Now it's Shiloh, Knox and Zahara's turn! Angelina Jolie and her children visit David Bowie pop-up store in London's Mayfair - days after actress shopped on Oxford Street with daughter Vivienne
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Angelina Jolie was joined by her children as she went on another family shopping trip to the David Bowie '75' pop-up store in London's Mayfair on Thursday.The Oscar-winning actress, 46, who was seen shopping in Oxford Street's H&M with daughter Vivienne, 13 on Tuesday, stepped out with son Knox, 13 and daughters Shiloh, 15 and Zahara, 16.The family carried out bags of their purchases after a shopping spree at the Heddon Street store.Angelina looked chic as she donned a white sweater, paired with flared black trousers and heeled boots for the day out, while holding a hot drink in hand. She wore her tresses in a chic updo and wore a £9 sustainable Evolve Together face mask.According to the brand's website: 'The numbers on these masks are the global coordinates of the Icefields Parkway in Alberta, Canada — a reminder that we’re all connected no matter our gender, religion, race, or where we live.'One of the top-rated drives in the world (with plenty of stops for hiking and picnics), 'Icefields Parkway stretches between two national parks and is home to over 100 ancient glaciers, rocky spires, breathtaking waterfalls, and untouched lakes tucked into valleys and forests.' Meanwhile, Knox cut a trendy figure in a dark hoodie and grey trousers as he joined his mother. Sister Zahara wore a black crop top, jeans and a brown cape as she walked arm-in-arm with her mother. Shiloh, 15, donned a graphic print hoodie and denim shorts, paired with boots. The Bowie pop-up store boasts an array of T-shirts, vinyl, CDs, posters, stickers and hoodies, while also acting as a mini museum to honour the late star. The group also popped into the trendy Dover Street Market - a popular destination among Londoners. The Gone In 60 Seconds actress was joined by daughter Vivienne , 13, for an impromptu visit to the central London branch of H&M, where they were surrounded by stunned shoppers. With her instantly recognisable features concealed behind a precautionary face covering, Angelina browsed the budget rails for some affordable apparel, including basic T-shirts, while Vivienne remained by her side. The actress wore a monochrome houndstooth coat while making her way around the three-level store, a popular destination for fashion conscious teenagers and shoppers constrained to tight budgets.Fortunately Angelina, whose net worth is estimated to be $120million, had no need to watch the purse strings as she paid for a range of items selected by her teenage daughter, her youngest biological child with ex Brad Pitt. Angelina is a mother to six children in total; adopted sons Maddox, 20, and Pax, 17, and adopted daughter Zahara, 16, as well as Shiloh, 15, and twins Knox and Vivienne from her former marriage to fellow actor Brad Pitt. Star-struck shoppers looked on as the celebrated actress draped a protective arm around Vivienne, who looked mildly startled by the attention their visit to the store inevitably generated.Angelina appeared to be taking a short break from her promotional commitments after arriving in London via Italy, where she attended the 16th Rome Film Festival premiere of her new film Eternals on Sunday evening.Eternals is a 2021 Marvel film based on the fictional race of humanoids of the same name which appears in the American comic books. The film sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.The movie, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month and then in Rome on Sunday evening, stars Angelina as elite warrior Thena and Gemma as the character Sersi.
