Marion Cotillard denies involvement in Angelina Jolie-Brad Pitt split; announces pregnancy

She stars opposite Brad Pitt in the upcoming romantic thriller Allied.

But French actress Marion Cotillard has been in the news less as Pitt’s co-star and more the ‘other woman’ in the actor’s high-profile divorce from his wife of two years (and partner since 2004) Angelina Jolie.

As news of ‘Brangelina’s’ separation was disseminated over Tuesday night and Wednesday (20-21 September), reports that Pitt had an affair with Cotillard while working with her on Allied also began to do the rounds.

Since Pitt and Jolie had also met while working on a film (Mr and Mrs Smith), while the former was still married to Jennifer Aniston, the speculation around the Pitt-Cotillard “affair” gained further traction. Some tabloids even claimed that Joli had hired a “private eye who confirmed her suspicions about an affair between her husband and Cotillard”.

However, Cotillard took to social media on Wednesday to disabuse the world of any ideas they may have concerning a relationship between her and Pitt.

In an Instagram post written in both English and French, she announced that she and her longtime partner, the French actor-director-screnwriter Guillame Canet were expecting their second child, and that she wished Angelina and Brad “peace in this tumultuous time”.

Cotillard and Canet began dating in 2007 and their first child Marcel, was born in 2011 .

In Allied, Cotillard and Brad Pitt play assassins on a mission to kill a German official in 1942 Africa. After they fall in love, and get married however, they discover that one of them is a double agent who the other must eliminate.

Comparisons with the plot of Mr and Mrs Smith — in which Jolie and Pitt played married assassins who’re given an assignment to kill each other — are bound to arise.

In the meantime, a short film that Cotillard featured in back in 2010 (Forehead Tittaes), that sent out a message against workplace sexism, has been once again trending on social media: