Angelina Jolie Wearing Ring From Brad Pitt To Get Him Back?
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 10:28
- Written by Gossip Cop
Did Angelina Jolie wear a sentimental ring given to her by Brad Pitt at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival to get him back? That’s the claim from one particular tabloid. Gossip Cop, however, can reveal the truth.The absurd allegation comes from the latest issue of the National Enquirer, which blares in a new headline, “Aching Angie Puts Brad’s Ring On It!” In the accompanying story, the supermarket tabloid ridiculously asserts that the “desperate” actress purposely wore a ring given to her by Pitt at this year’s Telluride Film Festival to lure him back. A so-called “source” is quoted as saying, “Angie hoped Brad would see the photos [of her] and be moved by it. The ring is very special to both of them.”The Enquirer, which is no stranger to publishing inaccurate stories about the former couple, goes on to contend that Jolie wore the ring on the red carpet in an effort to send Pitt a “signal,” hoping to reignite a spark and eventually reunite with the actor. “She’s tried to raise six kids on her own, while managing her career and health. Now, she knows she can’t do it without Brad. She’s praying that this romantic symbol can bring them back together,” further purports the outlet’s questionable insider.Let the preposterous scenario sink in. Jolie wore a ring that Pitt gave her, and on the off-chance he saw paparazzi pictures of her sporting that small bauble, magically he would reverse course and take Jolie back. That’s insane.Allow Gossip Cop to be the voice of reason and to set the record straight on this wholly manufactured tale. As improbable as the claims is, we checked with a source close to the actress who tells us the outlet’s latest report is simply “nonsense.” Jolie, who attended the premiere of her new Netflix film First They Killed My Father at the 2017 Telluride Film Festival earlier this month, did not purposely wear a ring given to her by Pitt, hoping he would see the photos and be so incredibly moved to take her back. It’s all lies.As we noted above, this is hardly the first time Gossip Cop has busted the publication for seemingly fabricating bogus reports about Jolie. Interestingly, though the tabloid alleges the actress wants to reunite with Pitt, a few months ago it published a wholly fictitious article that maintained Jolie was dating a mystery man. That report had the headline of “In Love Angelina Replaces Brad!” And nine months ago, Gossip Cop corrected the same untrustworthy publication when it ran a cover story that swore up and down that Jolie was on a hunger strike and dying. Like those older debunked claims, the current one also doesn’t ring true.
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Angelina Jolie looks the picture of elegance in a flowing silk dress and matching jacket as she arrives at Q&A for her new film First They Killed My Father in LA
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 03:36
- Written by Daily mail
She's been doing the rounds promoting her new film First They Killed My Father.And Angelina Jolie was once again dressed to impress when she arrived at the Q&A for the upcoming documentary in Los Angeles on Saturday, looking elegant as ever.The Hollywood veteran stunned in a cream silk ensemble, making a glamorous arrival at the event.Angelina sported a loose white dress with a matching duster jacket featuring subtle fringing on the hemline.The brunette beauty carried a smart designer handbag, coordinating her arm candy with her nude stilettos.She flashed a big grin as she was met with a swarm of fans at the event, highlighting her pout with red lipstick. This comes after Angelina was joined by her father Jon Voight at the NYC premiere for her new film on Thursday night.They were estranged for more than six and a half years, but have made amends. The 42-year-old Tomb Raider star was typically striking in a strapless grey grown, which displayed her sprawling back tattoo, as she posed on the carpet in the Big Apple - alongside her father, 78. The stunning grey dress first cinched in at her famously slender waist, before falling into soft pleats all the way to the floor.Pulling into a strapless design to leave the back open, the dress drew attention to her famously sprawling back tattoo, as well as a smaller inking on her arm, as she posed effortlessly for cameras. She pulled her brunette locks into a loose half-up do, and elegantly tied her look together with glittering diamond earrings and matching necklace.Of course the Oscar-winner's make-up was perfectly applied, and accentuated her naturally striking features with a smokey eye and bright crimson lipstick.Promoting a film she both directed and co-wrote, Angelina was also supported by her father Jon at the event - who lookeddapper in a classic midnight blue suit.Keeping co-ordinated, he layered a light blue shirt and carbon crosshatch tie underneath, but casually finished his look with matching navy trainers. Proving the event to be a family affair however, Angelina also brought all six of her children to the event. While Angelina obviously turned heads thanks to her grey backless gown, she made sure to get several photos with her two eldest children, Maddox, 16 and Pax, 13, as they also worked on the movie.Maddox, who was actually born in Cambodia, was invited by his mother to participate as an executive producer, and shined on the red carpet in a black suit paired with a simple white t-shirt.Pax served as the set photographer, and looked equally dapper in a black on black ensemble.Meanwhile Zahara, 12, looked to be enjoying herself in a black lace top and black trouser combination, while Shiloh, 11, opted for a grey suit minus a tie.Finally, twins Knox and Vivienne, aged nine, also looked to be having fun, with Knox donning a classic black suit and his sister choosing a black vest and trouser look.All of the children also wore a yellow flower somewhere on their person, while their mother placed hers in her hair.While the exact meaning of the flowers is not known, E! News reports them as plumerias, which are thought to symbolise positivity and are worn at special occasions. The premiere of the Netflix film comes after Angelina met with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres at the Manhattan headquarters on Thursday.The Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees easily defied her 41 years in a white silk blouse, brown pencil skirt, and nude pumps selected by stylist Jen Rade.Rather than taking vacuous selfies or developing clothing lines, Angelina has made over 60 trips to the field as part of her work with the do-gooding intergovernmental organization.