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The fab five! Angelina Jolie is supported by children Maddox, 20, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 13, as the family attend UK gala screening of Eternals... but 'shy' Pax, 17, misses red carpet event
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Angelia Jolie cut a glamorous figure as she lead the stars attending the Eternals premiere at the BFI IMAX Waterloo in London on Wednesday.The actress, 46, was joined by her children, Shiloh, 15, Zahara, 16, Vivienne, 13, Maddox, 20, and Knox, 13, with her son Pax, 17, being her only child not in attendance.The film star, who plays Thena in the Marvel film, looked incredible in a black blazer which she paired with a flowing skirt and white shirt. The Oscar-winning actresses' garment featured a pleated detail while she completed her outfit with a wristwatch.Angelina looked nothing short of sensational as she let her brunette locks fall loose down her shoulders while posing for the camera.Angelina was in high demand at the screening as she stopped to pose for pictured with fans who lined the carpet. The actress was clearly in good spirits as she was seen laughing and joking with her children as they posed for photographers. Also in attendance was Angelina's co-star Gemma Chan who looked incredible in a black long-sleeved crop top with a silver bejewelled embellishmet.The actress, 38, who plays Sersi in the film, also donned a matching black skirt with aa sheer detail while she cinched her waist with a black belt.The Crazy Rich Asians star added to her look with a dark hood while she let her raven locks fall loose down her shoulders. Fellow co-star Salma Hayek, 55, ensured all eyes were on her as she arrived to the event in a red off the shoulder long-sleeved gown.The stunning garment featured a striped pattern and a shimmering detail while Salma styled her tresses into loose waves. Meanwhile, Kit Harington cut a dapper figure in a black pinstripe blazer and matching trousers along with a black shirt.The actor, who stars as Gemma's love interest Dane Whitman in the film, was all smiles as he reunited with his co-stars. Kumail Nanjiani, who plays Kingo, attended the premiere alongside his wife Emily V. Gordon, with the couple looking sensational on the red carpet. The comedian sported a teal blazer which he wore with a matching shirt and trousers and dark brown boots. Meanwhile, Richard Madden cut a dapper figure as he made his way to the gala screening.The actor, 35, who plays Ikaris in the Marvel film, looked suave for the star-studded event in a black blazer and matching trousers and a crisp white shirt.The film star was spotted leaving his hotel in the capital alongside co-star Kumail and Eternals director Chloe Zhao.Co-star Barry Keoghan made his first public appearance alongside new girlfriend Alyson Sandro at the screening. The pair, who are thought to have been dating since at least February, put on a loved-up display as they held hands on the purple carpet.The actor sported a dark brown suit and matching shoes while his partner wore a multi-coloured mini dress with a tassel detail. Alyson looked incredible in a multi-coloured mini dress with a tassel detail which she paired with red heels. Eternals is a 2021 Marvel film based on the fictional race of humanoids of the same name which appears in the American comic books.The film sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.The movie, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month, stars Angelina as elite warrior Thena and Gemma as the character Sersi. The cast includes MCU's first deaf superhero (Lauren Ridloff as Makkari) and its first openly gay superhero (Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos) who shares the franchise's first onscreen same-sex kiss with Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband.In ELLE's 2021 Women In Hollywood issue, Angelina - who is an advocate for refugees - discusses her upcoming movie and praises The Eternals' director, Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao for her choice of casting.'A lot of times as an actress, you're that individual strong woman, or you have one sister; you don't often have this family where you really get to know women and see all the different strengths,' Angelina explained. Praising her co-stars, she continued: 'Gemma's grace and elegance and the way she walks through the world. Salma's motherhood and power, and Lauren's connection and intelligence. Everybody came as themselves.'Maybe there's something to that, that the characters weren't as far off [from ourselves]. I think there's a secret that we don't know that our director knows, because if you look at her films, she casts a lot of real people as their roles and it shapes her films.' She reveals in the issue that when she was first contacted about the movie, she thought it was going to play a 'grandmother' type role.'I never thought I was going to be one of the Eternals. It doesn't happen. It's never happened to me like that before without a fight and like, 'I can do this, please hire me!' When she told me I was one of them, I was like, ''Me, Mexican, Middle Eastern? Me, in my fifties? I'm going to be a superhero in a Marvel movie?'' Sometimes as a woman, as a woman of colour and with the age, you feel so overlooked,' she said.
Commending Zao for 'having balls', she championed the director for 'acknowledging' her within the industry.Ridloff, whose character Makkari is deaf like her and the first deaf superhero within the Marvel universe, reveals she jumped at the chance to 'show representation' on screen in a 'refreshing' way, while Chan praises Marvel for showing diversity on a global scale with its movies.Ahead of its release, Eternals has already been branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in its first reviews.The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline. Critics were torn as the 'refreshingly diverse' cast of characters resulted in a group of 'navel-gazing superheroes' that signalled 'two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity.' The Times critic Kevin Maher gave the film two stars and took aim at the 157-minute flick's script and its 'strange self-sabotaging energy.'He wrote: 'It is the characters, however, who represent the biggest shift away from the swaggering, mostly white, mostly male, mostly straight, mostly neurotypical and mostly hearing ensembles (think Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc) that have defined the Marvel brand thus far.'Adding the 'reinvented heroes work' he continued: 'But they are also, to paraphrase Pirandello, ten characters in search of a script. Because the one they have now, co-written by Chloé Zhao, the director (Nomadland), is derivative, messy and miserably undernourished.'Eternals is two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity. Variety critic Owen Gleiberman branded the film a 'disappointment' over lacking the 'raw and real' signature quality Zhao has brought to her other films.He wrote: 'Yet as I approached Eternals, the question I was most curious about was whether Zhao, who in Nomadland and The Rider defined her filmmaking style in a unique poetic way, would carry any remnants of that mode over to the blockbuster universe... Eternals has none of that. It's clear that that's something of a disappointment.He added the film feels 'very standard' in comparison to 'top-tier' team superhero films (the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and 'Avengers: Infinity War) and that the film 'never transcends its conventionality'.He did however laud the diversity of the cast, writing: 'Four of the Eternals are white, three are Asian, two are Black, and one is Latina. One is gay, one is deaf, and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up. 'Any troll who surveys this lively medley of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too 'woke' might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago.'
