Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt write love letters while apart

WHEN the world’s hottest couple are shooting movies on different continents, they have an unusual way of keeping the spark alive.

HOLLYWOOD, CA - MARCH 02: Actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie attend the Oscars held at Hollywood & Highland Center on March 2, 2014 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images)

ANGELINA Jolie and Brad Pitt kept their romance alive by sending each other handwritten love letters when apart for work last year.

The couple spent much time apart while shooting films on two different continents in 2013.

Jolie was directing Unbroken, a biopic about Olympic athlete and World War II hero Louis Zamperini, in Australia, while Pitt was on the other side of the world in London, shooting his own Nazi war film, Fury.

The Hollywood stars decided to embrace the time period their onscreen dramas were set in and shunned modern technology in favour of writing sweet notes to one another by mail.

“He was supportive from a distance, and it was quite romantic in a way,” Jolie told TV Week magazine.

The power couple pictured at the premier of Disney's "Maleficent" in California. Pic: Getty.

“We decided to be of that time, when we could imagine he was in the European theatre and I was in the Pacific theatre, and we wrote handwritten letters to each other that were very connecting for us, thinking of the people that were separated for months, if not years, at a time back then.”

The couple has been engaged since 2012 and have six children together.