'By the Sea' was inspired by her mother, says Angelina Jolie Pitt
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- Published on Saturday, 14 November 2015 14:58
- Written by CS monitor
Jolie Pitt directs and stars with Brad Pitt in the film 'Sea,' which follows a couple struggling with their marriage who travel to a seaside hotel. 'It was important to try to do it for my mother,' the actress and director said."By the Sea" is a very personal film for Angelina Jolie Pitt — and not just because it reunites her onscreen with her husband, Brad Pitt. It's not even because she wrote, directed, produced, and stars in the film."By the Sea" is personal because it was inspired by the grief of losing her mother in 2007, Jolie Pitt said at the film's premiere, AFI Fest's opening-night gala at Hollywood's TCL Chinese Theatre.She started writing when she was missing her mother, without knowing exactly what she was creating. "When you write something from a blank page, it's very hard to say, 'This is important,' because you don't know: It's your own life. It's your own depression. It's your own questions about your mother. Grief. Where to put your pain," Jolie Pitt said. "For me, it was important to try to do it. And it was important to try to do it for my mother. It was important for myself. And it was wonderful to work with Brad, and for us to be able to get through it together, because we tested ourselves to see if we could do something like this together." "By the Sea" is a slow, quiet drama about a wealthy American couple on a French seaside retreat. Roland (Pitt) is there to write, but mostly just ends up drinking. Vanessa (Jolie Pitt) is there to relax, but ends up grumping around and popping pills. They avoid each other and their relationship is clearly strained. Their dynamic begins to change when they befriend (and secretly spy on) a newlywed couple on their honeymoon.
As in 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," the two stars play a married pair facing serious relationship challenges. Only this time, the actors relied on the strength of their real-life relationship to do it."It's really no different than trying to get the kids to bed at night," Pitt said." I mean, you know, it's a tag team, Ultimate Wrestling kind of endeavor. And here on set, again, we're working together and solving problems and making the thing work and figuring it out. And there's just a great collaboration. She's just, she's my wife." As for being directed by his spouse? "She's very decisive. She's really intuitive," Pitt said. "Her instincts are really good with stories. So, I really trust her when she redirects a scene." Jolie Pitt loved working with her husband, too."You're going to have a long life ahead of you and you've got to shake it up and, sometimes, it's really wonderful to test yourselves, to push each other," she said. I talked to (actress) Gena Rowlands. She was talking before, and how she and (director-husband) John (Cassavetes) (would) take the rubber band and you stretch it as far as you can. And this is a part of marriage and this is wonderful. So, that I loved. And that was what we did."
"By the Sea" opens in theaters Nov. 13
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Angelina Jolie Reveals What Filming Sex Scenes With Brad Pitt Was Really Like
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- Published on Friday, 13 November 2015 05:15
- Written by Marie Claire
Imagine filming a sex scene with Brad Pitt - pretty nice, right? But imagine if you were his wife, and you have actual sex with him anyway, and you're directing and co-starring, and there are plenty of people watching. Pretty awkward, we'd imagine.In a new interview, Angelina Jolie, admitted that filming the sex scenes in their upcoming movie By The Sea was the 'strangest thing'.'It’s the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that’s showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you're directing him to come in and make love to you,' Ange told Entertainment Weekly. '[And] in front of a bunch of other men with cameras.'Love scenes are strange anyway, but when you're doing a love scene with a person that you really have sex with?' she added. 'The only way to get through it was for us to all talk about the absurdity of it and make sure no one was feeling awkward.'She also revealed that Brad was very protective of her during the scenes.'I couldn't get out of the bathtub to get to the monitor because the director is naked,' she said. 'We're artists and want to be free, but Brad - it's his wife. He was on towel duty. He'd hold the towel over me.'
Brad previously said that being directed by his wife was 'sexy', saying: 'If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife. Surprising how much I enjoy the direction of my wife. She's decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife-sharp, and I might say, sexy at her post. I trust her with my life.'Angelina also talked about filming naked scenes after undergoing her double mastectomy, saying she hopes to inspire other women going through the same problems. 'The surgeries still allow you to be a woman,' she said. 'I hope other women - anyone who is worried about those issues and how [your body] can feel or look - can see that through [the scene]. I’m happy that will be in there if that answers something for them.' In the movie (which we can't wait to see), there are also scenes where Brad and Angelina's characters get into huge bust-ups - but the way in which they went about getting inspired was fairly unusual.'Brad and I had this one day when we were like, "Let's just do ridiculous things and see what happens,"' Angelina said. 'By the end of it, he had pissed all over my shoes, I had packed up the entire [hotel] room to leave, and he wrote "pillhead" with an arrow on my head with a Sharpie while [my character] was sleeping.' Well, this is one movie we can't wait to see...