The Guardian critic Steve Rose scored the film two stars once again and likened it to a 'sophisticated PowerPoint presentation' due to its comprehensive mythological storyline. He wrote: 'There is also an epic mythology to get our heads around: even before a line of dialogue is spoken, three dense paragraphs of text explain how our 10 Eternals came to earth to protect it from the predatory Deviants (sort of skinless, sinewy beasts with prehensile tentacles) at the behest of Arishem, 'the Prime Celestial'. 'If you're lost already, bad luck: there's plenty more to come, which demands some planet-sized chunks of exposition. At times if feels like you are watching a very sophisticated PowerPoint presentation.' Adding the film was a 'gigantic exercise in un-realism', he praised Kumail Nanjiani's turn as Eternal-turned-Bollywood movie star Kingo, but said Angelina Jolie's Thena was 'unconvincing' portraying a personality disorder.He wrote: That's the problem: there's just too much going on: it's all headed towards yet another 'race against time to stop the really bad thing happening' climax. It's not exactly boring – there's always something new to behold – but nor it is particularly exciting, and it lacks the breezy wit of Marvel's best movies.' The Telegraph critic Robbie Collin again gave Eternals two stars, writing: 'The answer is the problem with Eternals in miniature: it's constantly engaged in a kind of grit-toothed authenticity theatre, going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper cinema does, even though none of them bring any discernible benefit whatsoever to the film at hand. 'The more muted tone rules out Marvel's fast and flippant house style: instead, Eternals opts for solemnity peppered with wackiness, which occasionally gives it the feel of a Japanese anime series.'He added that Jolie's character was 'like a parody', and wrote: 'Perhaps the hope was that Marvel's 26th film might rattle the franchise out of its comfort zone. But the franchise is nothing but comfort zone, which renders its latest entry an instant white elephant.' Empire critic John Nugent gave Eternals three stars, as it was 'unable to escape the clichés of superhero storytelling' but praised Zhao's 'assured and ambitious' MCU debut.He wrote: 'There's a fascinating tension in Eternals between the unstoppable force of the Marvel project and the immovable object of Zhao's artistic sensibilities. In many ways, this looks and feels nothing like any Chloé Zhao film we've seen before.'And yet in many ways, this film looks and feels nothing like any previous Marvel film. There are, for example, at least a couple of firsts: a genuine sex scene, and an onscreen gay kiss — unheard of in the normally rather chaste MCU. 'More frequently, though, it seems to fall into familiar traps about saving the world and learning to work together as a team; when a giant, CGI-heavy battle begins to thwart another potential apocalypse, you start to feel a formula being leaned on.'BBC Culture critic Nicholas Barber also gave 'ultimately unmemorable' Eternals three stars, and said 'it could be the most disappointing MCU film yet.' He wrote: 'Suffice it to say that the Eternals score highly in terms of gender, ethnic and sexual diversity, but lowly in terms of being memorable. They're a sketchily drawn and fundamentally drab bunch, so it can be tricky to remember which one is friendly with which. 'By rights, their super-soap opera should have had its own 20-part series on Disney+. In a film, the plot is so over-populated that one Eternal even announces, shortly before the climactic battle, that he doesn't want to be involved, and walks out, leaving us to wonder why exactly we've spent the last hour hanging out with him. Eternals is adapted from a series of far-out 1970s comics by the great Jack Kirby, and traces remain of his visionary design, but Zhao and her three co-writers have weighed it down with lots of rudimentary dialogue.' Evening Standard critic Charlotte O'Sullivan praised the film and gave it an impressive four stars, heaping praise on the cast, bar Gemma Chan's 'wooden' turn as Sersi.She wrote: 'We're used to top-notch bickering from Marvel but the self-aware, sibling-like rivalry here seems extra divine because it allows ideas explored in Nomadland to be revisited. Maybe we don't need a 'true home' in our lives. Or a 'boss'.'The whole cast are fabulous, with one exception. Chan's a bit wooden. As far as the script's concerned, she's the chosen one. But I wish Zhao hadn't chosen her. 'Anyway, the fights, especially in the film's last third, are astounding, beautifully paced and crammed with detail.'
