The 42-year-old actress recently appeared on The Hollywood Reporter's podcast Awards Chatter, where she candidly discussed why she wanted to work with Pitt on their critically penned 2015 film, By the Sea. Jolie says she believed at the time that the film would improve their marriage.

"We had met working together and we worked together well," she explains, referring to meeting on the set of 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. "I wanted us to do some serious work together. I thought it would be a good way for us to communicate. In some ways it was, and in some ways we learned some things. But there was a heaviness probably during that situation that carried on and it wasn't because of the film." Jolie acknowledges that outside factors definitely affected their relationship.