‘Unbroken’ Actor Miyavi Reveals Angelina Jolie Made Him Physically Sick During Filming
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- Published on Saturday, 08 November 2014 17:19
- Written by IB Times
Angelina Jolie made his “Unbroken” actor physically sick. Japanese singer-actor Miyavi, who plays the sadistic prison camp leader Mutsuhiro Watanabe in the war drama film, was left sobbing after filming intense scenes.Cast member Angelina Jolie poses at the premiere of "Maleficent" at El Capitan theatre in Hollywood, California May 28, 2014. The movie opens in the U.S. on May 30.The film, which is produced and directed by Jolie based on the novel of the same name by Laura Hillenbrand, is based on the story of Olympic athlete Louis Zamperini, who survived a plane crash in the Pacific, only to be caught by the Japanese during the World War II. Zamperini spent over two and a half years as a prisoner of war in Japanese camps.Playing Watanabe, Miyavi filmed scenes wherein he tortured the prisoners of war, including Zamperini (played by Jack O’Connell). Jolie encouraged him to get into character by immersing himself into the mindset of the prison guard leader who was accustomed to violence.“It was awful torture for me to hate the other actors – I had to have hatred for them,” the 33-year-old pop star told Vanity Fair magazine, as quoted by eonline.com. “When I had to beat them, I had to think about protecting my family. At the same time, I didn’t want to be just a bad guy. I wanted to put humanity in this role. [Matsuhiro] was both crazy and sadistic, but also weak and traumatised.”The torture scenes had Miyavi throw up after, and some of the more violent scenes had him crying nonstop.“It’s a story that is still painful for my country,” he added. “But she [Jolie] told me she wanted to make a bridge between all countries that had conflict. She was very persuasive.”Jolie was also emotional about the film. She watched an early cut of the film with Zamperini before the war hero died on July 2 at age 97.“I was more emotional than he was,” Brad Pitt’s wife previously told Vanity Fair of Zamperini. “I went in to take care of him – and he was taking care of me.”“Unbroken,” which was shot in Australia, also stars Garrett Hedlund, Jai Courtney, Domhnall Gleeson, Finn Wittrock, John Magaro, Luke Treadaway, Travis Jeffery and Alex Russell. It will hit theatres on December 25.
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Angelina Jolie's Daughter Zahara Tattled on Brother Maddox For Kissing His Girlfriend
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- Published on Thursday, 06 November 2014 05:01
- Written by US Magazine
Kissing and telling! Angelina Jolie's daughter Zahara, 9, once tattled on her big brother Maddox, 13, for kissing his girlfriend, and Vanity Fair writer Janine Di Giovanni was there to witness the adorable sibling moment.Giovanni, who wrote the December 2014 cover story on the actress, director and humanitarian, recalled the incident, which took place in Jolie's hotel room when little Zahara ran to Jolie to spill that her bro was getting cozy with his lady friend."Her daughter Zahara wanders in and leans over, 'What honey?' Jolie asks her," Di Giovanni writes. "With their faces pressed close together, Zahara shares a secret, prompting a laugh. Later, Jolie says in a mock-staged whisper, 'She said Mad and his girlfriend are kissing.'" Brad Pitt's wife outed her teenage son's love life herself during a May 2014 interview with Entertainment Tonight. "He's dating, he's got a girlfriend," she admitted. "She's great. I won't embarrass him. She's lovely. She lives in England. She's very cool."
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Angelina Jolie pays radio tribute to late Olympian Louis Zamperini
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- Published on Wednesday, 05 November 2014 18:09
- Written by BBC
Actress and director Angelina Jolie has recorded a tribute to Louis Zamperini for a Radio 4 documentary about the late Olympian and prisoner of war.In the programme, to be broadcast on Friday, Jolie calls Zamperini "one of the greatest people I've ever met"."He was somebody that was so full of love and life and it was contagious."Jolie has made a film about Zamperini, entitled Unbroken, that dramatises his experiences at the 1936 Berlin Olympics and during World War Two.Born in 1917 in New York state, Zamperini competed in the 5,000 metres at Berlin before enlisting in the US Army.He served as a bombardier during the war and survived 47 days adrift on a raft after his plane crashed into the Pacific.Eventually picked up by a Japanese patrol, he spent the next two years in prison camps before finally returning home.He went on to become a devout Christian and devoted his life to teaching the importance of forgiveness.Zamperini, who is played by British actor Jack O'Connell in Jolie's film, died in July at the age of 97."They say to never meet your heroes because they disappoint you, but Louis was my hero," the actress will be heard telling historian Dr Uta Balbier in Friday's tribute."He reminded me of the power of the individual spirit and a sense of purpose, and overcoming obstacles."If you were around him you became a better person who looked at life differently and it helped to remind me of that." The Louis Zamperini Story will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 7 November at 11:00 GMT.
