Angelina Jolie and the rest of The Eternals ladies were due to appear at the Elle Women in Hollywood event last night, but it looks like they were exposed to someone with Covid at Monday night’s LA premiere of their film. Hm…
“Eternals” stars Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek, Gemma Chan and Lauren Ridloff and director Chloé Zhao did not attend Elle’s Women in Hollywood event on Tuesday night due to possible exposure to COVID-19.
“Earlier today we were made aware of a possible exposure to COVID-19, and while all of our talent have tested negative, out of an abundance of caution, we are pivoting to virtual appearances rather than in-person events,” a Disney spokesperson told Variety.
Elle editor-in-chief Nina Garcia made the announcement during the event, saying that they “were just exposed, so to keep everyone safe those superheroes are now in super isolation.”
It is unclear how the cast members and director may have been exposed to COVID-19, but they were all in attendance at the Los Angeles premiere of “Eternals” on Monday night.
I mean… IS it unclear? No. Those women attended the premiere on Monday night and then they couldn’t go to an event the next night because they were all mysteriously exposed to Covid at the same time. Someone at the premiere was unvaxxed and unmasked, that’s my guess. And Angelina had five kids with her! I’m assuming most of her kids (if not all) have been vaccinated, but I bet they’re in isolation too.
Meanwhile, I thought that only Zahara wore one of Angelina’s old gowns to the Eternals premiere, but it looks like all of the Jolie-Pitt kids made the effort to either wear vintage or upcycle a look from Angelina’s closet. Jolie said as much on the carpet: “My kids are all mixed with vintage, and in my old Oscars dress. We did all vintage and upcycled my old stuff.” She also told Entertainment Tonight that her kids didn’t like her spandex superhero costume in the movie: “Would you wanna see your mother wearing that? I don’t know, they haven’t seen the movie, but your mom walks in with a gold spandex outfit and gold hair, they’re like, ‘What do you do for a living? What are you? Get back in your robe.'” Why is this cracking me up so much? The Jolie-Pitt kids love their mom but they also find her mega-embarrassing.
A cute red carpet interview with Angelina and Kumail!! I wonder if the exposure happened during the interviews.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Backgrid.
This was my first thought when I saw the photo you posted (from the premiere) of Angelina taking an unmasked selfie with an unmasked fan.
Seemed risky. Hope everyone is okay.
I think its hypocrisy for celebrities to tell the public to wear masks, and talk about the dangers of Covid but they themselves do not follow through in their rhetoric.
Kumail’s wife is severely immunocompromised and they took lock-down extremely seriously as a result. I hope they are ok– Emily is the best!
This was my first thought as well!!!!! Hoping Emily is okay.
I was wondering this about Angelina as well? I know she’s had a number of major medical procedures, though I don’t know if that relates to being immunocompromised.
I think Angelina had pre-emptive surgery due to high genetic risk of cancer, I don’t recall her having immune system issues, but I might be wrong.
Very concerning for Emily though, and anyone else there who is immunocompromised.
People who have, or have had, cancer are often on drugs that leave them immune-compromised, but I don’t think Angelina did have cancer — she had the operations to prevent cancer, since she is at risk due to her genetics.
I thought a lot of places had changed quarantine rules about exposure. That if you were vaccinated, didn’t have symptoms, and tested negative, that you were good to go? I understand the abundance of caution though. I was reading an article last night about how some school districts are doing “test to stay” where if a child is exposed to covid, instead of immediately going into quarantine, they go to a mobile testing site early before school to get tested. If they test negative, they can go to school. Obviously not a feasible choice for districts across the country.
Just goes to show how important mask wearing still is in crowded places.
Do they test for 3-5 days in a row? There’s really no point in testing until at least 3 days post-exposure.
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Yes, test-to-stay uses rapid tests every day for at least 5 days after exposure and you can go to school after every negative test.
@snark that’s good, that should catch most cases
Our son’s school does rapid pool testing for each class 2x/week. If there is a positive result in a class pool, everyone in that class is given a rapid test at the school gate the next day. If it’s negative, in they go. Then there is a pool test again within 1-2 days. So far it’s been working well, there have been a couple of cases since school started two months ago but none of them have evolved into an outbreak. Of course, the kids are all wearing masks and adults in our area are generally on board with vaccination so that helps a lot.