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Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh, 15, continues her radical image change as she wears an elegant lace detailed dress to Eternals UK gala screening
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Angelina Jolie's daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt continued to move away from her 'dude' style as she arrived at the Eternals premiere at the BFI IMAX Waterloo in London with her famous mother and siblings on Wednesday evening.The superstar offspring, 15, whose father is Brad Pitt, wore an elegant cream dress with black lace detail as she posed on the red carpet.She could be seen smiling as she supported her mother Angelina, 46 - who appears in the film as as elite warrior Thena - with her siblings Zahara, 16, Vivienne, 13, Maddox, 20, and Knox, 13. The teen appears to have gone through a style transformation of late, opting for dresses on her mother's promo trail for Eternals. On Sunday, Shiloh looked super trendy at the Eternals Rome premiere, where she wore a black dress with a full skirt alongside neon trainers with an animal print while her hair was stacked into an elegant chignon and she wore hoop earrings. Last week's style and image over haul comes a year after Shiloh's father Brad was said to be 'so proud of Shiloh and who she had become' as he celebrated the teenager's 14th birthday.A source told Entertainment Tonight: 'Brad is so proud of Shiloh and who she has become, He loves that she always stays true to herself and is so good to her brothers and sisters.' Meanwhile, Angelina spoke out about Shiloh's androgynous dress sense, saying her daughter considered herself to be 'one of the brothers'.'She wants to be a boy,' she told Vanity Fair in 2011. 'So we had to cut her hair. She likes to wear boys' everything. She thinks she's one of the brothers.'Apparently coining a new fashion term, she said: 'Shiloh, we feel, has Montenegro style. She dresses like a little dude. It's how people dress there. She likes tracksuits, she likes [regular] suits.' Back in 2008 it was revealed that Shiloh had requested she be addressed as John since the age of two.Brad told Oprah Winfrey: 'She only wants to be called John. John or Peter. So it’s a Peter Pan thing. So we’ve got to call her John. "Shi, do you want…" "John. I’m John." And then I’ll say, "John, would you like some orange juice?" And she goes, "No!"'So, you know, it’s just that kind of stuff that’s cute to parents and it’s probably really obnoxious to other people.' Addressing the name change at the time, Angelina said that there was no need to 'interpret' anything from the request.In an interview with The Daily Mail, Angelina said: 'I don’t think it’s for the world to interpret anything. She likes to dress like a boy and wants her hair cut like a boy and she wanted to be called John for a while.'Some kids wear capes and want to be Superman and she wants to be like her brothers. It’s who she is. It’s been a surprise to us and it’s really interesting, but she’s so much more than that – she’s funny and sweet and pretty. But she does love a tie…’
Eternals is a 2021 Marvel movie based on the fictional race of humanoids of the same name which appears in the American comic books.The flick sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.The cast also includes MCU's first deaf superhero (Lauren Ridloff as Makkari) and its first openly gay superhero (Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos) who shares the franchise's first onscreen same-sex kiss with Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband.In ELLE's 2021 Women In Hollywood issue, Angelina - who is an advocate for refugees - discusses her upcoming movie and praises The Eternals' director, Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao for her choice of casting.A lot of times as an actress, you're that individual strong woman, or you have one sister; you don't often have this family where you really get to know women and see all the different strengths,' she explained. Praising her co-stars, she continued: 'Gemma's grace and elegance and the way she walks through the world. Salma's motherhood and power, and Lauren's connection and intelligence. Everybody came as themselves.'Maybe there's something to that, that the characters weren't as far off [from ourselves]. I think there's a secret that we don't know that our director knows, because if you look at her films, she casts a lot of real people as their roles and it shapes her films.'
