Now that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have finally called it quits and are both legally single again, rumors of a reunion between the actor and his other ex, Jennifer Aniston, have kept popping up.
It has been almost fifteen years after Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston ended their failed marriage and have gotten subsequently divorced. Yet fans of the golden couple are still hung up on the two stars' parting. Most of those fans still cannot get over the fact that the "Sexiest Man Alive" and "America's Sweetheart" may never be getting back together, ever.
Just recently too it was reported, there are those besides the former couple's fans who just cannot move on either and persist in playing the role of "matchmaker." This presumably was for his friend's sake, now that both stars are free and single again. Ostensibly, a close friend of Pitt, George Clooney, has been trying to hook up the two exes.
Out of the goodness of his heart, because, as it is claimed by a source, Clooney no doubt is eager to make his friend Pitt a happy man once more, the ER television series starrer recently set things up so the two could meet privately in a conducive setting.
So Clooney was said to have invited both his friends, Pitt and Aniston, to join him and his wife, Amal, in Rome for a "top-secret weekend." He even had to pick a place he trusted for its discretion, although for the added privacy, he was said to also have reserved the place in his parents' name, just to be sure.
However, besides this too-good-to-be-true account, there has been no breath of news as to what had transpired during that said trip, or even some confirmation that it was not just some made up story to tickle the fancy of Hollywood's former "It Couple" long-time fans, looking for a reason to believe a reunion could still be possible.
Belatedly though, a representative for the Friends alum have branded this report as "completely false."
Still, some have ruminated now and again about who was really to blame for the end of the fairytale almost fifteen years ago which no one had been prepared for. It may be little comfort to a few that the Troy actor spoke on the matter and has designated himself as the person to blame for that parting.
The father of six has admitted it had been his fault why his marriage with Aniston ended. There had been a lot of speculation about that, and some things that he himself had spoken got twisted around and misunderstood, prompting the 55-year-old star to come out and make clarifications.
In an interview some years back, the actor had revealed that he had been at a difficult crossroads in his life, right smack in the middle of his marriage with Aniston. It had also been a time in his life when some roles he played which he had deemed interesting to him had made him look at his own life and find that he was missing something there.
Then his role in the film Mr. & Mrs. Smith had come to him, and he had met Angelina Jolie when he had accepted the role. Many had believed that it had been his developing relationship with the Maleficent actress that had pushed him finally to the other side of the fence, smack into Jolie's lap.
Indeed, it was believed by most that Pitt and Jolie had been having an affair and that it was the reason why Pitt had divorced Aniston. However, someone close to the Fury actor, Pitt's long-time makeup artist in fact, gave insight into this situation, saying that Pitt had truly and "deeply" cared for his first wife, and the same was true for her.
However, Pitt, by self-admission, had grown from the man who used to leave things "undone" into one who believed it was "important" for him to "see things through." Jolie's role had been to serve as the "catalyst" for that transformation.
It had nothing to do with any failure on Aniston's part nor on Pitt's. Not even Jolie's. The makeup artist, Jean Black, believed Pitt had gotten "ready to soar" when he got to know Jolie. While even now Pitt and Aniston have stayed true friends, Black says that in Jolie the actor had found someone who clutched at life to bring it to its "nth degree," something which he saw in himself that he wanted to "unleash."
This statement is in agreement with something Pitt himself had revealed about having searched for films to do that represented an "interesting life" which he himself did not lead. He had gone on to say that it had something to do with his marriage (he and Aniston were still together then).
When there was some uproar over this reference to Aniston, he had to come out and address it by clarifying that he had not meant that it was his then-wife who was "dull" but that he had sensed it himself, that he was becoming dull.
