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Pitt, Jolie to costar as parents
(E! Online)
Updated: 2005-12-05 10:22 So, does this mean they're going out?
While Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have yet to confirm they're romantic
partners, they have confirmed their intent to be parental partners.
Pitt, presumably with the permission of Jolie, is seeking to become the
adoptive father of his Mr. and Mrs. Smith costar's two children, his publicist
has announced. A petition to formally add Pitt's surname to theirs was filed
Friday in Los Angeles.
Pending court approval, the Jolie brood will be known as Maddox Jolie-Pitt
and Zahara Jolie-Pitt.
Mr. & Mrs.
Smith is not the 1940s screwball comedy by Alfred Hitchcock. This new
Smith-and-Smith stars Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie as husband and wife who
- if you can believe this - don't know that they are both hired assassins.
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Jolie adopted Maddox, an orphaned Cambodian boy, in 2002 when she was married
to Billy Bob Thornton. At the time, the couple referred to the baby as "our
son." But 11 days after Maddox arrived in the United States, Thornton moved out
on the new found family. In the divorce papers, Jolie asked for sole custody of
the child, and the boy took her surname.
Zahara, an Ethiopian orphan, became a member of the Jolie household in July.
Her adoption was witnessed by Pitt, who accompanied Jolie to the African
continent.
Pitt, who turns 42 on Dec. 18, has talked for years about his desire to play
a real-life family man. When he began such talk, he was married to Jennifer
Aniston. Their union foundered last January amid speculation--denied by both
parties--that he wanted kids now, and she wanted them later.
Speculation also had it that Pitt had fallen for Jolie, 30, whom he met on
the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and her way of life (child-rearing,
globe-trotting, do-gooding). This talk was not as convincingly denied.
In the June issue of GQ, Pitt talked about how a recent trip to Africa had
inspired him to adopt. "I'm telling you, you just wanna take 'em [the orphans]
up in your arms and take as many with you as you can," he said in the magazine.
Pitt played it cool when asked if Jolie had influenced his world-view. He
told GQ that while he respected the Oscar-winning actress' charitable work, he
had equal respect for the work done by a "host of others," including Bono.
But Pitt isn't adopting children with the U2 frontman; he's adopting them
with Jolie. And their brood could be getting bigger: Jolie has said in recent
months that she plans on adopting again. As to whether this move means the movie
stars are coming out as a couple, or are altar-bound, the answer is there is no
answer. "No further comment is being made," Pitt rep Cindy Guagenti said in a
statement.
Pitt's divorce from Aniston became final in October, about the same time
Pitt's relationship with Jolie entered the unofficial official realm, with the
pair jointly turning out for a photo-op at the Muhammad Ali Center in Kentucky.
Now that he's about to become a father, Pitt can apply the parenting
philosophy he discussed in GQ.
"I'm just really aware of the responsibility of putting your life second, and
your job is to show this little one around in the world," Pitt told the
magazine. "It's what makes sense to me."
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