"This is what happens when you hang out with me": Brad Pitt's words to a friend pursued by the paparazzi

“Everyone thinks we're dating, you know?” She would have slipped to him during a conversation. Between the end of 2019 and mid-2020, Alia Shawkat was indeed seen on multiple occasions in the company of Brad Pitt. Together, the two actors attend a play (their first public appearance as a duet, in September 2019), order "burgers and pizza", and "drive to the coast" in one of the hero's cars. of

(1995), confides at the time a close friend of the actress.

It did not take more to arouse the curiosity of the tabloids, four years after the separation of Brangelina.

Wouldn't Brad Pitt be more than one of Alia Shawkat's “best friends”, regularly seen leaving the actor's residence?

Suddenly became the target of the paparazzi, the young woman of 32 years had yet denied the rumors, in June 2020. And unveiled in the

, on Sunday, January 9, Brad Pitt's reaction to these noises from the hallway.

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The impression of "having dreamed"

The heroine of

(2021) was thus expressed on the fallout of this strange spotlight. “It happened as quickly as it ended,” she recalled in the columns of the magazine. It happened at the start of the pandemic, and I was alone in the face of it all. ” Before adding: “It was so weird. Now I have the impression of having dreamed. I wonder, "Did this really happen?" "Alia Shawkat also revealed Brad Pitt's reaction when she told him about the media hype. “He didn't know about it at all,” she explained. Which is very funny. Because he doesn't read these shits. ” The actor would then have launched: “I'm sorry. It happens.This is what happens when you hang out with me. ”

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

The young couple at the premiere of

by Robert De Niro, in New York, on December 11, 2006.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Moment of accomplice at the 64th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, January 15, 2007.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt walked up the steps of the Cannes Film Festival together for the first time on May 21, 2007, for the premiere of

by Michael Winterbottom, in which the actress plays.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

On May 24, 2007, the Hollywood couple illuminated the Croisette during the screening evening of

by Steven Soderbergh.

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: their best red carpet moments

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This sudden media coverage was not very well experienced by the actress.

“It has nothing to do with Brad as a person - he's a great guy,” she said.

Of course, the idea that I'm dating an older white man is what got me the most attention.

Not my twenty-year career.

This is what worries me.

It's ironic, disgusting and stupid. ”

Alia Shawkat nevertheless insisted that she had recovered from the incident.

“Again, it was very brief.

And I was doing very well (...) ”Since then, the paparazzi would have simply“ disappeared ”, and would only have to do with the actress's nocturnal trips.

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