Jolie and
Pitt’s Film Romance
Couple
appeared together in movies that echoed their love life
Happier times: Pitt and Jolie getting ready to walk the
red carpet at the world premiere of 'Ocean's 13' at the 60th Cannes Film
Festival on May 2007. — Reuters
FOR Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, it
started with tequila and dancing in the rain in Bogota and ended on the French
seaside with white wine, pills and tears.
Hollywood’s most storied modern couple only appeared together twice in the movies. The first time, in 2005’s Mr
& Mrs Smith, they fell in love. A decade later, By the Sea would
come just a year before their relationship would come to an end with Jolie
filing for divorce. Both times they played a childless husband and wife whose
passion had turned to resentment.
Their real life together was full of
public declarations and displays of love, children, philanthropy, humanitarian
work and glamour. In the movies, though, their surface beauty was only a mask
for the rot and boredom underneath. Still, even through tears and gunfire, they
always smouldered.
“You can absolutely madly love the same
person you want to kill,” Jolie said in 2015, seated on a silk-sheeted bed next
to Pitt on the set of By the Sea, filmed on their technical honeymoon,
but it could have easily been about either. In Mr & Mrs Smith, they
are actually trying to kill each other after all.
It was a strange story to fall in love to,
but not uncommon in the entertainment business, even if Pitt was married at the
time to Jennifer Aniston. Jolie had already been married twice, to Billy Bob Thornton
and Jonny Lee Miller.
“We just became kind of a pair. And it
took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise that it
might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe,”
Jolie told Vogue in 2006.
Monday’s divorce filing comes after 12
years together and two in marriage. The couple wed privately in August 2014 at
their French chateau in the Provence hamlet of Correns with their children
serving as ring bearers and throwing flower petals.
An attorney for Jolie, Robert Offer, said
on Tuesday that her decision was made “for the health of the family”. She is
petitioning for physical custody of 15-year-old Maddox, 12-year-old Pax,
11-year- old Zahara, 10-year-old Shiloh, and 8-year-old twins Knox and
Vivienne, with visitation rights for Pitt, who said in a statement to People
how “saddened” he is.
“What matters most now is the well-being
of our kids,” Pitt said, requesting space for the children.
The gossipy, tabloid origins would always
at least partially define “Brangelina”. But after the media upheaval, Jolie and
Pitt eventually settled into their own unique kind of globe-trotting
domesticity. -
The pair adopted children from Cambodia,
Vietnam and Ethiopia. In 2006, they formed the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, to which
they funnelled many of the millions they made selling personal pictures to
celebrity magazines.
Jolie, who became special envoy for the
United Nations in 2012, was an outspoken voice for refugees, as well as for
breast cancer treatment after undergoing a double mastectomy herself. Pitt built
homes in New Orleans for victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Both expanded creatively, too, but mostly
separately, Jolie as a burgeoning and ambitious director of both war epics like
Unbroken, and languid melodramas like By the Sea, and Pitt as a
producer of socially relevant films through his Plan B production company,
including the Academy Award- winning 12 Years a Slave, last year’s The
Big Short and the recently debuted festival hit Moonlight.
"When we first worked together it was
very different because we didn’t really know each other and we were young and,
it was really a fun film, so we thought, maybe By the Sea was going to
be that kind of fun, but realised very quickly that it wasn’t,” Jolie told The
Telegraph in 2015.
“Then we joked that this is what happens
after 10 years of marriage.”— AP
Brangelina disagreed over parenting styles
ANGELINA Jolie filed for divorce from Fury
actor Brad Pitt on Monday and it has now been claimed that they had problems
handling their “boisterous” and “hard-to-handle” children, Maddox, 15, Pax, 12,
Zahara, 11, Shiloh, 10, and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Pitt, 52, believes Jolie, 41, is far too
soft with the kids and lets them do whatever they want, something she resented.
A source told DailyMail.com: “The children
can all be a nightmare apart from Maddox. He’s really, really sweet and nice.
Angie believes everything the children tell her.
‘They can do no wrong in her eyes,
everything they say becomes the gospel truth.
