--- title: Couple Channel Angelina Jolie, Billy Bob Thornton Red Carpet description: Actors Avan Jogia and Cleopatra Coleman channeled Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton's infamous red carpet moment at a premiere. canonical: https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-10-11T17:35:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:00:48.181Z og:title: This Couple Channeled Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton and to Be Hones They Nailed It og:description: Free Halloween idea: homage to the infamous couple's appearance at a premiere in 2000 og:url: https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc110af18626ccf3c/698a0426b21a9cb3d35027ea/couple-channels-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: "Gone in 60 Seconds" Los Angeles Premiere og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Couple Channeled Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton and to Be Hones They Nailed It twitter:description: Free Halloween idea: homage to the infamous couple's appearance at a premiere in 2000 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc110af18626ccf3c/698a0426b21a9cb3d35027ea/couple-channels-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Couple Recreating Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton's Infamous Red Carpet Moment Is Peak '00s Nostalgia > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. ### Sources * TIME Newsletters: [time.com/newsletters](/c/time-nl-brief-2026q3/newsletters?i=e14d8a63-dbc0-4310-80bd-fa43800e1b60&cr=time-nl-brief-2026q3-v1)  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 11, 2019 5:35 PM UTC  Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton (Photo by S. Granitz/WireImage) Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton (Photo by S. Granitz/WireImage) Steve.Granitz/INACTIVE—WireImage  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 11, 2019 5:35 PM UTC The current wave of [early ’00s nostalgia](https://time.com/4531146/halloween-costume-ideas-early-2000s/) may have reached its peak this week when a young couple channeled former couple [Angelina Jolie](https://time.com/5609562/angelina-jolie-refugees-help/) and Billy Bob Thornton’s infamous red carpet moment for the 2000 movie, _Gone in 60 Seconds_, for a red carpet premiere of their own. Avan Jogia, the star of _Zombieland: Double Tap_, and his girlfriend, actress Cleopatra Coleman, dressed in outfits for the _Zombieland_ premiere that were nearly identical to those that Jolie and Thornton wore for the premiere of her movie, _Gone in 60 Seconds_. Jogia wore brown leather pants, a red and white print button-down and baseball cap like the ones sported by Thornton, while Coleman wore a pair of black leather pants and a light blue crop top, along with a temporary tattoo that read “Avan Jogia” paid homage to the real one that Jolie had gotten for Thornton that read “Billy Bob.” The couple furthered the comparison by posing in the same manner as Thornton and Jolie. Jogia and Coleman have been dating since 2017\. Thornton and Jolie’s short-lived union from 2000 to 2002 was one of the most memorable moments of 2000s celebrity culture; the pair tied the knot in 2000 after just two months of dating and were known for their quirky ways of showing romance, like wearing [lockets of each other’s blood around their necks.](https://www.eonline.com/news/590687/billy-bob-thornton-explains-why-angelina-jolie-wanted-to-wear-a-vial-of-his-blood-around-her-neck) See how Jogia and Coleman channeled Jolie and Thornton below. > [](https://twitter.com/JarettSays/status/1182665367639998465) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/"},"headline":"Couple Recreating Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton's Infamous Red Carpet Moment Is Peak '00s Nostalgia","datePublished":"2019-10-11T17:35:02.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:00:48.181Z","description":"It was an homage to the infamous couple's appearance at a premiere in 2000","url":"https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc110af18626ccf3c/698a0426b21a9cb3d35027ea/couple-channels-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc110af18626ccf3c/698a0426b21a9cb3d35027ea/couple-channels-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"\"Gone in 60 Seconds\" Los Angeles Premiere","caption":"\"Gone in 60 Seconds\" Los Angeles Premiere","creditText":"Steve.Granitz/INACTIVE—WireImage","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5698540/avan-jogia-cleopatra-coleman-angelina-jolie-billy-bob-thornton-red-carpet/","name":"Couple Recreating Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton's Infamous Red Carpet Moment Is Peak '00s Nostalgia"}}]}] ```