train. What he doesn't initially realize is that there are other trained killers on board looking to accomplish a similar mission. Pitt co-stars with Joey King, Brian Tyree Henry, Michael Shannon, Sandra Bullock and Benito A. Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny.

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Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt after learning he was cheating on her with his sexy co-star, a well-placed source told The Post on Tuesday.

"She hired a private eye because she felt that he was fooling around with her on the set, and it turns out, he was. And that was the final straw,'' the source said.

Pitt, 52, had been rumored to have been cozying up to his "Allied'' co-star Marion Cotillard, 40, for months during the pair's filming of the World War II drama in London.

The PI discovered that Pitt was cheating on his wife of two years with Cotillard - while also partying like a single guy on a mission, the source said.

"The atmosphere [off-set] was full of hard drugs and Russian hookers, and Angie was told Brad got caught up in it,'' the source said.

"He's in the throes of some insane midlife crisis, and Angie is fed up."

But a source close to Cotillard denied the Pitt affair rumors and insisted she is still with her long-term partner, French actor and director Guillaume Canet.

"They are still very much together. They have been a couple since 2007 and have one child but have never married,'' the source said of Cotillard and Canet.

The source could not confirm French reports that Cotillard is pregnant with her second child with Canet.

Jolie and Pitt laugh at the Academy Awards in Los Angeles on Feb. 22, 2009.

Jolie's manager, Geyer Kosinski, said Tuesday, "Angelina will always do what's in the best interest to protect her children.

"She appreciates everyone's understanding of their need for privacy at this time,'' he told E! News.

Pitt added in a statement to People magazine, "I am very saddened by this, but what matters most now is the well-being of our kids.

"I kindly ask the press to give them the space they deserve during this challenging time."

In addition to her husband's alleged affair, Jolie, 41, was sick and tired of constantly sparring over their lifestyle, another source told The Post.

She has increasingly wanted to quit Hollywood in favor of devoting herself full-time to traveling the globe for her humanitarian work, while Pitt prefers Tinseltown and its parties, the source said.

Jolie spoke before the United Nations in Manhattan just this past Friday to ask them to help millions of Syrian refugees.

"The older she gets, the more serious she becomes, and she is sick of the Hollywood thing,'' the second source said.

"He wants to make movies. She doesn't. It's a fundamental difference. It's how you live your life.''

Making matters worse, Pitt is closer to Jolie's famous actor dad, Jon Voight, than she is, the source said.

"Jon's a Hollywood guy, and she's been estranged. Brad hangs out with her father more than she does,'' the source said.

Another source told TMZ that Jolie believes that her hubby's drinking and pot-smoking is affecting their kids.

Add to that his "anger problem," and the mom of six said enough is enough, the source told the website.

Jolie filed for divorce Monday, citing "irreconcilable differences."

She is seeking physical custody of the couple's kids, TMZ said. She doesn't want Pitt to have joint physical custody, just joint legal custody. He would get visitation, according to her filing.

Jolie is not seeking spousal support, the website said.

Brangelina's French chateau, Miraval - where the couple married in August 2014 - has been quietly on the market for a few months, and locals were told they were selling it because they are breaking up, a source told The Post.

Jolie has hired top gun Laura Wasser as her lawyer.

The court documents list the couple's date of separation as Sept. 15, 2016.

The couple have been together since 2004.

A rep for Cotillard did not immediately get back to The Post.

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Now that everyone's had a couple of days to digest this Brangelina fiasco, an uncomfortable truth is beginning to emerge. And it's the sort of thing that usually goes unnoticed - especially in a story that has so many other, shinier, prettier distractions.

If you're a woman (wife, third woman, casual bystander), you're going to lose.

It doesn't matter if you're in Burari or Beverly Hills - now that the dust has settled, it's clear that if you're a woman (wife, third woman, casual bystander), you're going to lose.

However you choose to look at it, this has always been the default reaction. Blame patriarchy or just plain idiocy, but this isn't just an Indian problem, it's a global one.

Trying to understand the allure of tabloid gossip is pointless - wiser people have tried, and failed, and given up. But the surface, however beautiful it may be, needs to be scratched. And once it is - with all its botoxified superficiality - the ugly reason why the wrinkles were hidden in the first place is revealed.

In this case, the only takeaway is that there are two people involved (8, if you count their kids), but only one of them is being blamed. Yes, there is a psychological angle to immediately being antagonistic towards the one filing for divorce. Taking affirmative action and ending a pointless relationship comes with added side-effects, in this case, blame. The sympathies will always go to the one being dumped, the one being handed the divorce papers, because that's how sympathies work. But let's move beyond that shall we? Because if we're all being honest here, we know that if roles were reversed, and it was Brad Pitt who filed for divorce, he would hardly be getting half of the venom Jolie is being attacked with.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie met on the sets of Mr & Mrs Smith - when Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston.

Before you protest, this isn't even a hypothetical situation. Because we all remember how it went down in 2005. Yes, most people sided with Jennifer Aniston back then. But once again, there weren't many who blamed Pitt. Angelina Jolie was the home-wrecker. Before she became the serene goddess that she is now, she was the vixen who broke the Golden Couple apart. The wounds from Bennifer hadn't even healed yet, and now this?!

It has been 11 years but not much has changed. If you're a woman, chances are, it's still your fault.

You needn't have done anything wrong. In fact, if your name is Marion Cotillard, all you need to have done to have your name dragged in the mud, is to have acted in a movie. In other words: Your job.

Does anyone care if you're a globally lauded artist? Does it matter that you're a winner of the highest honour your art can get you? And if you think anyone gives a second thought to the fact that you're bucking industry norms, and working more consistently than any of your contemporaries have the right to - the right given to them by rich white men of course - you're just being needy, like a girl. It is probably irrelevant that you've been in a relationship for almost 10 years (with a man you have a son with), because the moment you signed on to star in a Brad Pitt film, you lost. All of this - none of this - matters.

Because you're a woman.

And God help you if you're Jennifer Aniston. Because clearly, you haven't moved on in the last ten years. At all. You're still obsessed with your Greek God of an ex-husband and not your Greek God of a current husband. Nah, so what if you're married? All you care about is sweet, sweet vengeance. Such is your thirst for revenge that you're willing to be humiliated online with thousands of GIFs.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston were married from 2000-2005.

Perhaps releasing official statements will help, even though you can't comprehend having to release official statements on someone else's private lives, but still. It's the right thing to do. Your only consolation is to make it as angry as you can without attracting even more hatred. So you write, "This crafted conversation isn't distressing. And to all the media and the haters who are quick to pass judgment, I sincerely wish you a swift recovery."