She reveals in the issue that when she was first contacted about the movie, she thought it was going to play a 'grandmother' type role.'I never thought I was going to be one of the Eternals. It doesn't happen. It's never happened to me like that before without a fight and like, 'I can do this, please hire me!' When she told me I was one of them, I was like, ''Me, Mexican, Middle Eastern? Me, in my fifties? I'm going to be a superhero in a Marvel movie?'' Sometimes as a woman, as a woman of colour and with the age, you feel so overlooked,' she said.Commending Zao for 'having balls', she championed the director for 'acknowledging' her within the industry.Ridloff, whose character Makkari is deaf like her and the first deaf superhero within the Marvel universe, reveals she jumped at the chance to 'show representation' on screen in a 'refreshing' way, while Chan praises Marvel for showing diversity on a global scale with its movies.Ahead of its release, Eternals has already been branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in its first reviews.The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline. Critics were torn as the 'refreshingly diverse' cast of characters resulted in a group of 'navel-gazing superheroes' that signalled 'two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity.'
The Times critic Kevin Maher gave the film two stars and took aim at the 157-minute flick's script and its 'strange self-sabotaging energy.' He wrote: 'It is the characters, however, who represent the biggest shift away from the swaggering, mostly white, mostly male, mostly straight, mostly neurotypical and mostly hearing ensembles (think Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc) that have defined the Marvel brand thus far.'Adding the 'reinvented heroes work' he continued: 'But they are also, to paraphrase Pirandello, ten characters in search of a script. Because the one they have now, co-written by Chloé Zhao, the director (Nomadland), is derivative, messy and miserably undernourished.'Eternals is two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity. Variety critic Owen Gleiberman branded the film a 'disappointment' over lacking the 'raw and real' signature quality Zhao has brought to her other films. He wrote: 'Yet as I approached Eternals, the question I was most curious about was whether Zhao, who in Nomadland and The Rider defined her filmmaking style in a unique poetic way, would carry any remnants of that mode over to the blockbuster universe... Eternals has none of that. It's clear that that's something of a disappointment.He added the film feels 'very standard' in comparison to 'top-tier' team superhero films (the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and 'Avengers: Infinity War) and that the film 'never transcends its conventionality'.He did however laud the diversity of the cast, writing: 'Four of the Eternals are white, three are Asian, two are Black, and one is Latina. One is gay, one is deaf, and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up. 'Any troll who surveys this lively medley of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too 'woke' might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago.' The Telegraph critic Robbie Collin again gave Eternals two stars, writing: 'The answer is the problem with Eternals in miniature: it's constantly engaged in a kind of grit-toothed authenticity theatre, going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper cinema does, even though none of them bring any discernible benefit whatsoever to the film at hand. 'The more muted tone rules out Marvel's fast and flippant house style: instead, Eternals opts for solemnity peppered with wackiness, which occasionally gives it the feel of a Japanese anime series.'Empire critic John Nugent gave Eternals three stars, as it was 'unable to escape the clichés of superhero storytelling' but praised Zhao's 'assured and ambitious' MCU debut.He wrote: 'There's a fascinating tension in Eternals between the unstoppable force of the Marvel project and the immovable object of Zhao's artistic sensibilities. In many ways, this looks and feels nothing like any Chloé Zhao film we've seen before.'And yet in many ways, this film looks and feels nothing like any previous Marvel film. There are, for example, at least a couple of firsts: a genuine sex scene, and an onscreen gay kiss — unheard of in the normally rather chaste MCU. 'More frequently, though, it seems to fall into familiar traps about saving the world and learning to work together as a team; when a giant, CGI-heavy battle begins to thwart another potential apocalypse, you start to feel a formula being leaned on.'