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Angelina Jolie hints she may be ready to run for office
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 November 2014 20:41
- Written by Page Six
She has won an Oscar and regularly conquers the box office — so how hard could winning an election be? Globe-trotting Hollywood do-gooder Angelina Jolie hints in a new interview that she’s ready to enter politics.“When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility,” Jolie, 39, tells Vanity Fair’s December issue.“I honestly don’t know in what role I would be more useful — I am conscious of what I do for a living, and that [could] make it less possible,” said Jolie, director and a special envoy for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.Pushed further, she admitted, “I am open” to pursing politics.Jolie — who directed the upcoming film “Unbroken,” about Olympian-turned-war hero Louis Zamperini — also dished on tying the knot with Brad Pitt, her partner of 10 years.“It does feel different,” she said. “It feels nice to be husband and wife.”The pair got hitched in the South of France in August, and Jolie said their six children lent a hand.“There was no cake, so Pax made a cake,” she said, referring to their second-oldest son.“The kids made little pillows for the rings, and Knox practiced [being a ringbearer] with an acorn that kept falling off the pillow. Brad’s mom went and picked some flowers and tied them up.”
She said their kids wrote her and Pitt’s vows.“They did not expect us never to fight, but they made us promise to always say ‘sorry’ if we do. So they said, ‘Do you?’ and we said, ‘We do!’ ” Jolie said.She noted both she and Pitt worked on war movies at the same time recently with Pitt on the World War II tank thriller “Fury” and her on “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”They sent each other notes in the mail to replicate World War II GIs would received letters from loved ones back home, she said.She broke down in tears discussing the true story behind “Unbroken,” due out next month, and Zamperini’s incredible tale of survival.Zamperini, who ran in the 1936 Berlin Games, flew in the Air Force and was shot down over the Pacific. He floated at sea for 47 days before he was captured and sent to a Japanese POW camp.“It was an extremely emotional experience, to watch someone watching their own life … someone so physically strong … and they are at the stage where their body is giving up,” she said.
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Driving Mrs Jolie-Pitt: Brad gets behind the wheel of a classic convertible to shoot scenes for By The Sea with wife Angelina
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- Published on Tuesday, 04 November 2014 04:58
- Written by Daily Mail
Driving Mrs Jolie-Pitt: Brad gets behind the wheel of a classic convertible to shoot scenes for By The Sea with wife Angelina... as their working honeymoon continues
They tied the knot in an intimate ceremony in France on August 23 but Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have been hard at work since then. Indeed, even their honeymoon has had to come second to their filming commitments as the duo have been shooting By The Sea, written and directed by Angelina, in Malta since just after their wedding. The couple were spotted filming scenes in a classic convertible in Gozo on Monday with Brad behind the wheel and Angelina in the passenger seat. While he drove the car along the island, they were joined by a film crew perched precariously on the back. This is the couple's first project together since Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005 - the film which saw them falling in love both on and off screen.By The Sea documents the challenge a longtime married couple face as they go on vacation throughout Europe in the 1970s.It sees 'Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together,’ according to IMDB.‘They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner,' the description added.Speaking about the project to US TV show Extra, Angelina said of the project, 'It's the kind of movie we love but aren't often cast in. It's a very experimental, independent-type film where we get to be actors together and be really raw, open, try things.'
Angelina sports a blonde wig in the film while Brad has been rocking a mustache. Meanwhile, Pitt and Jolie tied the knot in August on the urging of their children, Maddox, 13, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, eight, and six-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox.And their father said the brood is thrilled that the union is now official.He recently told People, 'They like it. They like it.'All six children were very much a part of the nuptials that took place at Chateau Miraval in the South of France on August 23.Jolie wore a floor length white dress with a veil that had the drawings of her little ones on it.'The children wrote vows and asked us to make promises to each other,' said the Maleficent actress. 'It was very sweet what they came up with.'
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