You repeat it in French, just to be safe.

This is going to be my first and only reaction to the whirlwind news that broke 24 hours ago and that I was swept up into. I am not used to commenting on things like this nor taking them seriously but as this situation is spiraling and affecting people I love, I have to speak up. Firstly, many years ago, I met the man of my life, father of our son and of the baby we are expecting. He is my love, my best friend, the only one that I need. Secondly to those who have indicated that I am devastated, I am very well thank you. This crafted conversation isn't distressing. And to all the media and the haters who are quick to pass judgment, I sincerely wish you a swift recovery. Finally, I do very much wish that Angelina and Brad, both whom I deeply respect, will find peace in this very tumultuous moment. With all my love Marion Ceci sera la première et seule réaction que j'aurai concernant la déferlante inouïe qui à commencé il y a de ça 24 heures et à laquelle je suis mêlée malgré moi. Je n'ai pas pour habitude de commenter ni de prendre au sérieux le tas d'absurdités déversées à mon sujet mais la situation prenant une telle tournure et affectant des gens que j'aime, je me dois de m'exprimer. Pour commencer, j'ai rencontré il y a quelques années l'homme de ma vie , le père de notre fils et du bébé que nous attendons aujourd'hui. Il est mon amour, mon meilleur ami et le seul homme dont j'ai besoin. Ensuite, à ceux qui me prétendent dévastée, je vais très bien merci. Ce genre d'inventions aberrantes ne m'affecte en aucun cas. Et pour finir, à la "presse", à tous les haters, trolls et consorts qui ont le jugement si rapide je vous souhaite sincèrement... un prompt rétablissement. Ceci dit et un peu plus sérieusement, je souhaite à Angelina et Brad, deux personnes pour qui j'ai un profond respect, de trouver la paix dans ce moment tumultueux. Avec tout mon amour. Marion

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Only to wake up to headlines like: 'Angelina dumped Brad after private eye uncovered Marion Cotillard (Page Six)', 'The Brangelina Split Has Been Blamed on Marion Cotillard. She Reacts (NDTV)', and the best of the lot: 'Marion Cotillard, accused of having an affair with Brad Pitt, is 'pregnant with second child'' (thanks, NEWS.com.au).

Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard will be seen in Allied.

Again, blame patriarchy, but mostly, just blame idiocy. Because not all idiots are sexist, but all sexists are definitely idiots.

Think about it: When the Hrithik-Kangana news broke, how many times do you recall people calling Hrithik Roshan - born into Bollywood royalty and not, like Kangana, in the mountains - a psycho? How many times was he accused of witchcraft? Was his career affected in any way?

Mel Gibson punched his girlfriend so hard, he broke her teeth - and then hurled racist abuses at her. But the poor man was on drugs. It wasn't his fault. Oh, and also, he has a new movie coming out that's getting great buzz and isn't it awesome he's back? We missed you Mel. What's a little sexism here or there.

And how about Woody Allen? That Mia Farrow was such a B about him having an affair with, and then marrying, her adopted daughter, right? But, in the words of Lin-Manuel Miranda: "Love is love is love is love is love is love is love."

So, until the next 'Oh, love is dead' celebrity breakup, let's just go back to being heartbroken about #Brangelina OK?
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The event of Pitt threatening to kill Harvey Weinstein after alleged harassment of his girlfriend at the time, Gwyneth Paltrow, resurfaced. This again raised some questions on his uncontrollable aggression.

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This article by Fox News articulates how Brad Pitt is flourishing in his career, style and defences after the abuse allegations from his ex wife Angelina Jolie. It describes her claims as fake painting her as a liar who failed in ruining Pitts career and image.

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Brad Pitt had many ups and downs throughout 2022 - including an intense legal battle, a handful of new movies and a new relationship.

Pitt's third movie of the year, "Babylon," hit theaters on Dec. 23. The drama-comedy follows multiple characters living in the "decadance" and "depravity" of early Hollywood.

"Babylon" marks the end of a year when the actor seemingly focused on himself.

Pitt spent 2022 expanding his style, sculpting art and doing some self-reflection.
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Here is a look at Brad Pitt's wild year:

An intense legal battle

Throughout much of 2022, Pitt has been locked in a legal battle with Angelina Jolie.

The actor accused Jolie of intentionally seeking to "inflict harm" on him by selling her interest in the former couple's vineyard, Château Miraval. The "Moneyball" actor claimed Jolie sold her interest in the vineyard without his consent, something they had previously agreed was a requirement.

Jolie followed up by accusing Pitt of wrongfully taking control of the company.

"Ever since his former wife, Angelina Jolie, filed for divorce from him in 2016, Brad Pitt has been waging a vindictive war against her," according to the countersuit filed on behalf of Jolie's former company, Nouvel.

"Pitt has frozen Nouvel out of Château Miraval and treats it as his personal fiefdom," the filing added.

Angeline Jolie accused him of abuse

In court documents obtained by Fox News Digital this year, Jolie accused Pitt of abuse.

During a 2016 fight, Pitt allegedly "choked one of the children and struck another in the face" and "grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her." He then poured "beer and red wine" on her and their six children.

"Some of the children pleaded with Pitt to stop," according to the documents filed in Los Angeles Superior Court. "They were all frightened. Many were crying."

Jolie filed for divorce days after the alleged altercation.

A source familiar with the matter told Fox News Digital the claims made by Jolie were false.

"She continues to rehash, revise and re-imagine her description of an event that happened six years ago by adding completely untrue information each time she fails to get what she wants," the source said.
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Brad Pitt released a few new movies

Brad Pitt spent the majority of the year focused on his career. The actor had three movies released throughout 2022.

In March, fans got to see Pitt make an appearance in Sandra Bullock's "The Lost City."

"Once we knew we had Brad in the film, we were like, 'We are going to soak up every minute of this guy's time. We're going to make him hate saying yes to this movie,'" co-writer Adam Nee previously told Entertainment Weekly. "So we slipped him these pages, and we're like, 'We wrote a scene where you're alive at the end,' and he's like, 'OK, this is crazy.' But he was so game."

"We really wanted this movie to feel like this joyous escape, and everyone loves this character," he added about the film, which he co-wrote with his brother Aaron Nee. "We love this character, and we like the idea that he could have more adventures, too, even if he has gone through a really traumatic incident."

Pitt went on to participate in worldwide press for his assassin comedy "Bullet Train."

Director and Pitt's former "Fight Club" stuntman David Leitch said the actor was "dying to do comedy" when presented with the script for "Bullet Train."