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Angelina Jolie looks elegant in flowing green smock dress as she attends the Eternals UK gala screening afterparty with her children
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Angelina Jolie was a vision in green as she lead the stars attending the afterparty of the Eternals premiere at the BFI IMAX Waterloo in London on Wednesday.The actress, 46, looked glamorous on a floaty smock dress after the screening where she was supported by her children Shiloh, 15, Zahara, 16, Vivienne, 13, Maddox, 20, and Knox, 13, with her son Pax, 17, being her only child not in attendance.The Hollywood siren teetered on a pair of nude heels as she made her way to the celebration with her offspring in tow. Angelina could be seen walking alongside daughter Shilo who wore a black shirt dress beneath a blue denim shirt decorated with motifs.She had on a pair of comfortable monochrome trainers as she walked alongside her famous parent.The pair were joined by Zahara who opted for an off-the-shoulder yellow dress for the evening.She could be seen wearing a pair of open-toed heels as she walked hand-in-hand with her mother.Maddox could be seen in casual attire, wearing a black T-shirt and matching denim trousers which he teamed with a slate grey blazer and beanie hat.The family were joined by a number of famous friends including Salma Hayek, 55, who cut a glamorous figure in a sequined ruby red dress.She wrapped up warm against the cool evening air with a black shawl covering her arms and shoulders as she headed to the venue.The actress, who plays the character of Ajak in the film, was joined by her husband François-Henri Pinault who looked dapper in a shirt and tie as he arrived separately to the bash.Meanwhile, Kit Harrington, 34, opted for a black suit which he was pictured in on the red carpet at the premiere.He wore a matching shirt which he wore open at the collar to give his outfit a more casual look.The star had his hair slicked into a sleek style and sported some carefully trimmed facial hair. Also in attendance was Samuel L. Jackson, 72, who cut a casual figure in a black Adidas tracksuit.He could be seen wearing a matching hat while he wore a grey facemask in a bid to keep himself and others safe from coronavirus. Eternals sees an immortal alien race come out of hiding after thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.The cast includes MCU's first deaf superhero (Lauren Ridloff as Makkari) and its first openly gay superhero (Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos) who shares the franchise's first onscreen same-sex kiss with Haaz Sleiman, who plays his husband.In ELLE's 2021 Women In Hollywood issue, Angelina - who is an advocate for refugees - discusses her upcoming movie and praises The Eternals' director, Oscar-winner Chloé Zhao for her choice of casting.'A lot of times as an actress, you're that individual strong woman, or you have one sister; you don't often have this family where you really get to know women and see all the different strengths,' she explained. Praising her co-stars, she continued: 'Gemma's grace and elegance and the way she walks through the world. Salma's motherhood and power, and Lauren's connection and intelligence. Everybody came as themselves.'Maybe there's something to that, that the characters weren't as far off [from ourselves]. I think there's a secret that we don't know that our director knows, because if you look at her films, she casts a lot of real people as their roles and it shapes her films.'She reveals in the issue that when she was first contacted about the movie, she thought it was going to play a 'grandmother' type role.'I never thought I was going to be one of the Eternals. It doesn't happen. It's never happened to me like that before without a fight and like, 'I can do this, please hire me!' When she told me I was one of them, I was like, ''Me, Mexican, Middle Eastern? Me, in my fifties? I'm going to be a superhero in a Marvel movie?'' Sometimes as a woman, as a woman of colour and with the age, you feel so overlooked,' she said.Commending Zao for 'having balls', she championed the director for 'acknowledging' her within the industry.Ridloff, whose character Makkari is deaf like her and the first deaf superhero within the Marvel universe, reveals she jumped at the chance to 'show representation' on screen in a 'refreshing' way, while Chan praises Marvel for showing diversity on a global scale with its movies.Ahead of its release, Eternals has already been branded 'disappointing' and 'ultimately unmemorable' by critics in its first reviews.The superhero flick was lambasted by critics over its 'miserably undernourished' script, deluge of underdeveloped characters and 'overloaded' storyline. Critics were torn as the 'refreshingly diverse' cast of characters resulted in a group of 'navel-gazing superheroes' that signalled 'two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity.' The Times critic Kevin Maher gave the film two stars and took aim at the 157-minute flick's script and its 'strange self-sabotaging energy.'He wrote: 'It is the characters, however, who represent the biggest shift away from the swaggering, mostly white, mostly male, mostly straight, mostly neurotypical and mostly hearing ensembles (think Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, etc) that have defined the Marvel brand thus far.'Adding the 'reinvented heroes work' he continued: 'But they are also, to paraphrase Pirandello, ten characters in search of a script. Because the