Alia Shawkat Says Brad Pitt Had ‘No Awareness’ of Their 2019 Dating Rumors: ‘I Was Shaken Up’

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Not on his radar. Alia Shawkat was “shaken up” by the rumors about her relationship with Brad Pitt — but he wasn’t even fazed.The Search Party star, 32, reflected on being caught up in the whirlwind of the dating rumors, telling The New Yorker in a new profile that the attention “came in hot and left as fast as it came in.” The twosome initially raised eyebrows when they were spotted together at a November 2019 art exhibition.“It was so weird.

Now it’s like a weird dream, where I’m like, ‘Did that happen?’ … [Brad] had no awareness of it at all. Which is so funny. Because he doesn’t read that s–t,” Shawkat teased in the interview, which was published on Sunday, January 9. “I was like, ‘You know everyone thinks we’re dating?

And there’s this whole thing, and I’m being followed.’ And he was like, ‘I’m sorry. It happens. If you hang out with me, it happens.’ He had no awareness of it at all.”When the pair first sparked dating rumors, a source exclusively told Us Weekly at the time that there was nothing romantic going on between the actors.

While Pitt, 58, may not have been bothered by the speculation, Shawkat’s family kept track of all the headlines.“The other day I was at my grandmother’s house, my father’s mother.