"I think people hadn't seen Brad like this in a long time, maybe ever," Leitch told The Hollywood Reporter. "He was dying to do comedy and when we sent him this script I think he responded and saw the things that we saw in it. It has great characters, especially [his character] Ladybug. He was laughing halfway through it and said, 'I can do this. Leichty let's do it. Leitchy let's do it!'"

The film was released on Aug. 5.

Pitt's final film of 2022, "Bablyon," hits theaters on Dec. 23.

He expanded his style

Pitt also set out to expand his style in 2022.

He made headlines on many occasions for his red carpet looks - including a skirt he wore for a "Bullet Train" red carpet event in Berlin.

"What was the reason for you to choose a kilt tonight?" The Associated Press asked Pitt.

"The breeze," he responded with a smile.
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The actor also debuted his first art collection

Pitt debuted nine pieces of art at the Sara Hilden Art Museum in Tampere, Finland, in September.

At the time, he revealed how his divorce from Jolie led him to create a friendship with sculptor Thomas Houseago. The "Bullet Train" actor first met Houseago through musician Nick Cave.

"Our mutual misery became comic," Pitt said of his friendship with Houseago in an interview with the Financial Times. "And out of this misery came a flame of joy in my life. I always wanted to be a sculptor; I'd always wanted to try it."

Pitt spent a lot of time at Houseago's studio while going through his divorce. The "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" actor used this time to work on his sculpting skills.

"It's all about self-reflection," Pitt told the outlet about his sculptures and art. "I was looking at my own life and really concentrating on owning my own s---: where was I complicit in failures in my relationships, where have I misstepped."
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Brad Pitt launched a new business venture

Pitt launched his own skincare line in September. Le Domaine is made using grapes from his vineyard.

"Le Domaine is not meant to be a celebrity brand," Pitt said in a news release. "It is an anti-aging cosmetics range for every man and woman. I love the idea of a genderless line."

The skin care products range in pricing from $80 to $385. He produced the line with the help of the same family that turns his Château Miraval grapes into wine.

"When the Perrins told me about the research they had conducted with a professor on the antioxidant property of the grapes and leaves, it clicked," Pitt said. "We rapidly moved on with the concept of developing a unique sustainable skin care brand, merging state-of-the-art research with the best natural ingredients."

Pitt got back into the dating game

Brad Pitt reportedly rejoined the dating scene sometime over the summer but wasn't looking for a "serious relationship."

The actor spent the summer "living his best life under the circumstances," a source told People magazine in July.

"He has a large group of artsy friends in L.A. that he hangs out with," the insider said. "He's dating, but is not in a serious relationship."

Brad's dating led to a new relationship

Ines de Ramon's relationship with Pitt was confirmed in November - just months after the jeweler split from ex-husband Paul Wesley. Pitt and De Ramon first sparked romance rumors after the two were photographed attending a Bono concert together along with Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.

"It's not an exclusive relationship," a source close to Pitt told People magazine at the time.

"Ines is cute, fun and energetic," the insider added. "She has a great personality. Brad enjoys spending time with her."
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Brad Pitt's wild year: From lawsuits to abuse allegations and a new relationship

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The pair had three adopted and three biological children, reinstating his family man and now outstanding father image.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt may no longer be together, but they're still the proud parents of six children.

Back in 2002, Jolie became a mom for the first time when she adopted Maddox Chivan, 22, from an orphanage in Cambodia. Three years later, the family grew with the addition of Zahara Marley, 18, who was born in Ethiopia. It wasn't long before Pitt also adopted Jolie's first two children - and the couple decided to further expand their family.

Following the 2006 birth of their daughter Shiloh Nouvel, 17, Jolie and Pitt adopted their son Pax Thien, 19, from Vietnam. Then in 2008, their household grew even more when they welcomed their twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, 15.

Jolie has said that having a large family and a multicultural upbringing has impacted her children in an overwhelmingly positive way.

"They're pretty great people and because there's so many of them, I think they've had a very significant effect on each other. It's not like I'm the head of anything. I'm very honest with my kids. And I'm very human with my kids," Jolie told PEOPLE.

At the 2020 Oscars, Pitt opened up about wanting his children to follow their own interests.

"Listen, I want them to follow their bliss, follow their passions, whatever they're most interested in," he said in the press room. "It's about guiding as you can."

In September 2023, Jolie told Vogue that her children "saved" her.

"I was 26 when I became a mother," she said. "My entire life changed. Having children saved me - and taught me to be in this world differently. I think, recently, I would've gone under in a much darker way had I not wanted to live for them."

Here's everything to know about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's children.

Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, 22

Jolie and Pitt's oldest child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, was born on August 5, 2001 in Battambang, Cambodia. After spending the first seven months of his life in an orphanage, he was adopted by Jolie, who had previously fallen in love with the country while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider the year prior. Jolie visited only one orphanage and felt an instant connection with Maddox, explaining that when she saw him lying in a box suspended from the ceiling, she "cried and cried."

At the time of Maddox's adoption, Jolie was still married to Billy Bob Thornton - although she adopted the little boy on her own. Several months after returning home with Maddox, Jolie and Thornton called it quits, and she began to raise the little boy as a single parent. In 2005, Jolie started dating Pitt and by the end of that year, Pitt had begun the process to also adopt Maddox.

By the time he was 6, Jolie shared that Maddox was growing up into a "little intelligent man," adding that he was "so smart and so witty." She even called the little boy her "best buddy" and "the coolest little person" she'd ever met.

As Maddox grew older, he became increasingly interested in both Jolie's humanitarian work and her work as a filmmaker. At age 15, he worked as an executive producer on Jolie's film First They Killed My Father, the film adaptation of her friend Loung Ung's book about the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie later explained that she, in part, took on the film because she hoped Maddox would learn "about who he is" and become "that much more connected to his country."

"He goes back and forth [to Cambodia] a lot, but this would be over four months of just being in the country, really reading, listening, learning and absorbing all things about his culture and country [including] the very, very dark parts," she told PEOPLE.

In 2019, Maddox enrolled in South Korea's Yonsei University, which Jolie said she "could not be happier about." While he was forced to take classes remotely during the pandemic, he was eventually able to return to campus where he is studying biochemistry and working on learning the Korean language.

"I'm so happy for [Maddox] that he's grown up into such a good man. I say that 'cause he's smart and he's doing his work, but he's also wild. He's balanced in his teenage years," Jolie shared.

In April 2023, Jolie and Maddox attended a state dinner at the White House, where President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee.

