Jolie’s latest film comes as she battles Pitt, 60, in a legal showdown over their multimillion-dollar French winery, Chateau Miraval.
When a judge rejected Jolie’s request to dismiss her ex-husband’s lawsuit over her sale of the winery, paving the way for a lawsuit, an insider said Pitt has reached the point of “begging” her to show him their children. , most of whom dropped his last name during their parents’ legal battles.
The source said: “Brad hasn’t given up on his children and it has been incredibly difficult for him to be so estranged from them. The longer it goes on, the more painful it becomes.
“With the holidays approaching, he is feeling the heartbreak even more and now says he is willing to do whatever it takes to spend some time with them, even if it means swallowing his pride and leaving Angelina asking to show some mercy.”