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Brangelina Film ‘By The Sea’ Trounced By Critics Before Release
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:24
- Written by Radar Online
Movie received only 45% on Rotten Tomatoes—read the scathing reviews! Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been busy promoting their latest film together, By The Sea, but is the new feature doomed for failure already? While the movie centers around a troubled couple headed for divorce, Jolie—whose frame seems to be shrinking rapidly as of late—said in a recent interview that it served as a fun honeymoon project for the pair, and couldn’t be made had they not been a happy couple in real life. Unfortunately, By The Sea may be a repeat offense of Jolie’s directorial debut film Unbroken, already receiving snubs and slams after its initial screenings and even receiving a lousy 45% on Rotten Tomatoes.“This languid piece of would-be art cinema will prove once again that even the biggest names in the world won’t draw an audience to something that, in and of itself, has no reason for being,” top critic Todd McCarthy of the Hollywood Reporter ripped into the film on Rotten Tomatoes. Justin Chang of Variety was equally unforgiving in his review, writing: “An unabashed vanity project that struggles to turn its own beautiful inertia into a virtue.” Ouch! Meanwhile, audience commenters on the film review website slammed the film in a less flowery manner.“Awful movie don’t waste your money,” Nick M. wrote after screening the couple’s highly-anticipated film.
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Christina Applegate Pregnant after Talking to Angelina Jolie?
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- Published on Wednesday, 11 November 2015 20:29
- Written by Classical Lite
Despite having had cancer, Christina Applegate is supposedly determined to have another baby with husband, Martyn LeNoble. According to the latest gossip news updates, the Married with Children sex-symbol has decided to adopt after talking to her famous friends that have done the same -- like Sandra Bullock, Charlize Theron and Angelina Jolie. And while Applegate won't be getting pregnant again, she will be teaming up with fellow hot moms Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell for in a raucous new comedy from STX.At 43-years-old Christina Applegate was supposedly having second thoughts about growing her family with husband, Martyn LeNoble, but after talking to a few well-known friends, Al Bundy's eldest was back on track.One source in the latest November 15, issue of the National Enquirer claimed that after speaking with all her famous friends that have adopted, Christina made up her mind to go the same route: Christina Applegate Pregnant after Talking to Angelina Jolie? "Christina has been inspired by her A-list friends who have adopted, including Sheryl Crow, Charlize Theron and Sandra Bullock, as well as Angelina Jolie."Christina thinks it'd be best for her health and for her expanding family it she played it safe and had her ovaries removed before their little bundle of joy arrives."
While Applegate didn't get into any plans to adopt during her recent interview with Us Weekly, the Married with Children alum did talk about how important it is for her to raise her daughter, Sadie, with the right values, as well as her perfect vacation (via Belfast Telegraph): "Growing up, my mom and I would go to Manhattan and that was the best thing for me in the world... Sadie loves it."We don't take cabs -- we ride the subway and walk everywhere. I want her to know what the real place is...even the stinky parts!" "My favorite vacation is where I can just lie down and have people bring me things. My husband always says, 'Let's rent a house!' I'm like, 'That requires cooking our food and cleaning dishes, man! Let's get a villa with a staff and just lie there.' "He says, 'We'll be poor really soon.'" Applegate's going bankrupt sounds even more unlikely, however, that NE's claims that she is looking to adopt.According to Variety, Christina will soon be teaming up with both Mila Kunis and Kristen Bell for a film that is set to be the next Bridesmaids:"The film follows three moms who embark on a quest to liberate themselves from their mundane, everyday chores, accidentally landing themselves on a collision course with their children's school's PTA president and her blindly devoted clique of 'perfect' moms." Well...if Christina and Martyn do ever decide to have another child, at least, she'll have the money to take the kid on a couple swanky vacations.
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Angelina Jolie on Relationship with Brad Pitt: 'We Have Days When We Drive Each Other Absolutely Mad'
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- Published on Monday, 09 November 2015 11:53
- Written by People
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie Pitt made a "private pact" while filming By the Sea, their first film together in 10 years: "We were going to try to be as open and honest and emotive as possible and give to each other as much as we could," Jolie told The Telegraph, "and, succeed or fail, we would just lay it bare." The shoot, a working honeymoon in Malta, wasn't always smooth sailing, Jolie Pitt told the paper, in a candid discussion of the personal and professional work that went into the film. "There were days during filming last year when we were really worried and it was hard," she said. "But," she continued, "at the end we came out of it thinking, 'This was the best honeymoon,' because the film says, 'Whatever you go through, weather the storm and stick together.' " .Jolie Pitt, 40, said the couple thought By the Sea might be a similar filming experience as Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005 – "that kind of fun. " "But [we] realized very quickly that it wasn't," she said. "Then we joked that this is what happens after 10 years of marriage." Still, Jolie Pitt was clear that By the Sea, a drama about a marriage on the brink, which she wrote and directed, is not autobiographical."Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters were even remotely close to our problems we couldn't have made the film," she said."To be clear: we have fights and problems like any other couple. We have days when we drive each other absolutely mad and want space, but the problems in the movie aren't our specific problems," she said.Directing her husband, 51, for the first time posed its own challenges because Jolie Pitt said she knows the actor so well."These were very sensitive themes and I know Brad's triggers and what he can do and what he is thinking about, so I had to step away and just be very careful in how he was directed," Jolie Pitt said.She said she "tried to give him a safe space and tell him to trust me and I would do my best to protect him in the editing room if he would be as open and give me as much of himself and his emotions and his honesty – and he did." "I think he worked very hard," she said. "The strangest things were the scenes when we were fighting," she said, "and it was so weird trying to tell him to fight with me better." Pitt, for his part, told PEOPLE he has "no desire" to direct his wife: "I'd rather work for her."
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