Angelina in couture for Couture

Angelina Jolie stepped out for her first red carpet of 2026 last night Paris for the premiere of Couture and, fittingly, she was in Givenchy by Sarah Burton; this is one of the more notable looks we’ve seen from her in a while. By her standards, going by recent history, this is Angie turning it up.

And not just in the dress either, but also the hair. This is a proper blowout.

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That face card though, like seriously. When Angelina wants to serve, she can make it work for any camera. A Blackberry camera from 2010 could have produced a good shot with this face.

Angelina’s been quiet, even quieter than usual, the last few months. But that doesn’t mean she hasn’t been working. She was working on Anxious People last fall, adapted from Fredrik Backman’s book of the same name. And then it was reported in December that she’d started production on a film called Sunny in the role of a gangster who’s trying to protect herself and her sons from a drug lord. Angelina in a crime thriller? We’ll take it.

She has at least two films in development, one of them is an action movie with Halle Berry called Maude v Maude which was supposed to be a Warner Bros title, so it remains to be seen what happens to the project now that WB is in the middle of an acquisition war. But it was also announced last year that she’ll be working again with Doug Liman in another spy movie called The Initiative. And, well, it’s about time she’s returning to these kinds of roles. Justice for Salt!

All of this is promising for Angelina on the professional front, but there’s a f-cking dark cloud that’s been hanging over her for years in her personal life. As “happy” as he keeps telling us he is, Brad Pitt can’t be that content if he’s this persistent about suing her over the sale of their French estate. The lawsuit has been interminable and the latest is that he’s legally obliging her to turn over messages that she exchanged with her advisors which could mean that Angie is the next celebrity to get the “but her emails” treatment.

We’ve seen it over and over again, from former first lady politicians to celebrities and what happens when their private texts and other digital communications somehow make it online for the internet to distort and contort. This never works out for women and given how Brad has worked with some of the same PR operatives who’ve represented Johnny Depp and, later on Justin Baldoni, um, it’s not like his people wouldn’t be familiar with the playbook. Will you be surprised if “but her emails” becomes more effective than “but he hasn’t been seen with his six children in almost a decade”?