"Asia-America relations are important to Angelina's family. She and the children have had close ties to the region, including South Korea, for many years," a source close to the actress told PEOPLE. "Angelina has visited South Korea many times for her humanitarian and refugee advocacy over the past two decades. Angelina and Maddox are honored to attend this State Dinner."

Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, 18

Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt was born on Jan. 8, 2005 in Hawassa, Ethiopia and was adopted by Jolie when she was seven-months-old. Jolie initially visited Zahara's orphanage with Maddox after he had taken an interest in traveling to Africa. Upon meeting the little girl, Maddox noticed that she "needed care." "Kids understand sadness and poverty and hunger," Jolie said at the time.

When they later returned to make the adoption official, Jolie was also joined by Pitt. In July, they returned home, where Zahara was treated for a salmonella infection at a New York City hospital and made a full recovery - ready to begin life with her family.

"Mad loves her. When Z came home she was older, she was seven months old, so for Mad it's like having this tiny pet he can just hold and look at. He's great," Jolie said at the time.

Since then, Zahara has gotten the opportunity to travel around the world with her family, visiting her home country of Ethiopia for a special trip in 2019. During the visit, Jolie and Zahara met with the country's first female president, Sahle-Work Zewde, where they discussed Ethiopian culture and history as well as issues like education and treating drug-resistant tuberculosis.

That same year, Zahara also launched her Zahara Collection jewelry line in collaboration with jeweler Robert Procop. All proceeds from the collection benefited House of Ruth Shelters, a Los Angeles-based organization which provides transitional housing for battered women and children.

In 2020, Jolie revealed that Zahara had undergone several surgeries although she did not specify the reasoning. The teen was able to recover at home during the pandemic, when her schooling transitioned online. During that time, Jolie opened up about raising the now-17-year-old, praising her as "an extraordinary African woman."

"My daughter is from Ethiopia, one of my children ... And I have learned so much from her. She is my family, but she is an extraordinary African woman and her connection to her country, her continent, is her own and it's something I only stand back in awe of," Jolie shared.

In July 2022, Jolie announced on Instagram that Zahara is planning on attending Spelman College in the fall.

"Zahara with her Spelman sisters!" Jolie captioned a photo of Zahara smiling with her classmates. "Congratulations to all new students starting this year. A very special place and an honor to have a family member as a new Spelman girl."

Pitt also celebrated Zahara's achievement while speaking with PEOPLE at the Bullet Train premiere in L.A.

"Yeah that's beautiful," the actor said, appearing to get emotional. "Really beautiful."

In August 2022, Jolie dropped Zahara off at Spelman college. The mother and daughter met with school president Dr. Helene Gayle and Vice President for Student Affairs Darryl Holloman, who shared a photo and video from the event on Instagram.

When asked how she felt about being a Spelman mom, Jolie replied, "I'm gonna start crying! I have not started crying yet."

In addition to starting college, the teen has been busy helping with her mother's humanitarian efforts.

In February 2023, Jolie and Zahara traveled to Washington, D.C. to meet with lawmakers to advocate for the passage of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2022, which aims to protect crime victims by creating a victims' right to evidence and agency reports, improve forensic science, end the rape kit backlog and address racial disparities in wrongful convictions.

In photos from the visit, Jolie and Zahara can be seen meeting with Patrick Leahy, one of the bill's sponsors, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

A few months later, the mother-daughter duo took another trip together - this time to New York City. Jolie and Zahara were spotted walking hand in hand through John F. Kennedy International Airport.

Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, 17

In 2006, Jolie and Pitt announced they were expecting a baby. Their daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born on May 27 at Cottage Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia, where the family had spent the past few months. Shiloh immediately fit in with her family, and one year after her birth, Jolie said the little girl was reminding her a lot of herself.

"Shi's so full of light and love, she's just a little honey, and very, very funny. I think I'm recognizing some of myself in that one - she's going to be a little bit of trouble!" she shared.

Jolie has said that growing up, Shiloh thought she was "one of the brothers," and the family has always supported her fashion choices. The actress told Reuters in 2010, "I think she is fascinating, the choices she is making. And I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting. Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth. Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go."

As Shiloh has gotten older, she's become increasingly involved in her mother's humanitarian efforts. At just nine years old, she requested to join her mother on a trip where they traveled to the Middle East for World Refugee Day - and they have now traveled all across the globe together. Since then, Shiloh has also accompanied Jolie on numerous red carpets, including several humanitarian events. As the duo share an especially tight-knit relationship, she even encouraged Jolie to take on her role in The One and Only Ivan.

Now at 16, Shiloh spends much of her spare time dancing, practicing at Millennium Dance Complex, an elite dance studio in L.A. While she hasn't spoken out about her passion for dance, she has been featured in several videos shared by the studio.

Shiloh also seems to be interested in theater, as the teen and Jolie met with Paul Mescal in London in February 2023. Mescal stars as Stanley in the A Streetcar Named Desire play at the Almeida Theatre and the trio were reportedly sitting in the theater's cafe after the show.

Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt was born on Nov. 29, 2003, in Vietnam, where he spent the first few years of his life in an orphanage outside of Ho Chi Minh City. He was adopted by Jolie in 2007 at age three when she traveled to the country with Maddox. At the time, Jolie adopted the little boy solo as Vietnamese law makes it difficult for unmarried couples to adopt, but he was formally adopted by Pitt in 2008.

Shortly after bringing Pax home, Jolie shared that the little boy was spending time getting accustomed to his surroundings and enjoying his new sense of freedom, calling him a "tough, remarkable little person."

"He spent 3 1/2 years of his life in one place, in one room, in this one little iron bed with 20 other kids, and having no choice for himself to do things, having no freedom. And suddenly, here he is in a very free situation with new brothers and sisters and a mom and dad. He's learning English and he's so loving and he's wild and free 'cause he suddenly has freedom so he's a little wild and crazy," Jolie shared.

In the years following his adoption, Jolie shared that Pax formed a close bond with Maddox and was enjoying life with his big family. In 2011, the group returned to Vietnam to explore Pax's home country ahead of his eighth birthday.

While Pax keeps much of his personal life out of the spotlight, he did make a small appearance in Jolie's 2016 film Kung Fu Panda 3, voicing the character Yoo. He also assisted Jolie and Maddox on First They Killed My Father, where he served as a set photographer.

In August 2022, Jolie opened up to PEOPLE about working with both Pax and Maddox on Without Blood, an upcoming film she directed. The two young men worked on the Italian set in the assistant director department, which serves as a liaison between the film's director and other departments.