Sorry, but how is that safe?
In it means that if you test positive on day 5, you were walking about the past 5 days carrying the virus but simply not testing positive! Lol.
Well…. but if they test negative now, they can be positive in an hour. Don’t see how this solves anything.
Someone I know had multiple negative tests, and was hospitalized before a positive test came back. Very concerning.
I’m fully vaccinated, got my booster a few weeks ago, and I still always mask up and social distance. I’m act like I did pre-vaccine, assuming that I’m always at risk.
Our kid’s school is doing a ton of testing (2x/week for all students, they do a pool test for each class and then follow up testing if the pool test indicates a positive case). Honestly I think that level of forced testing frequency does get parents thinking a bit more carefully about what activities they engage in outside of school, which significantly reduces risk of transmission. In our case also I would say that although the tests may not be super accurate, the testing frequency means it’s still pretty good odds cases will be caught before they spread much.
It was not at the premiere – it was a make up artist for Gemma and Richard who tasted positive, per person who was at the press conference. Two of them were isolated and were zooming in for press conference yesterday, while all the others were attending. Yesterday afternoon they all went to isolation, so ladies did not attend Elle Women in Hollywood event. They have premiers in Europe next week, so I think they are following the protocol.
Why would that affect the others?
They were all at the premiere in close contact with each other.
I just saw Gemma was at the premiere, I was thinking Gemma and Richard skipped the premiere because of exposure.
No, they skipped the press conference yesterday. I guess they just found yesterday (morning after premiere) that they were exposed.
Read somewhere on the Twitter musings this morning it was one of their make up artists and both Gemma and Richard were doing press isolated away from the others in yesterday’s conference.
Anyway premieres and parties still seem too risky to me particularly without masks. The thought of being in a big crowd like that still seems so daunting.
I refuse to leave the house without double masking but I live in a state of idiots and neanderthals, Texas. I am also quite perplexed how our number of deaths for our county has remained the same for the last 6 months when there are zero ICU beds available and we have had double digit deaths in the past 10.5 months. But what do I know.
You can be vaccinated and still contract, and then pass on covid. That’s why mask wearing for everyone continues to be important.
I was just thinking I hope that make up artist kept their mask on because that’s a close contact job.
I was about to say the same thing. It could have been a vaccinated person that tested positive. People need to remember you are not bullet proof once you get vaccinated. We still need to wear masks and distance ! I really see a lot of carelessness happening. The pandemic is not over folks !
It’s why I’m still hesitant to go back to the dentist, you have to take your mask off there. At all my recent doctor’s appointments we wore masks the whole visit. We called our dentist office but they basically will not tell if you if everyone is vaccinated pretending like it’s some kind of hippa violation. We don’t want names we want to make sure the person cleaning our teeth is vaccinated. Looking at pictures of these packed events leaves me slightly aghast. Just hope this nightmare doesn’t all come back this winter.
It always depends on your dentist, but as far as I know, there have been very few cases linked to dentists. Dentists were hit hard when the HIV pandemic started and ramped up their game accordingly (there was a time where dentists did not use gloves! plus everyone smoked back then…). A dentist office is (should?) already extremely clean, with good ventilation, everything is sanitized and it’s been like that for the past 35 years so they are used to it. And they’re used to wearing masks. I’m sure some of them are nutjobs antivax, butin general, they should be safe to go to
Yup. Had both doses. Still wear a mask. Got a booster and turns out I was already positive for covid. I hate this virus.
Exactly. Anyone vaccinated can still test positive, anyone who tested negative an hour ago can test positive now.
Thank you, @Mary, for reminding people of this fact. Vaccinations protect us, but they also start to lose their full effectiveness after a month or so. This is why we need booster shots. There is no way I would go to crowded event and not wear a mask. It isn’t worth the risk.
100%!
