Yahoo News The best reactions to Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s SAG Awards reunion
It was the moment we’d been waiting for all awards season.
After months of near misses at various ceremonies, Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were photographed reuniting backstage at the SAG Awards on Sunday (January 19) evening.
It was a successful night for the former couple, who married in 2000 and split in 2005, with Pitt receiving the Best Supporting Actor trophy for Once Upon A Time… In Hollywood and Aniston named Best Actress in a Drama Series for The Morning Show.
But their wins became just a footnote in the Brad and Jen saga, as the first pictures of the pair together in more than 15 years sent the internet into meltdown.
Naturally, social media users had plenty to say about the photos. Here’s how Twitter responded to the emotional rollercoaster of Aniston and Pitt’s big reunion...
Emotions were naturally running high…
Why every elder millennial in your life rn is in a glass case of emotion pic.twitter.com/lNF8kenrsd
— Audrey Cleo Yap (@audreycleo)
THIS BRAD AND JEN REUNION IS TOO MUCH TO HANDLE FOR A MONDAY. #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/6yUQRixhEa
— Liv Morris (@liviamorris)
BREAKING: Queen Elizabeth has asked Brad and Jen to serve as senior members of the Royal Family. pic.twitter.com/iM6qABhpXx
— Karen Howell (@karenehowell)
And people became very invested, very quickly
Me: Brad and Jen are mature adults who can be friends without the world freaking out every time they're in the same room together ok?
Me after seeing The Photo: do we call them Braniston or Anipitt— Rachel Simon (@Rachel_Simon)
GUYS Brad and Jen was YEARS ago ok ENOUGH already now would everybody PLEASE just STOP and tell me WHERE I should get this TATTOOED pic.twitter.com/2q6IUQDea0
— Marc (@MarcSnetiker)
Me: Get over it, people! Brad and Jen are just amicable exes. 🙄🙄🙄
*Brad grabs Jen’s hand*
Also me: pic.twitter.com/Ff8Pos3Qpo— Maiah Ocando (@MaiahOcando)
Some people were confused - had we collectively gone back in time to the early Noughties?
me logging on this morning to see brad and jen holding hands and winning things at the sag awards pic.twitter.com/aWJjSyScJ6
— katie louise smith (@_katesss)
Brad and Jen are trending??? pic.twitter.com/wEoqoPENLz
— Brian (@Brian_Capozzi)
in the year of our lord 2020 I didn’t expect to be getting this worked up over brad and jen before bedtime pic.twitter.com/m6jLzI0HAO
— Amanda Kelley (@amandakelley91)
The nostalgia kicked in
My inner teen seeing Brad and Jen trending: pic.twitter.com/uq7Xc3PfR2
— Llama Drama (@basicqueen69)
People seeing the Brad and Jen reunion pic.twitter.com/q9dgyn6zV0
— DessiHNDRXX (@IAmDestinyIV)
Others spared a thought for showbiz journalists - especially those working at certain US gossip magazines
There are editors at People magazine who have been preparing for tonight's Brad and Jen reunion since before you were born
— David Greenwald (@davidegreenwald)
mission control at Us Weekly the moment brad grabbed jen’s wrist pic.twitter.com/EM0guCGeuU
— Jill Gutowitz (@jillboard)
people magazine, in touch magazine, us magazine, Perez Hilton, TMZ and E-News all seeing this Brad and Jen interaction pic.twitter.com/U4hgvaO7MC
— 🌒 (@_sahana8_)
Some dampened our spirits when they reminded us of the reason Aniston and Pitt broke up back in 2005
I can’t believe how everyone is rooting for Brad and Jen to get back together when he literally publicly DUMPED HER for someone else. pic.twitter.com/9OySuHkOtN
— Megi (@_SpiceMeg)
Me wanting Brad and Jen to get back together but then remembering why their marriage broke up pic.twitter.com/zrygxxshh7
— Monica (@MonicaRoseR5)
The pop culture references came thick and fast…
I’d like to thank award season for Parent Trapping Jen & Brad for us pic.twitter.com/51c0USPYK5
— wittyidiot (@stephenszczerba)
PLOT TWIST: What if Brad and Jen were just on a break all this time? #SAGAwards pic.twitter.com/hyXcsa7eeh
— KATIE (@MusicKillsKatie)
Brad and Jen should just troll everyone to the maximum and cast him as a love interest or something on Morning Show season 2, that show’s already a meta text about her life anyways pic.twitter.com/JHBBIX1IEC
— Frazier Tharpe II (@The_SummerMan)
Along with some more unexpected jokes about… the New York Times' endorsement in the Democratic candidacy race
Thank you to Brad and Jen for making me feel alive again. I hope the NYT endorses.
— Maris Kreizman (@mariskreizman)
NYT editorial board says “the choice is clear: Brad and Jen”
— Molly Lambert 🦔 (@mollylambert)
Pitt's SAG success cements his position as the favourite to take home the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor at the Academy Awards next month. He has received four acting Oscar nominations throughout his career, and has a Best Picture Oscar for 12 Years A Slave, which was produced by his company Plan B.
Other SAG Award winners included Joaquin Phoenix (Best Actor), Renee Zellweger (Best Actress) and Laura Dern (Best Supporting Actress).
South Korean film Parasite was a surprise winner in the Best Ensemble category, beating the likes of Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood, The Irishman and Bombshell.
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