They have long been Hollywood's most iconic couple.
Brad Pitt.
Angelina Jolie.
These two names alone evoke overloaded photocalls, screaming fans in hotel lobbies, perfect and fair brushings, a fabulous world where everything becomes possible.
After getting together in 2005, they become so famous that we even merge their first names, giving life to a kind of mythical entity: the Brangelina.
This entity, the Americans have called it the "power couple", and we have never found a word that meant the same thing, with as much force, in French.
To discover
To listen > our Scandals podcast "Jeffrey Epstein: the rise and fall of a cold-blooded predator"
Over the years, there have been other power couples, which have come and gone.
The Brangelinas held on.
A long time.
So much so that they were believed to be indestructible and untouchable.
Until that day in 2016, when Angelina Jolie suddenly filed for divorce.
The model of the perfect couple and the great family is collapsing.
Behind them, nothing and no one to replace them.
In this episode of
Scandals
, journalist Marion Galy-Ramounot wonders: did the breakup of the Brangelina mark the end of an era?
Were Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie the first of the
power couples
, but also the last?
But above all, by diving back into their history, she sought to understand why there is such enthusiasm, and sometimes so much madness, around these star couples.
At his microphone follow one another:
Shelley Cobb, professor of film at the University of Southampton, author of
First Comes Love: Power Couples, Celebrity Kinship and Cultural Politics
.
Vanessa Diaz, Doctor of Anthropology, Lecturer at Loyola Marymount University.
She is the author of the book
Manufacturing Celebrity
.
Jana Singer, professor of law at the University of Maryland, co-author of
Divorced From Reality: Rethinking Family Dispute Resolution
.
Scandales
is a podcast by
Madame Figaro
, written and presented by Marion Galy-Ramounot, and produced by Lucile Rousseau-Garcia.
Claire Bellahsen participated in the writing and production of this episode, helped by Adèle Jacquet.
Thomas Rozes produced and mixed it to music composed by Jean Thévenin.
Océane Ciuni is the editorial manager of
Scandales
, a podcast produced by Louie Créative, Louie Media's audio content agency.
This episode entitled “Brangelina: once upon a time the last of the
power couples
” is broadcast on all platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Deezer, Spotify from April 18, 2022.
LISTEN TO THE PODCAST