Yes, we were fully vaccinated, but our son who is too young to yet vaccinate, got it at school. Then we all got breakthrough cases. Get the boosters when you can! We were just past the 6mo mark and I think had it been before then we wouldn’t have gotten as sick as we did.
Off topic: is the kid on the right wearing some kind of….half skirt? Very curious.
Other than that, I hope folks don’t come down with it.
It’s a long jacket that is wider in the bottom.
Thank you for asking this question; if you hadn’t, I wouldn’t have zoomed in and I wouldn’t have discovered it’s a green and black tartan pattern which makes the outfit super duper cool IMHO!!
There is nothing scarier or more infuriating than learning that your kids may have been exposed to Covid. I hope everyone isolating tests negative and is okay.
Agreed.
I think people should still be wearing masks.
I agree. With the information we have, it just makes sense.
I agree. I’ve gone to 2 events in the past few weeks, and we had to show vax cards and wear masks the entire time. It made me feel a lot more comfortable, and everyone managed just fine.
Both the interviewer and Kumail are so glammed up and Angelina is all like, “but guys I’m wearing my shiny chin thingy, does that count?”
All I could focus on was POCKETS! I love her outfit 🙂
I have never been attracted to Kumail Nanjiani and honestly dislike Bollywood films. Those shrieking singing voices give me a headache.
Having said that…after watching the first actual trailer, why am I particularly so invested in seeing that Bollywood scene and Nanjiani? Besides all the scenes featuring Thena, the I’ve looking forward the most is the one mentioned above.
ETA.:
Ok, watched the interview.
1 — Why do I have the hots for him now? I need help. Somebody help me;
2 — My Jolie’s chin cuff looks ultra-hyper-mega sexy while she speaks. I need help. From her.
Uh…I noticed Kumail first, so lay off. He’s mine!!!! LOL! And no, you’re not the only one…seeing him in that trailer with buffed arms fighting a Deviant or dancing in a Bollywood production — ALL. OF. IT. IS. DAMN. SEXY.
I hope all the cast members, their families, and loved ones are all safe.
@Mireille:
We can share…
Oh, my OCDs…
When I said “Besides all the scenes featuring Thena, the I’ve looking forward the most is the one mentioned above.”
I actually meant:
“Besides all the scenes featuring Thena, the ONE I’ve BEEN looking forward the most is the one mentioned above.”
AJ is incredibly beautiful, but I didn’t find the chin cuff sexy at all. It looked like she was uncomfortable with it, not wanting to move her mouth too much and checking with her tongue to keep in place.
I thought so too @ Eurydice. She seemed to be having trouble speaking with it, which makes sense given it’s attached to her mouth and jaw.
Angelina’s outfit is so much better in the video than in photos. Looks like billowy pants with pockets. In another interview she said she was comfortable- so props to her for focusing on comfort over what is supposed to be fashionable. Also love what she said about being fragile and strong at the same time… very different than the overdone victim mentality that most celebs take to garner more attention.
Having left an abusive marriage, hearing her talk about her character’s ptsd, worry if she would be strong enough to protect her family, and being fragile and strong at the same time really resonated with me.
One of my coworkers is fully vaccinated (I know because we went together for the shot) and came down with a bad case of covid a few weeks ago. She has pretty bad breathing problems now, and it’s scary that it could’ve been so much worse had she not gotten the vaccine. Like honestly I think she could be dead right now given how sick she was that first week.
My coworker got a breakthrough case back in late August. She was down for the count for three days, but said she bounced back quicker than the unvaccinated relative she got it from; however, she told me last week her sense of taste and smell are maybe 50% back. Hearing that she still has long-haul symptoms, even as a vaccinated person, freaked me out a bit and served as a reminder why I am still masking, distancing, and not resuming too many pre-pandemic activities (unless masks and proof of vaccine are required).
Hoping every one at the premiere are safe from Covid. I was especially concerned for AJ because of her health issues, don’t know if her health issues are considered compromised. It must be scary for everyone.
Off Topic:
All the kids looked beautiful, however, I’ve not seen a close up picture of Shiloh for a long time. She’s has grown into a seriously beautiful young lady. A cross between her mom and dad.