Angelina Jolie hints Brad Pitt divorce left her 'broken' but new movie Those Who Wish Me Dead 'healed her' as it reminded the star to 'stand back up'
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- Published on Thursday, 29 April 2021 15:39
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Angelina Jolie shed some light on how she has been feeling since her divorce from Brad Pitt, whom she is still in a custody battle with.This week the actress, 45, talked to Entertainment Tonight about how shooting the adventure film Those Who Wish Me Dead was 'very healing' for her.The Oscar winner was 'drawn' to the film's character - firefighter Hannah Faber who suffers from PTSD - and playing her taught Jolie how to 'stand back up,' she shared.The 45-year-old star has Maddox, 18, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.She is fighting with Pitt over custody of the five younger kids as Maddox is an adult and can choose which parent to spent time with.But it wasn't the physical side of playing PTSD-stricken fire fighter Hannah Faber in Those Who Wish Me Dead that drew her to the project.It was the chance to depict someone getting back up after being left 'broken.'She told ET: 'I am drawn to people who have been through something and are broken and then find their way forward and overcome it.'As an artist, it's very healing to play people like that. She's been very healing for me, because you just get so broken and then you stand back up,' the performer added.'[Hannah is] a very broken person who carries a great deal of guilt.' In the film, smoke jumper Hannah takes it upon herself to try and protect a 12-year-old boy (Finn Little) who witnessed a murder and Angelina insisted the story is more than just a 'thriller'.She said: 'On its surface, it feels like a great thriller, a great adventure across an unusual terrain inside a great fire. Underneath it, it's a really emotional film. It's about people who have a great impact on each other and change each other. Emotionally and practically, they go through the fire.'The By the Sea filmmaker recently admitted she had returned to acting and taken on the role because her split from Brad meant it wasn't fair on her family for her to take on long directing projects for the time being.She said: 'I love directing, but I had a change in my family situation that's not made it possible for me to direct for a few years.'I needed to just do shorter jobs and be home more, so I kind of went back to doing a few acting jobs. That's really the truth of it.'
Earlier this month she said she relished getting 'pretty beaten up' while making Those Who Wish Me Dead. 'There's nothing about this character that trained in martial arts or did anything special. I get pretty beaten up through this,' the Tomb Raider star explained. In the film she has to wear a 70lb firefighter suit at times.And playing an expert smoke jumper - the name given to specially-trained firefighters who parachute into the blazing wilderness - gave the brunette beauty more respect for firefighters the longer filming went on.She told Entertainment Weekly magazine: 'The first day we were in the fire, [I noticed] the heat and how quickly the winds would change and how quickly the fire would suddenly take to a tree that you weren't expecting.'Our respect just grew day after day for these people on the front lines and how difficult this work is.' While Angelina has been acting since she was just seven years old, she believes her decision to turn to directing in recent years has improved her performance by giving her a new perspective.She explained: 'In very technical terms, I'm more aware of what the director needs, and what other challenges they're facing, and how many different pieces are moving.' And as a result, she had a lot more patience and appreciation for the difficult stunts and set pieces in the movie.She added: 'Maybe when you're younger and you're having a huge day where you have to be cold and wet and emotional and crying, you're thinking about those things.'Now you've directed and you're older, and you realize that while you are going to be freezing and crying, there's also pyrotechnics going on, or multiple other situations. It pulls you out of yourself.' And Angelina couldn't suppress her maternal instinct on her latest job as director Taylor Sheridan had to call her out for being too nice on camera to Finn Little's character, Connor Casserly, who her alter ego was tasked with protecting.Angelina said: 'My character is not maternal by nature. Sometimes Taylor would correct me because my behaviour towards a child was different from [Hannah's] behaviour towards a child. It took me a little bit to treat [Little] badly, but I got there!' The filmmaker previously admitted she thinks she's 'lacking' in the skills to be a traditional stay-at-home parent.She said in February: 'I was never very good at sitting still. I feel like I'm lacking in all the skills to be a traditional stay-at-home mom. Even though I wanted to have many children and be a mom, I always imagined it kind of like Jane Goodall, traveling in the middle of the jungle somewhere. I didn't imagine it in that true, traditional sense.'
The film hits theaters and HBO on May 14.
