Angelina Jolie swapped red carpets for pickleball paddles as she showed off her competitive side alongside son Pax, 22, in Los Angeles on Saturday.
The Oscar winner, 51, joined Pax at the Support+Feed Pickleball Invitational and Game Night, a star-studded charity event.
Dressed in a chic black top and matching pants topped with a wide-brimmed hat, Jolie didn’t exactly leave all her glamour at home – she still looked every inch the movie star standing next to Pax on the court.
The athletic youngster was seen in full swing, while Jolie looked more than ready for battle, paddle firmly in hand.
Support+Feed, founded in 2020 by Maggie Baird, mother of Billie Eilish and Finneas, fights both climate change and food insecurity, giving the event a purpose beyond the celebrity action.
Baird and Billie’s dad, Patrick O’Connell, were also on hand for the fun, posing with Jolie for plenty of photo ops.
Angelina Jolie swapped red carpets for pickleball paddles as she showed off her competitive side alongside son Pax, 22, in Los Angeles on Saturday
The Oscar winner, 51, joined Pax at the Support+Feed Pickleball Invitational and Game Night, a star-studded charity event
It was certainly a star-studded affair, with the group joined by Spice Girls star Mel C, plus Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard.
Jolie shares Pax with ex-husband Brad Pitt. The former couple reached a divorce settlement in 2024, ending more than eight years of legal battles following their 2016 split. They also share five other children.
The exes are parents to Maddox, 24, Zahara, 21, Shiloh, 20, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 17.
The pickleball outing came just a day after Jolie and Pitt’s son Knox channeled one of his father’s most iconic roles.
The youngster threw himself into a brutal martial arts fight in downtown LA, giving off full Fight Club vibes.
A dedicated Muay Thai enthusiast, Knox has been spotted training and competing in tournaments, and on Friday he showed off a battle-ready physique worthy of Tyler Durden from the 1999 classic.
Squaring off against his opponent in a packed gym, Knox took a few hits but stayed composed, landing his own blows with precision amid the sweaty, chaotic bout.
For someone so young, he moved like a seasoned fighter, ducking, weaving, and delivering kicks and punches with the confidence of a veteran.
Dressed in a chic black top and matching pants topped with a wide-brimmed hat, Jolie didn’t exactly leave all her glamour at home – she still looked every inch the movie star
Jolie looked more than ready for battle, paddle firmly in hand
The outing came just days after Knox joined Jolie and his older siblings to celebrate her graduation from Spelman College – though there was no sign of Pitt himself.
At the ceremony, Knox seemed to channel his father again, sporting dark hair with frosted blond tips reminiscent of Pitt’s signature 90s style.
In an apparent dig at Pitt, Zahara’s name was read at the ceremony as Zahara Marley Jolie, rather than as the hyphenated Jolie-Pitt.
She appeared to publicly remove Pitt’s last name for the first time in her Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority initiation ceremony in late 2023.
Pitt and Jolie were together for about a decade before they married in 2014 but filed for divorce two years later in 2016.
Jolie cited irreconcilable differences and later accused Pitt of abusing both her and their children, which he has denied.
Their lengthy, contentious divorce battle was finalized in late 2024, and since then, many of their kids have dropped Pitt’s surname amid their ongoing estrangement.
Shiloh also now goes by Shiloh Nouvel Jolie as she filed paperwork to legally remove her estranged dad’s surname from her own when she turned 18 in the summer of 2024.
Founded by Billie Eilish’s mother Maggie Baird, Support+Feed fights climate change and food insecurity, with Baird and the singer’s father Patrick O’Connell also attending the event; Above, Baird, O’Connell and Jolie
Then, in February, Maddox dropped Pitt from his professional credits as he appeared as Maddox Jolie in the production notes for the film Couture and screenings of the movie Maria.
In May 2024, Vivienne was credited as Vivienne Jolie, not Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, on the playbill for The Outsiders, the Broadway musical.
Pitt made a shocking remark about his family after his bitter divorce with Jolie officially came to an end, but his fractured relationship with their six children remains unresolved.
Pitt, who believes his relationship with two of his children is ‘unfixable,’ opened up about how important family is to him, amid his ongoing and escalating estrangement from his kids.
Speaking at the F1 premiere in Mexico City, he said: ‘No matter the mistake, you just learn from [it] and move on,’ he told ET. ‘It’ll lead to the next success.’
The Oscar winner continued, ‘When you get to my age, you realize how important it is to surround yourself with the people you love, the people that love you back.’
‘Friends, family, and that’s it,’ he added. ‘From there, we get to go make things. It’s a pretty simple, I think, equation.’
The interview comes after a source exclusively told the Daily Mail how Pitt felt after Pax was pictured last month stumbling out of the Chateau Marmont, propped up by several friends.
Pax, Jolie, Zahara and Maddox in New York in September 2024
Pitt and Jolie had one of Hollywood’s highest-profile romances until their shock split in 2016 – pictured 2015
‘He has zero concern with what Pax does or doesn’t do. [Pax’s] actions reflect who he is,’ the insider said.
‘Brad honestly considers his relationship with Pax unfixable,’ they added.
The source went on to say that the actor doesn’t appear to be planning any outreach to either of his adopted sons: ‘Pax and Maddox have made it abundantly clear how they feel, and Brad has nothing to say about either of them.’
As for his other children, the source said that Pitt ‘holds out hope that the others will one day come around. Time heals wounds.’
A source close to Jolie also hit back at her ex-husband at the time and said: ‘Brad continues to play the victim. His fractured relationship with his children is a direct result of how he has treated them.
‘He should stop blaming others. If he wants to rebuild a relationship with the kids, he should acknowledge his own actions and make amends.’