"We work well together," Jolie said of her boys. "When a film crew is at its best, it feels like a big family, so it felt natural."

In 2008, Jolie and Pitt revealed they were expecting when Jolie stepped out at the Independent Spirit Awards with a baby bump. On July 12, Jolie gave birth to twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt in Nice, France. Knox arrived minutes before his sister, weighing in at 5.3 lbs. It was later revealed that the little boy was named after Pitt's grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse.

Upon returning home, the couple described their household as "chaos," but noted their older children were on hand to help with the new additions to the family. Jolie told PEOPLE that Shiloh and Zahara were enjoying picking out the twins' clothing and often helped "change and hold them." As a toddler, Jolie noted that Knox was "a lot like Brad" both "emotionally and physically."

Knox has grown up primarily outside of the spotlight, although he did voice the character of Ku Ku in Kung Fu Panda 3. And in 2019, Knox and his siblings were spotted showing off their entrepreneurial skills while selling homemade organic dog treats at a park in L.A.

Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, 15

Knox's fraternal twin Vivienne Marcheline was born just a minute after her brother on July 12, 2008, weighing in at exactly 5 lbs. She was named after Jolie's grandmother, with whom she shares the same first name.

As newborns, Vivienne and Knox made their public debut with their parents on the cover of PEOPLE in August 2008.

While Vivienne has primarily grown up outside of the public eye like her brother Knox, she has already made her on-screen debut. In 2014, she appeared in Maleficent while portraying the younger version of Elle Fanning's character Aurora. Jolie explained that the duo practiced her scene at home - and she was pretty impressed.

"When we did it together, we had a good time. I was actually shocked that she was doing so well she went back and hit her mark! It's frightening," Jolie said during a Disney roundtable.

In August 2023, Jolie announced that she's bringing an adaptation of S.E. Hinton's novel and Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 film, The Outsiders, to Broadway. PEOPLE then confirmed that Vivienne will serve as her mother's volunteer assistant on the project.

"Viv reminds me of my mother in that she isn't focused on being the center of attention but in being a support to other creatives," Jolie said in a statement. "She's very thoughtful and serious about theatre and working hard to best understand how to contribute."

When she's not lending a hand on Broadway, Vivienne is focused on school and raising her pet bunnies.

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The 'Mr. & Mrs. Smith' actress has battled for custody of her children for years

The judge overseeing the case was removed after failing to disclose business dealings with the attorney of her then-husband, Brad Pitt

Jolie penned a letter to the California governor urging him to sign a bill known as 'Piqui's Law'

Angelina Jolie allegedly believes the judge overseeing her custody case was 'biased' toward her ex-husband, Brad Pitt - and now the actress is urging the governor of California to require domestic violence training for court professionals.

In a two-page letter dated September 29, the 'Girl, Interrupted' actress urged Governor Gavin Newsom to back 'Piqui's Law.'

The bill would block children from going into 'reunification camps,' which force them to live with their abusive parent.

It would also establish domestic violence training programs for judicial officers and mediators on the impact of child abuse and trauma.

'You will be aware that Piqui's Law derives its name from a 5-year-old boy who suffered a tragic fate, killed by his father in April of 2017,' Jolie wrote.

'Piqui's mother, Ana Estevez, fought unsuccessfully within the California family court to secure protection for her child.

'Over the past six years, Ana has collaborated with California legislators to ensure that authorities do not overlook or dismiss the signs of abuse, signs that tragically result in harm and death for numerous children in our country.'

A source close to Jolie said the actress is pushing for the legislation following her experience with Los Angeles Judge John Ouderkirk, who refused to let her children testify about domestic violence they suffered at the hands of their father.

Ouderkirk, a retired private judge who officiated the couple's nuptials, ruled in May 2021 that the couple would maintain even-split custody of their children.

'This is personal to her, and for good reason,' the source said, citing her disagreements with 'biased' Ouderkirk, who was removed from the case after he failed to disclose his business dealings with Pitt 's attorneys.

Jolie claimed Ouderkirk denied her children the opportunity to testify even though California law allowed children 14 years old and older to do so.

She challenged the judge's tentative custody decision and filed a petition in the appellate court to remove him from the case. He was disqualified in July 2021.

'Their whole family is a victim of system failure,' the source continued.

'She has been fighting privately for her family and publicly for other families for years.'

Sources close to Brad Pitt, however, told the New York Post that Jolie is trying to 'misrepresent the truth' and harm the reputation of those who testified against her.

'While the legislation she is supporting is potentially very viable, it has nothing to do with her custody case,' one source said.

'It is inexplicable why she would use her advocacy for another defamatory effort to disregard all the objective facts in order to advance her own interest.'

Sources close to the 'World War Z' actor's legal team also claimed the decision to remove Ouderkirk was based on a 'technical procedure' and had nothing to do with facts related to the case.

They denied that the judge was in business 'with anyone.'

Jolie fought to keep custody of the children after a 2016 altercation detailed in an FBI report.

Pitt, who had been drinking, 'grabbed her by the head, shaking her' and shook Jolie by the shoulders as they argued over one of their kids during a private flight to France.

According to Jolie, Pitt said, 'You're f***ing up this family!' and punched the ceiling four times.

When the children asked if she was okay, Pitt said: 'No, she's not okay, she's ruining this family, she's crazy.'

One of the children then yelled, 'It's not her, it's you, you p***k!' before Pitt allegedly charged at the child.

Jolie held him back, causing injuries to her back and elbow, the report alleged.

The actress filed for divorce six days later, but the FBI did not pursue charges against Pitt.

A source close to Jolie said Pitt had 'not ever denied his abusive behavior' and added: 'If this happened to Jolie in her court case, just imagine what is happening all over the country.'

However, a source close to Pitt said the actor has admitted his wrongdoing in regards to the plane fiasco, but reiterated that no charges were filed against him.

'Those FBI reports were introduced into evidence in the custody hearing, where he was still granted 50/50 custody,' the source said.

'Anyone who testified or argued against her, she has tried to destroy. These defamatory comments against Judge Ouderkirk are demonstrably false, and she has even gone after a child evaluator who testified in the case.'

'Piqui's Law,' formally known as Senate Bill 331, passed the California legislature on September 15 and now awaits Newsom's signature to take full effect.

It is named after Aramazd Andressian Jr., a 5-year-old boy who was killed by his father after a trip to Disneyland in 2017.

The boy's mother, Ana Estevez, warned officials that his father was dangerous as she tried to divorce him.

