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The New Brad and Angelina
At the Venice Film Festival, we could see who the two stars really are.
It was only through the ensuing legal battle that the most shocking substance of the couple’s “irreconcilable differences” came to light: On a plane ride from France to California in 2016, Jolie’s filings alleged, an intoxicated Pitt had physically abused not only his wife, grabbing her by the head and shaking her, but two of their children, one of whom he choked and the other he struck in the face. He had spent the fall of 2019 and subsequent winter peacocking through joke-dense acceptance speeches and had reunited with his widely beloved ex-wife Jennifer Aniston backstage at the SAG Awards, maintaining what seemed like an effortlessly cool, semi-retired-dad energy (if said semi-retired dad were extremely handsome). Pitt’s return to Venice alongside George Clooney, with whom he stars in Jon Watts’s action-comedy Wolfs, was all smiles and jokes, appealing to a nostalgia for a time when the two headlined movies together — Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy and the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading — and typified a suave and macho but nonthreatening masculinity.
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