“They’re very hot and cold with all the
staff. They’re very physical and boisterous and hard to handle - especially
because there’s six of them. The 11-year old (Zahara), is the one who
instigates it all.
“One of the team threw a towel which
accidentally hit Vivienne and caused her to trip up. Then Zahara was
instructing her what to tell Angie - to say she was eating a biscuit at the
time and nearly choked because of it.” - The claims come after a source
revealed Pitt has “always been a stricter” parent than his wife.
Of their different parenting styles, an
insider recently said: “Brad has always been stricter. He has wanted the kids
to have more structure.
“Brad will get frustrated sometimes antj
yell at the kids. Angelina always had a more relaxed attitude when it came to
the kids. She definitely never yells.”
Jolie’s manager previously revealed the
actress decided to file for divorce as she feels it is in “the best interests”
of her children.
Her long-time associate Geyer Kosinki
said: “Angelina is doing what’s best in the interest of taking care of her
children.
“She appreciates everyone’s
understanding of their need for privacy at this time.” — BangShowbiz
Bye Bye Brangelina
The end of
Hollywood's golden couple
Slightly
after two years of marriages. Pitt and Jolie are calling it quits. - Handout
EVERYTHING about Angelina Jolie and Brad
Pitt - from their unparalleled glamour to their brood of six kids - made them
stand out in Hollywood for a decade and see their every move watched closely
the world over.
Contributing to this mega-star status was
the way they met, their good looks, offbeat lifestyle, demanding and successful
careers and humanitarian work.
Indeed, the way the couple formed is the
stuff of legend in Hollywood - and any gossip press reporter’s dream come true.
In 2004, Jolie, then 28, met Pitt,
40 and married to Jennifer Aniston, while
filming Mr & Mrs Smith, an action film in which they played a
couple.
Rumours quickly started to fly and in
March 2005, Pitt and Aniston divorced.
Jolie, who won an Oscar in 2000 and was
seen as one of showbiz’s sexiest women, then teamed up 1 with
another Hollywood giant in Pitt.
Weeks later, they appeared as a couple in
an atmospheric photo shoot in the magazine W, in a throwback series evoking
1950s marital life - complete with five children. And the myth was bom.
On Tuesday it emerged that Jolie has filed
for divorce from Pitt, spelling the end of a couple that came to be known
simply as “Brangelina.”
Over the course of their joint stardom,
Pitt and Jolie maintained a carefully tended relationship with Hollywood and
the news media, feeding them as necessary but also keeping them at arm’s
length.
On the one hand there was all the red
carpet glitz of the Oscars and such, and a few blockbuster films and the
occasional interview.
But they also lived like wealthy nomads,
far away from Hollywood, and dabbled in arthouse cinema.
A good example of their unique
relationship with fame is this: tfie couple sold photos of their three newborn
biological children to several publications for a fortune. Then they donated
the money to charity. They did the same thing when they finally married in
2014. They also have three adopted kids.
The couple’s aura only grew as they got
involved in non-acting projects, either individually or as a couple.
Pitt won an Oscar for Best Picture in 2014
as a producer of 12 Years A Slave. He also got into design and
photography.
Jolie started directing movies, to
relative critical acclaim. Her best known film was Unbroken, which came
out in 2014.
The couple also made wine on a property in
southern France which they started renting in 2008 and finally bought in 2012.
Although they were known as “Brangelina,”
it was Jolie who seemed to be in charge in this duo, one like few others in the
world and with access to the highest spheres of power.
Jolie also got involved in humanitarian
work, while Pitt tended to be a bit more low profile.
She acted as goodwill ambassador and then
special envoy for the UN refugee agency, became an outspoken activist against
sexual violence in war zones and also worked to protect threatened animal
species.
One of the world’s most visible symbols in
the battle against cancer, she underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 and
later the removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes to prevent an aggressive
form of the disease that killed her mother, grandmother and aunt.
Two years later she signed an op-ed piece
in The New York Times in which she discussed her ovarian surgery and
urged women to take preventive action against the disease as she did, saying
“knowledge is power.”