one they have now, co-written by Chloé Zhao, the director (Nomadland), is derivative, messy and miserably undernourished.'Eternals is two steps forwards for representation but three steps backwards for dramatic ingenuity. Variety critic Owen Gleiberman branded the film a 'disappointment' over lacking the 'raw and real' signature quality Zhao has brought to her other films. He wrote: 'Yet as I approached Eternals, the question I was most curious about was whether Zhao, who in Nomadland and The Rider defined her filmmaking style in a unique poetic way, would carry any remnants of that mode over to the blockbuster universe... Eternals has none of that. It's clear that that's something of a disappointment.He added the film feels 'very standard' in comparison to 'top-tier' team superhero films (the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Zack Snyder's Justice League, and 'Avengers: Infinity War) and that the film 'never transcends its conventionality' He did however laud the diversity of the cast, writing: 'Four of the Eternals are white, three are Asian, two are Black, and one is Latina. One is gay, one is deaf, and one is an androgynous tween who never grows up. 'Any troll who surveys this lively medley of backgrounds and temperaments only to gripe that the movie is too 'woke' might have lodged the same complaint about Star Trek 55 years ago.' The Telegraph critic Robbie Collin again gave Eternals two stars, writing: 'The answer is the problem with Eternals in miniature: it's constantly engaged in a kind of grit-toothed authenticity theatre, going out of its way to show you it's doing all the things proper cinema does, even though none of them bring any discernible benefit whatsoever to the film at hand. 'The more muted tone rules out Marvel's fast and flippant house style: instead, Eternals opts for solemnity peppered with wackiness, which occasionally gives it the feel of a Japanese anime series.' Empire critic John Nugent gave Eternals three stars, as it was 'unable to escape the clichés of superhero storytelling' but praised Zhao's 'assured and ambitious' MCU debut.He wrote: 'There's a fascinating tension in Eternals between the unstoppable force of the Marvel project and the immovable object of Zhao's artistic sensibilities. In many ways, this looks and feels nothing like any Chloé Zhao film we've seen before.'And yet in many ways, this film looks and feels nothing like any previous Marvel film. There are, for example, at least a couple of firsts: a genuine sex scene, and an onscreen gay kiss — unheard of in the normally rather chaste MCU. 'More frequently, though, it seems to fall into familiar traps about saving the world and learning to work together as a team; when a giant, CGI-heavy battle begins to thwart another potential apocalypse, you start to feel a formula being leaned on.'
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Angelina Jolie says she is 'not a perfect parent' to her six kids adding she can be 'tough' on herself: 'Every day I feel like I'm more aware of everything I DON'T do right'
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- Published on Friday, 29 October 2021 06:00
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Angelina Jolie has been a single parent since splitting from husband Brad Pitt in 2016 but it has not been the easiest road for the Hollywood veteran.On Wednesday The Eternals actress told People magazine that she is 'not a perfect parent' to her six kids adding she is very 'tough' on herself when it comes to being a matriarch.'Every day I feel like I'm more aware of everything I DON'T do right' the beauty shared. But she noted that the kids are patient and their 'kindness' has been very healing to her as she continues to fight Pitt in court over custody of five out of the six kids as Maddox is an adult. The kids are Maddox, 20, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 15, and 13-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. Jolie said at times she says she can be 'tough' on herself when it comes to being a single parent.'I'm not a perfect parent by any means,' she shared.'Every day I feel like I'm more aware of everything I don't do right. And I'm pretty tough on myself, because I feel often, "Am I doing the right thing? Did I say the right thing?"' The daughter of Jon Voight then added: 'My children have done many, many loving things. My children's kindness has been very healing to me.'She also noted that she has felt the need to be very 'honest' with the six children they raised together. 'I'm very honest with my kids. And I'm very human with my kids,' the Gia actress told People in the 2021 Kindness Issue as she graced the cover wearing a caramel beige sweater.Jolie also said she finds tremendous joy is seeing them grow up. 'I have six very individual human beings in my home. I am so excited about all the different stages and feelings and curiosities that they go through. Why wouldn't you be?' added the beauty who has recently been romantically linked to singer The Weeknd.'We're supposed to help them figure out who they are. And you can't figure out who they are if you don't enthusiastically develop with them.' And she thinks highly of her kids whom live with her in Los Feliz, California but also spend time with their father Pitt on his nearby compound. 'They're pretty great people,' Jolie, 46, shared with the site adding 'and because there's so many of them, I think they've had a very significant effect on each other. 