Awkward! Angelina Jolie Runs Into Sony's Amy Pascal After Email Diss Leaks—and Their Faces Are Priceless!

Their encounter occurred just two days after leaked Sony emails described the A-lister as a "minimally talented spoiled brat"

By Bruna Nessif Dec 12, 2014 4:19 AMTags
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Oh, to be a fly in that room. Or that woman photobombing the picture. We'd be happy with either one.

Take a good look at this picture, folks, because this might be one of the most awkward run-ins in Hollywood history and it was caught on camera.

Angelina Jolie and Sony co-chairman Amy Pascal crossed paths while both at the The Hollywood Reporter Women in Entertainment Power 100 Breakfast on Wednesday, just two days after leaked Sony emails described the A-lister as a "minimally talented spoiled brat." Ouch!

Now, we clearly don't know what's being said in this exact moment, but the facial expressions given by Jolie and Pascal give us some hints.

Pascal obviously seems deeply apologetic, grabbing Angie by the shoulders and smacking her lips in a way that suggests she almost didn't even know what to say.

Jolie, on the other hand, seems to be listening intently to whatever Pascal has to say. Whether she's accepting whatever's being said or not, we don't know.

The Unbroken director was the spark of an explosive fight between Pascal and fellow exec Scott Rudin because she objected to friend and famed director, David Fincher, directing Jobs instead of her version of Cleopatra, which was written by screenwriter Eric Roth. However, according to the leaked emails, Rudin was dead set on having Fincher for the Apple biopic.

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"YOU BETTER SHUT ANGIE DOWN BEFORE SHE MAKES IT VERY HARD FOR DAVID TO DO JOBS," Rudin wrote in an email in Feb. 2014. Pascal, apparently sensing a threat, didn't respond lightly, which caused the fight to completely explode.

"Do not f--king threaten me," she wrote. "I have been asking you to engage with me on this for weeks."

After that, Rudin loses it completely, attacking both Pascal and Jolie.

"What the hell are you talking about? Who's threatening you? Let me remind you I brought this material to you and I can off her from it in a phone call. Don't for one second even think about trying this s--t with me. There is no movie of Cleopatra to be made (and how that is a bad thing given the insanity and rampaging spoiled ego of this woman and the cost of the movie is beyond me) and if you won't tell her that you do not like the script—which, let me remind you, SHE DOESN'T EITHER—this will just spin even further out into Crazyland but let me tell you I have zero appetite for the indulgence of spoiled brats and I will tell her this myself if you don't."

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Both Hollywood honchos have since issued public apologies for their "insensitive words."

Rudin released a statement to NBC:  "Private emails between friends and colleagues written in haste and without much thought or sensitivity, even when the content of them is meant to be in jest, can result in offense where none was intended. I made a series of remarks that were meant only to be funny, but in the cold light of day, they are in fact thoughtless and insensitive—and not funny at all. To anybody I've offended, I'm profoundly and deeply sorry, and I regret and apologize for any injury they might have caused."

Meanwhile, Pascal, remorseful for her once private words, also apologized for her emails in a statement to NBC: "The content of my emails to Scott were insensitive and inappropriate but are not an accurate reflection of who I am. Although this was a private communication that was stolen, I accept full responsibility for what I wrote and apologize to everyone who was offended."