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.

 source : Daily mail