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Ink-credible! Angelina Jolie flaunts her massive tattoo in backless gown as formerly estranged father Jon Voight joins her at premiere of her new film in NYC
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- Published on Monday, 18 September 2017 03:37
- Written by Daily mail
They were estranged for more than six and a half years.But it seems Angelina Jolie is back on good terms with her father Jon Voight, as he joined her at the NYC premiere for her new film First They Killed My Father on Thursday night.The 42-year-old Tomb Raider star was typically striking in a strapless grey grown, which displayed her sprawling back tattoo, as she posed on the carpet in the Big Apple - alongside her father, 78. The stunning grey dress first cinched in at her famously slender waist, before falling into soft pleats all the way to the floor.Pulling into a strapless design to leave the back open, the dress drew attention to her famously sprawling back tattoo, as well as a smaller inking on her arm, as she posed effortlessly for cameras. She pulled her brunette locks into a loose half-up do, and elegantly tied her look together with glittering diamond earrings and matching necklace.Of course the Oscar-winner's make-up was perfectly applied, and accentuated her naturally striking features with a smokey eye and bright crimson lipstick.Promoting a film she both directed and co-wrote, Angelina was also supported by her father Jon at the event - who lookeddapper in a classic midnight blue suit.Keeping co-ordinated, he layered a light blue shirt and carbon crosshatch tie underneath, but casually finished his look with matching navy trainers. Proving the event to be a family affair however, Angelina also brought all six of her children to the event. While Angelina obviously turned heads thanks to her grey backless gown, she made sure to get several photos with her two eldest children, Maddox, 16 and Pax, 13, as they also worked on the movie.Maddox, who was actually born in Cambodia, was invited by his mother to participate as an executive producer, and shined on the red carpet in a black suit paired with a simple white t-shirt.Pax served as the set photographer, and looked equally dapper in a black on black ensemble.Meanwhile Zahara, 12, looked to be enjoying herself in a black lace top and black trouser combination, while Shiloh, 11, opted for a grey suit minus a tie.Finally, twins Knox and Vivienne, aged nine, also looked to be having fun, with Knox donning a classic black suit and his sister choosing a black vest and trouser look.All of the children also wore a yellow flower somewhere on their person, while their mother placed hers in her hair.While the exact meaning of the flowers is not known, E! News reports them as plumerias, which are thought to symbolise positivity and are worn at special occasions. The premiere of the Netflix film comes after Angelina met with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres at the Manhattan headquarters on Thursday.The Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees easily defied her 41 years in a white silk blouse, brown pencil skirt, and nude pumps selected by stylist Jen Rade.Rather than taking vacuous selfies or developing clothing lines, Angelina has made over 60 trips to the field as part of her work with the do-gooding intergovernmental organization.