And to the end, the image
of Jolie as leader of the couple remained: it was she, not Pitt, who filed for
divorce and sought sole custody of the kids. - AFP
Property portfolio
By Mark David
WITH the unexpected news that Angelina
Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt - legal documents cite irreconcilable
differences but celebrity gossip juggernaut TMZ reports she became “fed up”
with his pot smoking, concerned with his “anger problem,” and unhappy with his
parenting methods - we thought we’d have a quick poke around the couple’s
impressive' international property portfolio.
In. three separate transactions during the
mid to late 1990s,
Pitt paid a total of US$2.5mil (RMlO.Smil)
for three contiguous properties in an affluent and celeb- soaked pocket of Los
Angeles’s Los Feliz area.
Subsequent to the Jolie-Pitt’s coupling
the almost frealdshly attractive pair added two more adjoining properties that
combined cost US$2.4mil (RM9.9mil).
In the latter days of 2006, not too long
after they hooked up but almost eight years before their August 2014 wedding,
the Jolie-Pitts splashed out US$3.5mil (RM14.4mil) for a 1930s masonry mansion
in New Orleans’ famed French Quarter. In May 2015 they put the mansion up for
sale at US$6.5mil (RM26.8mil) and the price plummeted to US$5.6mil (RM23.1mil)
before it was taken off the market in mid-December.
Listing details from the time show that in
addition to a "magnificently renovated" main house with elevator,
Venetian plastered walls and a “gourmet kitchen”, the property has a two-story
guesthouse with one bedroom and 1.5 bathrooms, a private and spacious
courtyard with swimming pool.
In 2008 the now erstwhile pair rented
Chateau Miraval, a sprawling, multi-residence estate near the village of
Correns in the south of. . . France and they purchased it in 2012 from American
businessman Tom Bove for a reported US$60mil (RM248mil).
In addition to a main house that some
reports say has 35 or more rooms there are several smaller cottages for guests
and/or staff, a Romanesque chapel where the couple wed, and a recording studio.
The property was once owned by French jazz pianist Jacques Loussier - where
Pink Floyd, AC/DC, Muse and Sting have all been reported to have recorded.
The property has pine forests, olive
groves, a private pond, and extensive organic vineyards along with indoor and
outdoor swimming pools, spa and gym facilities, a professional-grade screening
room, a video game arcade, a dirt bike course, and a couple of helicopter
landing pads.
Jolie has an apartment at New York City's
Upper West Side since December 1997 and in 2003 she bought a traditional home
on almost 40ha in Cambodia’s Battambang Province where she later bought about
4,800ha of land she turned into a wildlife preserve.
And, finally, in late 2000, shortly after
Pitt married his first wife Jennifer Aniston, the actor paid an unknown amount
for an ocean- front compound along a rugged and otherwise unspoiled stretch of
beach just outside of Santa Barbara, California.
We really can’t say what will come of the
Jolie-Pitt's numerous properties but we assume without any inside intel that
each will keep what they brought to their 10-plus year union and that Chateau
Miraval and their New Orleans pied-a-terre will be sold off.
We shall see, butter beans,
we shall see. - Reuters
Jennifer Aniston's reaction to split:
'It's karma'
JENNIFER Aniston reportedly believes Brad
Pitt’s divorce from Angelina Jolie is “karma”.
Aniston, 47, who divorced Pitt in 2005
after five years of marriage - is said to think her former partner has finally
got his comeuppance for dating the Maleficent star immediately after
their split 11 years ago.
Speaking about Aniston’s reaction to the
split, which saw Angelina file papers on Monday to end her two-year marriage to
the Hollywood hunk citing irreconcilable differences, an insider told Us
Weekly magazine: “Yeah, that’s karma for you! She always got the sense that
something would happen with them eventually.
“She didn’t feel that Angelina was truly
the one who Brad was meant to stay with.
“She always felt that Angelina was too
complex for him. He’s a pretty simple guy.”
Another source said: “Admittedly
(Jennifer) feels sort of satisfied about Brad and Angelina’s split,” she also
“never wanted this for them or wished this on them.”
The Cake star - who is now married
to Justin Theroux - has wished Brad good luck for the future and hopes he will
be as “happy” as she is. — BangShowbiz
Three high-profile Hollywood splits