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Jon Voight says he would 'love' to be cast in an Angelina Jolie film: 'She would be tough'
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- Published on Monday, 26 April 2021 04:09
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Don't expect Jon Voight to retire anytime soon — he's waiting for the perfect role in an Angelina Jolie film. The 82-year-old Academy Award-winner opened up to Ben Mankiewicz on CBS Sunday Morning, reflecting on his film career, his political views and a dream partnership with daughter Jolie, 45. "You have to be proud that your daughter followed in your footsteps and is so good at this, not just as an actor but as a writer, director, too," said Mankiewicz. In addition to scoring a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for the 1999 film Girl, Interrupted, Jolie has directed six films including First They Killed My Father (2017) and In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). "Yeah, she's really remarkable," answered Voight. "She's got her own thing, man. She's got her own way of dealing with things, you know? She's very clear." As to whether Voight has interest in acting under Jolie's direction, he laughed. "She would be tough! But yes, of course, I would love to work with her." A hypothetical partnership would follow their acting collaboration in the 2001 film Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. However, the relationship between Voight and Jolie has wavered — last year in a written New York Times article, the actress remembered her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007, while noting her troubled marriage. "When my father had an affair, it changed her life," wrote Jolie. "It set her dream of family life ablaze. But she still loved being a mother. Her dreams of being an actor faded as she found herself, at the age of 26, raising two children with a famous ex who would cast a long shadow on her life. After she died, I found a video of her acting in a short film. She was good. It was all possible for her." Jolie and Voight were also estranged for a long time— the actress was a toddler when her parents split and communication with her father was inconsistent during adulthood. In 2002, Jolie legally changed her name to omit "Voight" amid claims that Jolie did not allow Voight to see his grandson Maddox. According to Entertainment Weekly, Jolie responded by stating: ”I don’t want to make public the reasons for my bad relationship with my father…. After all these years, I have determined that it is not healthy for me to be around my father, especially now that I am responsible for my own child.”.However, in 2010, Jolie's then-husband Brad Pitt encouraged a reconciliation that sparked a new relationship. “He’s been very good at understanding they needed their grandfather at this time,” Jolie told Vanity Fair of her father in 2017. “I had to do a therapy meeting last night and he was just around. He knows kind of the rule—don’t make them play with you. Just be a cool grandpa who’s creative, and hang out and tell stories and read a book in the library.” In the CBS interview, Voight, a fierce supporter of former President Donald Trump also defended his personal politics, which he shares on social media and through professional projects. Voight's latest film Roe V. Wade, about the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision to legalize abortion, has been criticized as propaganda with "poor production." "I'm a conservative, as you know, and I'm not so happy with government involvement in anything," said Voight. "I'm very concerned about our country. I'm very concerned about this attack on free speech. I don't like it that we can't sit down and talk about everything. We're all unique. There's no one that's different or better or whatever it is. We all are unique."
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Report Alleges Angelina Jolie Is A ‘Neighbor From Hell’
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- Published on Monday, 26 April 2021 04:06
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This week, a magazine makes the claim that Angelina Jolie and kids are making life hell for their neighbors with noise and chaos. This isn’t the first time the claim has been made either. Gossip Cop investigates.Life & Style dedicates it’s cover this week to “neighbors from hell” and in included some of the biggest celebrity names in its report. One that jumped out to us was Angelina Jolie. Jolie, of course, is as famous for being a mom to six kids as she is for being of Hollywood’s most in-demand actresses. According to the magazine’s source, those kids are making life impossible for her neighbors. “Her house is like a carnival,” the source complains, “The kids are so loud.” It Could Get Worse.“The summers are the worst,” says the source, “because they’re all outside screaming and shouting, playing music and hanging with friends.” The source then goes to explain it’s not just the kids partying and blasting tunes. “There are strange smells that sometimes waft over,” explains the nosy tattler, “Maybe it’s because they have so many pets!” We’ve Heard This All Before.Tabloids aren’t exactly known for their originality or their creativeness (except when making up stories). In fact, the supermarket market media is pretty well known for recycling old claims, when they’ve run out of new ideas to invent and this is just such a story. In fact, last July, Gossip Cop debunked a story in the Globe that accused Jolie of being the “neighbor from Hell-ywierd.” Sound familiar? Well, it turns out Life & Style and the Globe are owned by the same parent company and this is clearly one tabloid, bereft of ideas turning to a sister publication for creative inspiration.As we pointed out when we busted that false claim, Jolie’s house sits on a huge property, surrounded by privacy hedges, walls, and fences. Unless those kids are holding concerts and monster truck rallies, it’s unlikely the neighbors would ever hear a peep. Not to mention that (and this) claim come in the middle of a pandemic when almost all families, Jolie’s included, have lived under a quarantine, so the idea that they would be throwing parties with friends is completely far-fetched.Not Surprising.Of course, Angelina Jolie finds herself in the tabloids all the time. Whether it’s related to her divorce from Brad Pitt or something like this, playing on her reputation as a Hollywood hellraiser – a reputation that Jolie herself has long moved past – the gossip media loves to invent wild stories about the actress that have no basis in reality. The fact is, as Jolie herself discussed in a recent interview, life has been pretty challenging, but isolating in this year+ of Covid, making time timing of these claims even more dubious. The truth is, you can’t trust what the supermarket tabloids claim, ever.