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Angelina Jolie dons brown pencil skirt to meet with UN Secretary General António Guterres in NYC
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- Published on Friday, 15 September 2017 11:40
- Written by Daily mail
Following the Toronto Film Festival premiere of her fifth directorial effort, Angelina Jolie met with United Nations Secretary General António Guterres at the Manhattan headquarters on Thursday.The Special Envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees easily defied her 41 years in a white silk blouse, brown pencil skirt, and nude pumps selected by stylist Jen Rade.Hairstylist Adam Campbell blew out the Oscar winner's naturally brunette locks and she finished off her business attire with diamond earring and a crimson pout and manicure.Rather than taking vacuous selfies or developing clothing lines, Angelina has made over 60 trips to the field as part of her work with the do-gooding intergovernmental organization.On Wednesday, Jolie gave an update on her tough divorce from estranged third husband Brad Pitt after 12 years together. 'None of it's easy. It's very, very difficult, a very painful situation, and I just want my family healthy,' the By the Sea director admitted to the New York Times.'They're getting better.'The former Hollywood wild child's big blended brood - including Zahara, 12; Shiloh, 11; and twins Vivienne & Knox, 9 - attended the TIFF premiere of First They Killed My Father on Monday.It currently holds a 76 percent critic approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, a 70 percent approval rating on MetaCritic, and a 6.7/10 on IMDb.The Khmer-language drama - which begins streaming Friday on Netflix - is based on human rights activist Loung Ung's 2006 memoir about the 2M lives lost during the Cambodian genocide 40 years ago.Angelina's 16-year-old son Maddox (born Rath Vibol) received an executive-producing credit for the film and her 13-year-old son Pax shot still photography for it.'They really help me so much. We're really such a unit,' Jolie gushed.'They're the best friends I've ever had. Nobody in my life has ever stood by me more.'Earlier this month, the Kung Fu Panda 3 actress confirmed she would soon begin production on the sequel to the hit Disney villain origin story Maleficent.'I am now the breadwinner for the family so it’s time,' Angie told Deadline on September 3.'We have been working on the script and this is going to be a really strong sequel.'But first, Jolie executive-produced the Afghanistan-set animated feature The Breadwinner, which hits US theaters November 17 and UK theaters May 25.Nora Twomey's flick, based on the 2001 novel by Deborah Ellis, centers on a headstrong girl who disguises herself as a boy to provide for her family after her father gets arrested.
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Angelina Jolie on 'First They Killed My Father': "I made it for Cambodia"
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- Published on Friday, 15 September 2017 00:00
- Written by Screen Daily
Angelina Jolie, actress, filmmaker and human-rights activist, makes her most personal work yet with a 1970s-set drama about the Cambodian genocide. She talks to Screen about her Toronto international premiere First They Killed My Father.Angelina Jolie chanced upon Loung Ung’s bestselling memoir First They Killed My Father in a Cambodian market some 17 years ago while shooting Tomb Raider — “a two-dollar paperback you find when travelling” that was as far removed as one can get from Lara Croft leaping across temples in the steaming jungle.For Jolie, the book and the stirring yet unsentimental film adaptation it would inspire seemed to crystallise so much of the dignity and despair she had witnessed in the stricken Southeast Asian country she would return to again and again as a humanitarian activist and, later, a citizen and resident.Ung and Jolie met through their activism work when Jolie went back shortly after Tomb Raider. One night they found themselves swaying in hammocks in the middle of a monsoon, talking through the night. “We bonded and she’s been in my life ever since,” Jolie says.Ung was five when the Khmer Rouge emerged from the jungle in 1975 to overthrow Lon Nol’s military rule and turn a once-prosperous former French colonial outpost into an isolated death chamber. She and her middle-class family were marched out of the capital Phnom Penh and into the fields, like millions of city-dwellers across the country. When invading Vietnamese troops overthrew the Khmer Rouge in 1979, the young girl had lost both parents and two of her six -siblings. Around two million people — nearly a quarter of Cambodia’s population — had been wiped out.The two women adapted the screenplay years ago. After several more drafts, Netflix agreed in 2015 to fully finance and produce the project. In June of that year, Jolie enlisted the support of Rithy Panh, the Cambodian director of Khmer Rouge documentary The Missing Picture. Panh became a producer on the Khmer-language project and took the lead in months of meetings with the authorities and NGOs to establish permission to shoot the film on Cambodian soil.The filmmakers had to tread carefully. This was not Thailand, Jolie reminded herself, where The Killing Fields had shot many years before. “You are bringing a film to a country and asking the people who lived through it to recreate a history with you. I really didn’t know if [the authorities] were going to say yes.” Reliving the past.Jolie was prepared to scale back the production and work within whatever framework the authorities would provide. However, she got what she wanted and the 50-day shoot in Siem Reap and Battambang finally got underway in November 2015.
