The Hollywood diva opens up
Whether she’s tackling films, family, or philanthropy, Jolie has never been one for small measures.
Angelina spoke about Brad saying that when you have history with somebody, you’re friends in such a real, deep way, that there’s comfort, and ease, and deep love that comes from having been through quite a lot together. PHOTO: FILE
Actor Angelina Jolie spoke candidly with ELLE magazine about life with her fast-growing children and why she and Brad are still passionate and “more interested in each other” than ever.
She started off with reflecting on the perception of her early years in the spotlight. The hullabaloo of her twenties was misinterpreted as her wanting to be rebellious revealed Jolie. “It wasn’t a need to be destructive or rebellious, it’s that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you. You want to be free. And as you start to feel that you are being corralled into a certain life, you kind of push against it. It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you’re trying to find out who you are,” reported ELLE magazine.
“I realised very young, that a life where you don’t live to your full potential, or you don’t experiment, or you’re afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do, but you just don’t get around to them, is a life that I’d be miserable living,” said Jolie, “the only way to feel that I’m on the right path, is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that’s maybe safe or traditional.”
“I never thought I’d have children, I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person,” added Jolie. “Having come from a broken home—you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.”
She also spoke about how her relationship with Pitt has evolved over the past eight years saying: “You get together and you’re two individuals and you feel inspired by each other, you challenge each other, you complement each other, drive each other beautifully crazy. After all these years, we have history—and when you have history with somebody, you’re friends in such a real, deep way, that there’s comfort, and ease, and deep love that comes from having been through quite a lot together.”
She also shared her thoughts on casting her daughter Vivienne in the upcoming movie Maleficent and how she and Pitt feel about the kids getting into show business. “For young Aurora, they needed a child who wouldn’t be fazed by the Mistress of All Evil. “And my little Vivienne—we call her my shadow, because there’s nothing I can do to shake her. I can be tired, I can be grumpy, I can be in a terrible mood, and she doesn’t care. It’s ‘Mommy, Mommy,’ and she’ll cling to me,” said Jolie. “We knew that she would still do that thing, she’d still smile at me and insist that I pick her up. So we couldn’t really cast anybody else.” Pax and nine-year-old Zahara also appear in the film, in cameos in the christening scene. “Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn’t keep them from sets and the fun of making movies, but we wouldn’t [glorify it either]—we wouldn’t make it a good thing or a bad thing. But I would really prefer they do something else, besides, after two days of it, Brad and I were so stressed we never wanted to do it again,” she concluded.
Published in The Express Tribune, May 10th, 2014.