Brad Pitt attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival with his girlfriend Inés de Ramón on Thursday night.
The actor, 60, attended the film festival to help honor his friend Bradley Cooper with the Outstanding Actor of the Year award.
Brad and Ines, 34, were seated next to each other at the event, which took place at the Arlington Theatre, as seen in Hello! magazine.
Brad Pitt attended the Santa Barbara International Film Festival with his girlfriend Inés de Ramón on Thursday night.
The couple sat behind Bradley and his Maestro co-star Carey Mulligan.
According to Hello! Ines had her hand on Brad’s thigh for most of the event, and the couple laughed and chatted with each other.
A source told People: “He seemed to be in great spirits on stage as he presented the award to Bradley and teased his friend, joking that he was only here for the free trip to Santa Barbara.”
Brad donned a brown pantsuit and a button-down shirt, while Ines wore a blue high-necked dress.
Brad and Ines were first linked in November 2022 after being spotted at a Bono concert.
They were seen two months after Ines separated from her husband Paul Wesley after three years of marriage.
He took her to her Babylon premiere in December 2022, followed by birthday celebrations, New Year’s Eve together, and a trip to Paris.
They were also together to celebrate Brad’s 60th birthday in December.
However, his sighting at the festival came just two days after Brad was accused of “volatile” behavior on the set of his 1994 film Legends of The Fall by the project’s director, Ed Zwick.
The actor, 60, attended the film festival to honor his friend Bradley Cooper with the Entertainer of the Year award.
Brad and Bradley photographed during the Santa Barbara International Film Festival.
Brad and Ines, 34, were seated next to each other at the event, which took place at the Arlington Theatre, as seen on Hello! magazine
Brad and Inés were first linked in November 2022 after being seen at a Bono concert.
They were seen two months after Inés separated from her husband Paul Wesley after three years of marriage, seen in 2019.
In an excerpt from her new memoir, ‘Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood,’ Zwick, 71, opened up about her difficult relationship with Pitt.
The filmmaker wrote that Pitt “can be volatile when angry,” according to an excerpt published by vanity fairand “he would get nervous every time he was about to film a scene that required him to show deep emotion.”
He recalled one of their ‘arguments’ on set which they wrote: ‘I don’t know who shouted first, who swore or who threw the first chair. Maybe me? But when we looked up, the crew had disappeared. And this was not the last time it happened.”
Pitt was cast in the role of Tristan Ludlow after Tom Cruise dropped out, although his agent reportedly called Zwick after the first board read “to say Brad wanted to quit.”
Producer Marshall Herskovitz finally convinced him to stay.
‘It was the first omen of the deeper springs of emotion stirring within Brad. He seems calm at first, but he can be volatile when he gets angry, as I was reminded more than once when he started filming and we sized each other up,’ Zwick wrote.
“Sometimes, no matter how experienced or sensitive you are as a director, things just don’t work.”
“His ideas about Tristan differed from mine,” Zwick continued.
‘Brad had grown up with men who controlled his emotions; He believed that the point of the novel (Legends of the Fall) was that a man’s life was the sum of his pains… However, the more he pressured Brad to reveal himself, the more he resisted. So I kept pushing and Brad backed off.”
He recalled an example when he gave Pitt an address in front of the team, which he admitted was “a stupid and embarrassing provocation.”
‘Brad came back to me, also loudly, telling me to back off. The considered move would have been to tell the crew to take five and have the two of us talk it out. But I felt very desperate and was not willing to give in.
However, his sighting at the festival came just two days after Brad was accused of “volatile” behavior on the set of his 1994 film Legends of The Fall by the project’s director, Ed Zwick; Brad seen in a still from Legends Of The Fall
He recalled one of their ‘arguments’ on set in which they allegedly ‘yelled, cursed and threw chairs’ and that ‘it wasn’t the last time it happened’; (LR) Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz and Pitt in 2015
“I was angry at Brad for not trusting me to influence his performance. Also at the reluctance he had shown after the first table read. Who knows, I may have even been acting out my own inability to be vulnerable.
But Brad wasn’t about to give in without a fight. In his defense, he was pressuring him to do something he thought was wrong for the character or more “emo” than he wanted to appear on screen.
He then detailed a moment in which they allegedly yelled, cursed and threw chairs.
“Over time, the team got used to our fights and would walk away and let us figure it out. “We hate it when parents fight,” said one.
Zwick shared that although they would “break out” at each other, they would later “make up and mean it.”
The director went on to say that Pitt is “a frank and direct person, funny and capable of great joy.” He was never less than completely committed to doing the best he could.
When the film wrapped and Zwick shared the final cut with the actor, he wrote that Pitt was “unhappy” and “felt he had downplayed his character’s madness.”
Legends of the Fall starred Pitt alongside Anthony Hopkins, Aidan Quinn, Julia Ormond and Henry Thomas, and was based on the novella by Jim Harrison.
Although known for his laid-back public persona, Pitt has previously been accused of volatile behavior by his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, 48; Brad and Angelina photographed cuddling on January 7, 2008 at the 13th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards in Santa Monica.
The movie stars, who met in 2004 while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith, share six children: sons Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, and Knox, 15, and daughters Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and Vivienne , fifteen. ; seen with family in Tokyo on November 8, 2011
The film, which was nominated for three Academy Awards and won for cinematography, follows three brothers and their father living on the plains of Montana in the early 20th century.
Although known for his relaxed public persona, Pitt has previously been accused of volatile behavior by his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, 48.
The movie stars, who met in 2004 while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith, share six children: sons Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, and Knox, 15, and daughters Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 17, and Vivienne , fifteen. .
Jolie adopted Maddox in 2002, then Zahara in 2005, a year after meeting Pitt while filming Mr. and Mrs. Smith. He was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time.
They then adopted Pax together in 2007 and later had biological children, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. Pitt adopted all the children before marrying in 2014.
They married in August 2014 after 10 years together, but Angelina filed for divorce in September 2016.
At that time, Angelina chose to file a lawsuit ‘for the health of the family,’ according to the Associated Press, and asked for physical custody of the children.
They were declared single by a judge in 2019, but their divorce remains ongoing.