Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Won't 'Cross Each Other' at Venice Film Festival, Director Confirms: 'There Is No Way'

Mar. 15, 2025

Angelina Jolie in London on Oct. 27, 2021; Brad Pitt in Los Angeles on April 25, 2021.Photo:Mike Marsland/WireImage; Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty

Mike Marsland/WireImage; Chris Pizzello-Pool/Getty

Angelina JolieandBrad Pittwill not be crossing paths at the upcomingVenice Film Festival.

The annual event’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, spoke withVanity Fairabout this year’s festival, at which both Jolie’sMariaand Pitt’sWolfswill have their world premieres.

Asked whether the exes have the potential to run into each other at the star-studded event, Barbera said that “of course” their appearances will be spaced apart.

“Angelina will be on the first day, on Thursday [Aug.] 29, and she will leave right after with [Mariadirector]Pablo Larraínto go to Telluride [Film Festival],” he explained. “Brad will arrive only on Saturday, to Venice.”

“There is no way that they can cross each other at the Lido,” Barbera added of Jolie, 49, and Pitt, 60.

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Angelina Jolie inMaria(2024); Brad Pitt inWolfs(2024).Pablo Larrain; Sony Pictures/Youtube

Pablo Larrain; Sony Pictures/Youtube

Jolie and Pitt’s divorce negotiations remain ongoing. After nine years together, the twotied the knot in 2014and Jolie filed for divorce two years later.

TheBullet Trainactor andEternalsactress first met on the set of 2005’sMr. & Mrs. Smithand began dating afterward. They sharesix children:Maddox, 23,Pax, 20,Zahara, 19,Shiloh, 18, and twinsKnoxandVivienne, 16.

They are currently embroiled in a contentious legal battle involvingChâteau Miraval, the French winery they previously co-owned.

A source recently told PEOPLE that nearly eight years after their breakup, Pitt and Jolie’ssettlement is still being hashed out.

“Both sides are still talking,” the insider close to the pair said of remaining issues in the divorce negotiations, “but it’s not done yet.”

Angelina Jolie in New York City on June 16, 2024; Brad Pitt in Los Angeles on Sept. 18, 2019.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Amy Sussman/Getty

Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty; Amy Sussman/Getty

As for their most recent projects,Mariais part of thein-competition lineupat Venice and stars Jolie asreal-life opera singerMaria Callas. The film also starsKodi Smit-McPhee, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher and Haluk Bilginer.

The Venice Film Festival runs from Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.

source: people.com