Venice ensures that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will not meet

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will avoid any awkward encounters this week while promoting their films at the Venice International Film Festival, as programmers have taken extra precautions to keep the feuding exes apart.

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera said the festival has taken special precautions to avoid having films by famous exes overlap in its lineup.

“Angelina will be there on the first day, Thursday (August 29), and she will leave right after with Pablo Larraín (the director of ‘Maria’)” for the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, Barbera explained. “So Brad will not arrive until Saturday, in Venice. There is no chance that they will cross paths at the Lido,” the famous island where the festival is held.

A source tells us that Hollywood stars have not asked the festival to space out their films.

“Neither of them asked for this, they were wise enough to realize it,” our source said.

Angelina Jolie arrived in Italy on Wednesday and will present her film “Maria”, about the opera singer Maria Callas.

Pitt will be in town for the premiere of his film with George Clooney, “Wolves,” on September 1.

Jolie filed for divorce in 2016 and the exes have been fighting ever since.

The former couple’s divorce is still ongoing – although both are legally single – and they continue to bitterly settle issues, including ownership of their famous French wine estate, Chateau Miraval.

The acrimony extended to their children, with some of their six children even dropping the famous Pitt surname.

It was reported earlier this month that the “Fight Club” actor had “virtually no contact” with his adult children and “limited visits” with his younger children as he was busy filming the racing movie “F1.”

The couple’s children include Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 15.