 After a two-month courtship, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas.They had met on the set of "Pushing Tin" (1999), but did not pursue a relationship at that time as Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern, while Jolie was reportedly dating actor Timothy Hutton, her co-star in "Playing God" (1997).As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love—most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks—their marriage became a favorite topic of the entertainment media.