Take that, Angelina Jolie! Brad Pitt comes out swinging in most CANDID comments yet about unhappy marriage and new bachelor life… then rubs salt in wounds by FLIRTING with love rival Jennifer Aniston
Brad Pitt was the toast of the SAG Awards after winning best supporting actor on Sunday night and reuniting with his ex wife Jennifer Aniston.
But there’s one person who might not be celebrating his big win: his ex wife Angelina Jolie.
The 56-year-old appeared to take unprecedented jabs at his former wife and the mother of his six children.
Ouch: Brad Pitt appeared to take aim at Angelina Jolie in his acceptance speech on Sunday night
In a speech sure to rile Jolie, he joked about ‘not getting on’ with his wife and his plans to use his Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award win to improve his dating life.
He actor scooped Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role for his work on ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’ ahead of Jamie Foxx (‘Just Mercy’), Tom Hanks (‘A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’) and ‘The Irishman’s Al Pacino and Joe Pesci and joked as he got on stage on Sunday he’d be boasting about it on dating apps.
Taking to the stage at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium, he quipped: ‘I go to add this to my Tinder profile.’
And Brad – who has been open about his struggles with alcoholism – also joked about the similarities between his character and his own failed marriage to Angelina Jolie.
He said: ‘Let’s be honest, It was a difficult part – a guy who gets high, takes his shirt off and doesn’t get on with his wife. It was a big stretch. It’s big.’
The actor poked fun at director Quentin Tarantino’s famous foot fetish as he thanked his co-stars.
He said: ‘I want to thank my co-stars, Leo, Margot Robbie, Margot Robbie’s feet, Dakota Fanning’s feet… Honestly Quentin has separated more women from their shoes than the TSA.’
Meanwhile, Laura Dern praised her own actor parents, Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd, as she picked up Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for ‘Marriage Story’.
She said: ‘Thank you SAG, what an incredible room to be in and be in celebration of all these extraordinary performances of my fellow nominees and all of you and be acknowledged by our peers…
‘All you actors, I literally wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for actors. So thank you Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd. Thank you for raising me in the community of your friends, on your movies, doing your plays and getting to know these extraordinary people.
‘My grandma Mary for raising me and my best friend on daily television reruns and those people I loved forever, Mary Tyler Moore, Lucille Ball, all these amazing artists we got to grow up with and watch do this.’
Laura won the award ahead of ‘Bombshell’ stars Nicole Kidman and Margot Robbie, ‘Jojo Rabbit’s Scarlett Johansson and ‘Hustlers’ actress Jennifer Lopez.