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Angelina Jolie takes her kids Zahara and Pax for a sushi dinner in West Hollywood... amid her ongoing custody battle with Brad Pitt
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- Published on Sunday, 25 April 2021 08:56
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Angelina Jolie was seen spending time with her children Zahara and Pax in West Hollywood on Thursday evening.The 45-year-old actress and two of her eldest adopted kids were seen taking a short stroll together after finishing up a shared sushi dinner at one of their usual hangouts.Jolie wore a flowing black dress that fell to the middle of her shins while spending time with two of her children.She paired her outfit choice with a matching set of sandals and carried a large coat with her in case the cool springtime weather grew any colder.Her gorgeous brunette hair fell onto her shoulders.Jolie, Zahara and Pax all wore facial coverings to keep themselves protected from COVID-19 while spending time in public.The actress shares a total of six children with her estranged husband Brad Pitt, from whom she began a highly-publicized relationship with after they costarred in the 2005 action comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith.She first adopted her son Maddox, aged 19, with her former husband, Billy Bob Thornton, in 2002, although she later raised him as a single mother for a period of time.The performer went on to welcome several other children into her home, including Zahara and Pax. Jolie and Pitt's final additions to their family, daughter Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox, were their only biological offspring. The actor's outing comes amid her ongoing custody battle with her estranged husband. The couple tied the knot in 2014 after several years of dating, before separating in 2016.The couple's split kicked off a still-ongoing custody battle concerning the welfare of their adopted and biological children.Earlier this year, Jolie filed legal paperwork alleging that the Once Upon A Time In Hollywood subjected her and the couple's kids to acts of domestic abuse during the span of their relationship.The actress agreed to provide testimony to back up her claims, and noted that several of her children would do the same.In March, the couple's eldest child, Maddox, appeared in court to give his opinion on the matter and did not paint his estranged father in a positive light.Shortly after the 19-year-old told the authorities about his perception of the actor's behavior, a source spoke to Us Weekly and noted that what was stated in court did not bode well for the performer's future. 'Maddox has already given testimony as [an] adult in the ongoing custody dispute and it wasn’t very flattering toward Brad,' they said.'He doesn’t use Pitt as his last name on documents that aren’t legal and instead uses Jolie. Maddox wants to legally change his last name to Jolie, which Angelina has said she doesn’t support,' the source added.
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source : Daily mail
Angelina Jolie Dropping Hard Truths on Her Those Who Wish Me Dead Press Tour
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- Published on Friday, 23 April 2021 04:52
- Written by Vanity Fair
If parents everywhere had a mantra, it could be, “You gotta do what you gotta do.” In other words, whatever is the kids’ best interest goes, and in this way, the stars are just like us. Take Angelina Jolie. For a time, she had to give up directing, which she loves, in favor of acting, specifically for the upcoming film Those Who Wish Me Dead, an action thriller in which she plays a firefighter. She made the change from director back to acting because she “needed to be home,” as she told Entertainment Weekly while on a press tour for the film. As recently as 2017, Jolie was on a directing kick, with films like Unbroken and First They Killed My Father, but says that she hasn’t been able to take on another such project due to her “family situation,” likely referring to her drawn-out divorce from Brad Pitt. “I love directing, but I had a change in my family situation that’s not made it possible for me to direct for a few years,” she told Entertainment Weekly in an interview published Tuesday. “I needed to just do shorter jobs and be home more, so I kind of went back to doing a few acting jobs. That’s really the truth of it.” Jolie and Pitt’s divorce has now extended nearly five years; she first filed in September 2016. Though they have a private judge, select moments from the case have leaked, usually details in the tussles over custody of their six children. Most recently, Jolie volunteered to testify about domestic violence claims. A source familiar with the case told V.F. at the time that the accusations of domestic violence “were reported to the authorities and thoroughly investigated before concluding no wrongdoing, and therefore, no action was taken. These have been the same attacks repeated for the past four and a half years.” After it leaked that Jolie might testify, a source close to Pitt told Page Six that he felt the leak was intentional to sway trial outcomes and that he was feeling “more and more isolated from his children, and he’s devastated about it.” Neither Jolie nor Pitt’s camp has confirmed whether the judge ever called her to testify.
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