“Then, of course, you get to the set and you’re standing there with your friend and you have to recreate scenes of her father being taken and killed, and you have to try to walk through the steps of somebody’s life.” Jolie pauses and her voice fades a little. “You bring back. You bring back the people who passed. You bring back her sisters. And, of course, it was always the happy scenes that seemed to make her the most upset.”Jolie and her international heads of department and crew trained local counterparts, corralled large numbers of extras, braved tarantulas and snakes in the jungle, and avoided landmines and other unexploded ordnance. “Luckily, we were able to complete the film without a single incident on set,” she says.Navigating through complicated emotional terrain was harder. The local crew helped to communicate with the largely inexperienced cast, which included Sareum Srey Moch, the nine-year-old -newcomer who played Ung without acting classes and impressed her director.Moch took part in a casting process that came under scrutiny in a recent cover story in Vanity Fair, which suggested that the filmmakers had used emotional manipulation during child auditions, triggering angry comments online about Jolie.The UN goodwill ambassador and mother of six issued a firm rebuttal with Panh. When the subject is mentioned, Jolie says she regards the matter as closed, but stresses that guardians and parents were present at all times during child auditions, and all parties knew the process involved make-believe.Throughout filming, her goal was to foster a therapeutic and cathartic environment for her cast, employing NGO staff, educators, de-miners and a therapist. “The country really doesn’t talk about this time and everybody in their mid-40s remembers,” Jolie says. “So when you have a scene where suddenly everyone comes dressed in Khmer Rouge outfits with guns, people were having experiences, they were remembering. Some people were talking for the first time.”First They Killed My Father has enabled Jolie to feel even closer to a country she has lived and worked in for 14 years. “When you direct a film it is very different from when you act in a film, when you try to give your all and it’s a few months of your life and you have your part to play,” she states. “When you direct a film, it’s years of your life and it has to really matter to you because it’s all-consuming.“For me, these are the things that matter and these films are about trying to understand man’s inhumanity to man and how the human spirit overcomes, how you can go through darkness and come out stronger and still whole,” she continues. “When you do a film about history and culture, you’re allowed into something so special.“With this particular film all the more so because although Maddox [Jolie’s adopted eldest son, a native Cambodian] goes back often with me and we have a foundation there, this was the first time he was able to spend months there and study the history of his country, really understanding, going deep into what his birth parents most likely went through, and coming to terms with that and knowing who he is.”
Giving back.Sixteen-year-old Maddox served as an executive producer on the film and was there from the start, working long hours on drafts and physical production, and acting as a sounding board. “I wanted him to work hard and give back himself to his country,” says Jolie, who is in no doubt about who she made the film for. “I made it for Cambodia. I made it as a kind of thank you, a love letter. There hadn’t been a story on this scale that would reach people in their language, with them being the hero.”Did she every worry that as a non-native the Cambodians would question her right to make a film like First They Killed My Father? “You’d probably have to ask the Cambodians. It was 2005 when I became a citizen. I’ve been there about 14 years, coming and going, doing my work. We feel… I am a Cambodian. We are a Cambodian family. We’re a Namibian family, an Ethiopian family, an American family. That’s who we are,” Jolie says, referring to the nationalities of her adopted and biological children. “I don’t feel outside in that country. And I didn’t feel I was there to take their history and tell their story. I was just a vessel for them to tell their story.”The drama received its world premiere in February, outdoors at the Angkor Wat complex. Jolie and Ung could not sleep the night before, but they need not have worried — the screening and those that followed across Cambodia in the following weeks “sparked a bigger discussion in the country among families who have not discussed [the genocide]”.Netflix will launch First They Killed My Father worldwide on September 15, following a brief theatrical run in Cambodia. Jolie likes the idea it will be on a streaming platform, there for viewers to watch when they feel ready. “On my first film [as director on 2011’s In The Land Of Blood And Honey], a lot of people who were Bosnian said they needed to stop, take a break and come back, so I was very aware of that.”She is not exactly sure what’s next. Family, probably acting. She signed on to Disney’s Maleficent sequel, and laughs when Bill Condon’s Bride Of Frankenstein reboot is mentioned. “There has been a discussion, but we’re not quite there. How many monsters can one play, really?”
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