An interview with Angelina Jolie...
Oscar-winner, humanitarian and blessed with enviable looks the camera loves, Angelina Jolie tells Jessica Young why her brood of six children will always be the most important thing in her life...
Building myths around celebrities is easily done – but surely no one in Hollywood has as much speculation, gossip and downright untruth swirling around them as Angelina Jolie. Despite having been in the public eye since her early 20s when she won a Golden Globe for TV film Gia, her wild behaviour, dazzling looks and tabloid-friendly early marriages to fellow actors Johnny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton ensured her notoriety just kept growing. But it was when she met Brad Pitt on the set of Mr and Mrs Smith in 2005, and went on to create a family of six adopted and biological children, that she became the most famous actress in the world.
And at 36, she’s in her prime. Making her directorial debut with Bosnian war film In The Land of Blood and Honey, glowing with the joys of motherhood and clearly very happy in her relationship, it seems she’s finally found the work-life balance that’s previously eluded her.
“If I was just doing one thing I wouldn’t feel balanced at all,” she admits. “I’m fortunate that I have a great partner and my children have a wonderful father. When I’m working, he’s with the kids and when he’s working, I’m with the kids.”
Even with the couple’s hectic schedules, they try not to rely on nannies to watch their Walton-style tribe: Maddox, 10, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 5, and Vivienne and Knox, 3.
“If I go on a trip, Brad jumps in and cancels things so he can be at home,” explains Angelina. It all sounds so very normal, but surely having six kids and two stellar careers means something has to give? The casualty is usually the relationship.
“You have to have date nights if you have children,” agrees Angelina. “We just have to schedule it,” she laughs. “Once a week or every two weeks, depending on work, we’ll ask someone to spend the night with the kids so we can go to another part of the house and lock a door!”
It looks like the famed ‘Brangelina’ passion is still sizzling, despite tales of her ‘jealousy’ of the PA/co-star/tea boy on Brad’s new film, World War Z. There’s also the endless speculation about the long-gone marriage of Brad and Jennifer Aniston – six years on, barely a week passes without a story on the ‘love triangle’.
Angelina wisely declines to give the stories any credence. “I could have the worst day in the world with people saying the most horrible things about me,” she shrugs, “but then I go home and my kids love me and I feel like the most important person in the world.”
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