'It's not like I'm the head of anything. I'm very honest with my kids. And I'm very human with my kids.' She added that she is 'curious about all the different aspects of who they are.'And Jolie wants to support and develop all the different aspects of who they are.' In February Jolie said she is still working on being 'happy.'The Maleficent actress has admitted she 'doesn’t know' if she’s happy, as she said she’s been so focused on 'healing [her] family' following her split from Pitt that she hasn’t had time to work on her own happiness.When asked if she’s happy, Angelina said: 'I don’t know. The past few years have been pretty hard. I’ve been focusing on healing our family. It’s slowly coming back, like the ice melting and the blood returning to my body. But I’m not there. I’m not there yet. But I hope to be. I’m planning on it.' Since splitting from Brad, Angelina has moved into the former estate of Cecil B DeMille, where she chose to live because the property is just 'five minutes away' from Brad meaning their kids could be close to both parents.She said of her move: 'I wanted it to be close to their dad, who is only five minutes away. I felt a little pressure moving in. Like I had snuck into where DeMille and Chaplin would hang out. I love most that there is no entertainment room, but lots of pathways and places to walk and think. I feel very fortunate we have that at this time.'And although she may not have found true happiness just yet, the actress has said she much prefers life now that she’s older.She told British Vogue magazine: 'I do like being older. I feel much more comfortable in my forties than I did when I was younger. Maybe because … I don’t know … maybe because my mom didn’t live very long, so there’s something about age that feels like a victory instead of a sadness for me.' Things are still not going as well as they could with the Pitt custody battle.In September Pitt insisted the judge shouldn't have been removed from his long-running custody case with Jolie.The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood actor's legal team have filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to raise an objection to the recent disqualification of private Judge John Ouderkirk from their case, which effectively voided a previous ruling that granted the 57-year-old star more time with the former couple's five younger children.The petition argues that removing the judge 'effectively upended the constitutionally authorized temporary judging system in California' and now 'throws open the door to disqualification challenges at any point during a case, even if the party raising the motion has long been on notice about the alleged grounds for disqualification.'The document added: 'In so doing, the opinion is guaranteed to fuel disqualification gamesmanship and raises serious questions as to whether the temporary judging system is a viable option in California's severely backlogged judicial system.'Angelina's team had sought to have the judge - who was hired in 2016 - removed because they felt he could be biased in his rulings as he had failed to disclose continuing or new cases he'd been hired by Brad's lawyers to oversee and the three judges who oversaw a hearing on the matter last month agreed Ouderkirk's 'failure to make mandatory disclosures' about the work he was doing on other cases involving the Moneyball star's team 'might cause an objective person, aware of all of the facts' to doubt his impartiality.However, in Brad's new petition, they insisted the star had been 'made aware of Judge Ouderkirk's significant professional history with Pitt's counsel from the very start' of their custody battle but had waited for years to have him removed.The lawyers argued: 'After more than four years of contentious litigation, every day of which has harmed the children and their father, an important and considered custody decision will be entirely undone as a result of an administrative error that is wholly unrelated to the merits of the custody dispute itself.'California law requires that a party seeking disqualification of a judge file a written statement objecting to continued proceedings before the judge 'at the earliest practicable opportunity after discovery of the facts constituting the ground for disqualification'. 'Failure to do so constitutes waiver or forfeiture of the party's right to seek disqualification.'Brad's team confirmed to People they are seeking a review in the California Supreme Court.They said in a statement they wanted the review because: 'The temporary judge, who had been appointed and repeatedly renewed by both sides, was improperly disqualified after providing a detailed, fact-based custodial decision, following a lengthy legal process with multiple witnesses and experts.'Angelina's team branded the move to have the judge reinstated 'disturbing.'Her lawyer, Robert A. Olsen, said: 'The Court of Appeal unanimously refused to tolerate the ethical violations of the private judge who had heard custody matters, and correctly vacated that judge's orders.'Mr. Pitt's counsel's petition to the California Supreme Court displays how they are clinging to this private judge who exhibited bias and refused statutorily required evidence.'It is disturbing that in full knowledge of unethical behaviour, and having previously failed to disclose their new and ongoing financial relationships with him, Mr. Pitt's counsel would seek to reinstate the private judge. Ms. Jolie hopes Mr. Pitt will instead join with her in focusing on the children's needs, voices, and healing.'
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