The man, however, was granted joint custody of their son, and the judge allowed him to take the boy affectionately called 'Piqui' on vacation.

Initially, he claimed that his son had been abducted - but months later, he led police to the spot where he had been buried in a wooded area near Santa Barbara.

Activists gathered on the steps outside Pasadena City Hall on September 18, urging Newsom to support the bill.

The governor has until October 14 to sign or veto it. If he takes no action, SB-331 becomes law on January 1.

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Angelina Jolie slams 'biased' judge in custody battle with Brad Pitt

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In a two-page letter dated September 29, the 'Girl, Interrupted' actress urged Governor Gavin Newsom to support 'Piqui's Law.'

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Brad Pitt does not have an instagram account of his own so one of his fans has made a fan page posting about his movie career and personal life, gaining over 2 million followers.

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Brad Pitt has explained his disinterest in joining social media platforms unlike most celebrities.

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While many celebrities all around the world use social media as a means to connect to their fans, Hollywood actor Brad Pitt thinks he is better off without jumping on the bandwagon.

During a chat with E! News at the Los Angeles premier of his latest film 'Once Upon A Time in Hollywood', the 55-year-old 'Fight Club' actor revealed that he deems his life much better having no presence on social media.

Asked whether he would be joining soon, the actor revealed: "Never gonna happen."

"Well, I never say never. Life's pretty good without it. I don't see the point," he added.

Apart from Pitt, prominent stars like Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston and Emma Stone have also steered clear of becoming part of social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

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Brad Pitt will 'never' join social media, says 'life is good without it'

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Apart from Pitt, prominent stars like Sandra Bullock, George Clooney, Jennifer Aniston and Emma Stone have also steered clear of becoming part of social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter or Facebook.

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he also has a tiktok fan account which has reached 24 thousand followers. they post clips from his movies and appearances, mainly showcasing his body and reminiscing on his past relationship with Jenifer Aniston.

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Brad Pitt (@bradpitt.official) on TikTok | 67.7K Likes. 24.1K Followers. Follow my page on Instagram!↖️.Watch the latest video from Brad Pitt (@bradpitt.official).

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During a bullet train red carpet event, Pitt wore a skirt shocking his audience with the Jurassic change of style from his previous looks. His response indicated a a sense of carelessness stating that "were all going to die soon".

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With temperatures soaring across Europe this summer, Brad Pitt's recent decision to wear a light and airy linen skirt on a red carpet in Germany might have seemed like a sartorial surprise from the star, but it made sense.

However, the actor was just asked about his fashion-forward choice, and he didn't say a word about beating the heat.

So what was really behind the leggy look he sported at the Berlin screening for "Bullet Train"?

"I don't know!" Pitt said when a Variety reporter inquired. "We're all going to die, so let's mess it up."

Call it existential style or post-pandemic fashion freedom, but it seems to mean the 58-year-old actor plans to wear whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

And evidently, at Monday's "Bullet Train" premiere in Los Angeles, Pitt wanted to unveil another bold look - though he kept his legs completely covered.

For the pink carpet at the Regency Village Theatre, Pitt wore a vivid green suit with drawstring pants and a contrasting teal top - all likely from the same private-label designer who created his skirt, Haans Nicholas Mott - and he teamed it up with a pair of bright yellow sneakers.

Pitt has turned to Mott for his ensembles throughout his promotional work for "Bullet Train," and in an email to GQ, the designer noted that the skirt that gained so much attention was the star's idea, not his.

Mott wrote, "i love working with mr pitt because he has a clear sense of how he wants to be in the world and we make work in that space, i.e. mr pitt proposing an espresso linen skirt to go with the linen jacket."

The end result is a sort of collaboration between the two.

"there is an accord between mr pitt's vision of our shared space and my freedom to navigate within it," Mott continued. "his sense of color / fit / texture / pattern is utterly nuanced and genuinely special."

In other words, expect Pitt's daring fashion sense to continue.

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A reporter asked Brad Pitt about wearing a skirt. He gave a liberating response

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Brad Pitt tells Variety why he wore a skirt on the red carpet for "Bullet Train," and it wasn't just about beating the heat.

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This is another example of a more casual red carpet outfit, exhibiting his usual colour scheme.

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He for an effortless chic look with many black suite red carpet appearances over the years

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Another unique outfit choice was this green suit with yellow trainers showing a more care free side to Pitts fashion choices.

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This mens health article looks over the different hairstyles Pitt has had over the years as it has always been a hot topic, often changing depending on the roles he has played.

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A Look Back at Brad Pitt’s Hair Evolution Throughout His Career

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Analysing his sense of style not only during Hollywood events, but also his everyday wear presents the changes made each year in Pitts clothing allowing him to stay on trend and in the public eye.

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Brad Pitt’s dramatic style evolution: from the late ’80s and ‘90s to ’00s

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Over the years, Brad Pitt’s style evolution has evolved from baggy cargo pants to sharp suits and much more. See how his style has changed over time.

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Brad Pitts star image began with drama films featuring his serious roles exhibiting talent in the acting field. His characters were often the handsome protagonist who found love through his journeys.

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As his career began to take off, Pitt played in roles that highlighted his appearance and flirtatious personality rather than previous love stories that displayed this much more subtly. This gave him the image of a Hollywood sex symbol which flourished throughout his acting jobs.

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Brad Pitt was featured in a Pringles advert in 1989, appearing shirtless objectifying his body to promote the product

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Young Brad Pitt early in his career Pringles Commercial

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Pitt takes on a hero trope, taking down a serial killer in the crime/thriller picture.

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During this Levi's commercial from 1990, he leaves prison to be picked up by an attractive woman in a sports car, insinuating this is the life he lives. this has been done to highlight his ability to obtain what he desires through his fashion sense and good looks.

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Brad Pitt and Jenifer Aniston started dating in 1998 and wen on to get married in 2000. They were hollywoods it couple, admired throughout their relationship, sadly separating in 2005.

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While it's been 15 years since we last saw Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt as a couple, their romance is definitely one for the history books. Although the couple was only together for seven years (and married for five!), their A-list relationship did not end with their divorce in 2005. Between their one million dollar wedding, his guest appearance on "Friends" and their iconic reunion in 2020, here is everything you need to know about Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston's relationship.

Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston first met in 1994, however they didn't begin dating until 1998.

Brad proposed to Jennifer in 1999 and they wed the following year.

After five years of marriage, the couple announced their split in early 2005. Brad went on to date and wed actress Angelina Jolie while Jennifer wed Justin Theroux.

They both went on to divorce their spouses and have since remained close friends. Most recently, they starred alongside each other during a virtual table read in 2020 (and played some flirty characters on screen!)

1994: A Casual Meeting

Unlike their romance, their first meeting was quite casual. The pair met sometime in 1994 via their managers, who happened to be friends. "He was just this sweet guy from Missouri, you know?" she told Rolling Stone in 2001. "A normal guy."

1998: The First Date

Their relationship wouldn't turn romantic until their first date four years later. Brad had just broken up with actress Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer called it quits with actor Tate Donovan, prompting their managers to set up a date. In 2004, Jen later told Diane Sawyer that the "evening was really easy" and the date "was really fun."

September 12, 1999: Red Carpet Debut

The sparks were ever so present on their first date so the couple dove right into a relationship. They walked for the red carpet together for the first time at the 51st Primetime Emmy Awards, confirming relationship rumors in the process.

November 29, 1999: Rocking an Engagement Ring

While attending a Sting concert together on November 29, 1999, the Hollywood stars took the stage to show off Jennifer's new accessory: an engagement ring! The actor reportedly spent $500,000 on the custom bauble, which boasted plenty of diamonds set in a unique circular shape.

July 29, 2000: The Wedding of the Year

The biggest celebrity wedding of 2000 was undoubtedly Brad and Jen's summer nuptials. The couple wed on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Malibu in front of 200 guests. Brad wanted the private estate venue to look like a Zen garden so he ordered 50,000 roses, wisteria, tulips, and lotus flowers. A flawless bride, Jen wore a glass-beaded, low back wedding gown by Lawrence Steele down the aisle and the newlyweds danced to "The Way You Look Tonight." The over-the-top affair (complete with a 40-person gospel choir, lobster meal, champagne, and a Melissa Etheridge performance) ended with a 13-minute firework show-and cost the couple roughly $1 million.

November 22, 2001: Guest Starring on "Friends"

The couple acted alongside each other in 2001 when Brad made a guest appearance on Jen's hit sitcom "Friends." The episode, called "The One With The Rumor," aired on November 22, 2001, and Brad's character actually hated Rachel Green, who was famously played by his wife.

February 1, 2003: Is He the Love of Her Life?

When asked if Brad was the love her life during Jennifer's cover interview for in 2003 she responded with, "Is he the love of my life? I think you're always sort of wondering, 'Are you the love of my life?' I mean, I don't know, I've never been someone who says, 'He's the love of my life.' He's certainly a big love in my life," she told the publication. "And I know that we have something special, especially in all this chaos. In this nutty, brilliant, wonderful, hard business that we have, it's nice to have somebody who's anchored and knows you, really knows all of you."

February 2004: Baby Fever

With the end of Jennifer's time on "Friends" looming, the actress told The Guardian she was ready to have a baby with her husband of nearly four years. "It's time. It's time. You know, I think you can work with a baby, I think you can work pregnant, I think you can do all of it. So I'm just truly looking forward to slowing down," she said at the time.

May 2004: Mr. and Mrs. Smith

Despite Jen's baby fever earlier in the year, by May 2004 cheating rumors between Brad and his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar Angelina Jolie began to swirl. In 2006, Jolie recounted to how she and Brad began to fall in love on-set of the film, saying, "Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, 'God, I can't wait to get to work.' ... Anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair. It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we'd earlier allowed ourselves to believe. And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration."

January 7, 2005: An Unfortunate Separation

After a nearly 5-year marriage and seven-year relationship, Brad and Jennifer announced their split to People on January 24, 2005. The statement read: "We would like to announce that after seven years together we have decided to formally separate. For those who follow these sorts of things, we would like to explain that our separation is not the result of any of the speculation reported by the tabloid media. This decision is the result of much thoughtful consideration. We happily remain committed and caring friends with great love and admiration for one another. We ask in advance for your kindness and sensitivity in the coming months."

March 25, 2005: Filing the Paperwork

Jennifer filed for divorce from Brad on March 25, 2005.

September 2005: Jen Addresses the Divorce

While Brad began to flaunt his relationship with actress Angelina Jolie immediately after announcing his separation with Jennifer, the Friends star didn't address the divorce until September 2005. She told Vanity Fair at the time, "Am I lonely? Yes. Am I upset? Yes. Am I confused? Yes. Do I have my days when I've thrown a little pity party for myself? Absolutely. But I'm also doing really well. Relationships are two people; everyone is accountable. A lot goes into a relationship coming together, and a lot goes into a relationship falling apart. She'd say, 'Even if it's 98 percent the other person's fault, it's 2 percent yours, and that's what we're going to focus on.' You can only clean up your side of the street."

And when the interviewer told Jennifer about the 60-page photo-spread Brad had just posed for with Jolie in (entitled "Domestic Bliss"), she replied: "Is it odd timing? Yeah. But it's not my life. He makes his choices. He can do-whatever. We're divorced, and you can see why. I can also imagine Brad having absolutely no clue why people would be appalled by it," she adds. "Brad is not mean-spirited; he would never intentionally try to rub something in my face. In hindsight, I can see him going, 'Oh-I can see that that was inconsiderate.' But I know Brad. Brad would say, 'That's art! There's a sensitivity chip that's missing."

October 2, 2005: Officially Divorced

Brad and Jennifer's divorce was finalized on October 2, 2005

September 15, 2011: Brad Comments on the Past

In 2011, Brad made some shady remarks to about his former marriage to Jennifer, telling the publication, "I spent the '90s trying to hide out, trying to duck the full celebrity cacophony. I started to get sick of myself sitting on a couch, holding a joint, hiding out. It started feeling pathetic. It became very clear to me that I was intent on trying to find a movie about an interesting life, but I wasn't living an interesting life myself. I think that my marriage [to actress Jennifer Aniston] had something to do with it. Trying to pretend the marriage was something that it wasn't."

He later, however, issued an apology for his comments in the interview, saying, "It grieves me that this was interpreted this way. Jen is an incredibly giving, loving, and hilarious woman who remains my friend. It is an important relationship I value greatly. The point I was trying to make is not that Jen was dull, but that I was becoming dull to myself-and that, I am responsible for."

August 10, 2012: Jennifer Is Engaged

On August 10, 2012, Jennifer's boyfriend of one year, actor Justin Theroux, pops the question with a $500,000 engagement ring.

August 23, 2014: Brad Weds Angelina Jolie

After raising six children together, Brad and Jolie finally tied the knot on August 23, 2014. The couple gathered with 22 family members, including their children, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox, at their French chateau for an intimate wedding ceremony.

August 5, 2015: Jennifer Weds Justin Theroux

A second marriage for Jen, the actress wed fiancé Justin Theroux on August 5, 2015-nearly a year after Brad tied the knot with Jolie.

September 20, 2016: Jolie Divorces Brad

Two years into their marriage, Jolie filed for divorce from Brad, citing irreconcilable differences.

February 11, 2017: The Infamous Text

Newly-single Brad supposedly texted ex-wife Jennifer (who was still married to Theroux at the time) on her 48th birthday in 2017. In addition to sending her birthday wishes, the actor reportedly confided in Jen, with a source saying, "Brad told her he's having a hard time with his split and they exchanged a few texts reminiscing about the past," per Marie Claire.

February 15, 2018: Jen Splits From Theroux

On February 15, 2018, Jennifer announced her split from Theroux after nearly two-and-a-half years of marriage.

February 11, 2019: A Birthday Invitation

Brad scored an invitation to Jennifer's 50th birthday party in 2019, which was held at Los Angeles's Sunset Tower Hotel. Brad's attendance prompted a flurry a media speculation surrounding the couple. In June of that year, Brad responded to a paparazzi cameraman by saying, "Oh my god." Sources close to the couple continued to tell the public the two were just friends.

December 14, 2019: First In, Last Out

After attending her 50th birthday in February, Brad also landed a spot on the guest list to Jennifer's holiday party in 2019. A source told Entertainment Tonight, "[Brad] was among the first to arrive and the second to last guest to leave around 11 p.m."

January 19, 2020: The Photo That Broke the Internet

Early in 2020, Brad referred to Jennifer as a "good friend" but then this happened: The couple reunited on the Screen Actors Guild red carpet and showed off flirtatious body language. After the photographs from the event surfaced (including the one above), fans everyone hope the pair would get back together.

September 17, 2020: Flirty Characters

Brad and Jen reunited again in September 2020 for a charity table read of the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High. Starring alongside other actors-Morgan Freeman, Matthew McConaughey, and Julia Roberts -Jennifer and Brad played characters, Linda and Brad, respectively. The couple exchanged flirty dialogue, with Jen as Linda saying, "Hi Brad, you know how cute I always thought you were? I think you're so sexy, will you come to me?"

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Everything You Need to Know About Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt's Headline-Making Relationship

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While it's been 15 years since we last saw Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt as a couple, their romance is definitely one for the history books. Although the couple was only together for seven years (and married for five!), their A-list relationship did not end with their divorce in 2005.

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The actor has had multiple public relationships, creating a golden boy star image, steering away from the player stereotype film stars can often convey. His admired relationships and healthy friendship with Gwyneth with her expressing regret after their split reinstates his outstanding partner persona.

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Pitts star image had first taken a dark turn when he had cheating speculations spreading in the media, allegedly being the cause of both his divorces. Forming this reputation of a cheater contradicted his once perfect husband perception during the relationships.

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During red carpet events earlier in his career, the movie star would wear more simplistic looks often consisting of black and white.

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As he got older and his image changesd, so did his style. He became much more adventurous trying out different colours and statement pieces in his recent red carpet events.

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During the comedy drama, Pitt plays a movie star who has a fast paced and troubled love life

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Heartwarming, slow music is played in the background while Brad travels around the countryside sharing a sentimental note. this connotes a soothing atmosphere which contrasts the previous advert.

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Perfetto from bean to cup | Brad Pitt x De’Longhi Global Campaign | Chapter 2

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The fashion advert from 2021 is filmed in a bedroom with him laying g down creating a homely feel.

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Brioni | Spring/Summer 2021 Advertising Campaign featuring Brad Pitt

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Both of the adverts below include Pitt as the leading source of promotion for food or drink. The first one uses his body as a sexual object for viewers desirability to sell Pringles, while the later commercial uses a sentimental calm tone conveying how the actor has matured, the brand using this image to sell their coffee.

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Another example of his changing personal aspects reflecting in the media is these two fashion advertisements.

The first is a fast paced, high energy advert connoting the jeans association of him getting what all men are expected to want in life. The second is simplistic and calming, again creating a sense of maturity.

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Pitt then indulged in sci-fi, dystopian and action roles. These diverse characters represent a dominant masculine ideology, taking charge which indicates strength along with his muscular body. moving away from the brainless seductive tropes, he showcased more diverse acting skills .

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A common theme in most of his roles is his confident, fun loving charisma as he explores a bad boy aspect not play things safe creating a dangerous fantasy around the star.

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His recent movie performances have all been massive successes as he costars with other leading Hollywood talents in the movies discussed. The evolution of his roles follow his star image, starting with indie dramas before he was well known then moving towards a young handsome man gaining attention for his sex appeal. as his career took off he experimented with more fantasy and sci-fi performances leading him to his main image of witty, confident action taking roles. Each role helped in setting his star image creating masculine associations aiding him in getting to the powerful position he holds.

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Mercer, J (2013), ‘The enigma of the male sex symbol’, Celebrity Studies. Vol.4 (1), p.81-91. 

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A consistent image upheld by Pitt has been a male sex symbol persona. John Mercer describes this as the over sexualisation of a celebrity presenting hyper masculine cultural values. His movie roles I have discussed exhibit dominant, leadership attributes while objectifying his muscular physique, as well as publicity in real life surrounding his sexual prowess successfully demonstrates Mercers insights.

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Talk shows have been a great tool for the star to introduce his entertaining personality, letting his fans see I to his real self rather than acted personas

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Poole, S (2013), ‘Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity’, The New Statesman

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Steven Poole explored the idea of authenticity in mediated celebrities creating a real image. these talk show and interviews showcase Pitts display of his "real self" being entertaining, fun loving and vulnerable.

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Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity?

Picture the tragic scenes in Crouch End, north London, early this year. The patrons of Harris + Hoole, a local coffee shop, had just learned to their horror that the supermarket chain Tesco owns a 49 per cent stake in the company.

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Why are we so obsessed with the pursuit of authenticity? - Are.na

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Picture the tragic scenes in Crouch End, north London, early this year. The patrons of Harris + Hoole, a local coffee shop, had just learned to their horror that the supermarket chain Tesco owns a 49 per cent stake in the company.

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Huang, J C (2021), ‘Gender and Celebrity Scandal: A Cross-Cultural Examination on Celebrity Endorsement’. Journal of Promotion Management. Vol.27, NO.1, pp.133-

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This journal article ties together Brad Pitts ability to thrive in the media sector after his abuse and cheating scandals, as cultural ideologies oversee men being unfaithful, instead targeting the women after the divorces.