I’m sure you’re reading this because you’d like to know more about Angelina Jolie and her life with the famous Brad Pitt. Well, I’m sure after reading this interview you’ll know Angelina Jolie pretty darn well. Angelina talks about her recent movie The Good Shepherd, Brad, her kids (Maddox, Zahara and Baby Shiloh) and how she feels about media and press.
Q: Your movie The Good Shepherd is about spying. Yet outside, a few feet away, are numerous photographers who, in a way, are spying on you. How do you deal with that?
Angelina: It hasn’t changed the way I live my life. I don’t dress for them. I don’t put on makeup for them. I do, though, have to plan where we go more carefully. I don’t let it affect us. But, you know, so many people have offered to take my kids to Disneyland, thinking that I can’t go. They don’t know how upsetting that is. I’m not a politician. I’m just an actor. It’s important that there be some fun in my life, too. My kids and I go to the movies or the mall, sure.
Q: The role of Clover is a quiet, introspective woman and quite different from the parts you usually play. What attracted you to doing it?
Angelina: I know that Bob De Niro (who directed) wanted to be sure that I could connect to her. He hesitated about giving me the part. I know he did. I am a modern woman (the movie is set in the mid-20th century). … She waited at home, but she wasn’t totally subservient. She’s a very quiet woman, not physical. I always try to take new roles that will stretch me. With her, I had to emphasize her thoughts. I couldn’t use physical movement to get her. I don’t identify with her in some ways, but that’s good. It’s much easier to play a woman who is very unlike myself. If I had ever been involved in alcoholism, I might have found it difficult to get there. I can identify with her fight for her son. I’m with her on that. But she’s very light and silly in the beginning. Then, too, she’s an unloved wife through most of it. Well? After all, I do have two divorces behind me, but I still am good friends with both my past husbands, so that’s OK.
Q: Do you think deception is necessary in a successful relationship?
Angelina: Quite the opposite. I don’t want to spend my life pretending to be someone else.
Q: With the CIA much in the news in the past few years, where do you think the United States stands now in world opinion?
Angelina: Everyone is suspicious of us. I’m aware of the changes in United States policy. Five years ago, I traveled, and when I said I was an American, everyone was excited. Now, you feel caution. They question my country. Americans are a very generous people, but that’s not what our government has suggested in recent years.I value my work with refugees. The program in Cambodia has become more successful than I dreamed. We support an orphanage in Ethiopia. And Brad is working with AIDS orphans in New Orleans. We are not fools. We give our money very, very carefully. Aside from my work, I’ve always been fascinated by travel. I love the culture, the plays and literature, of each country and currently am particularly studying Pakistan and India.
(Five years ago she was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency and accepted the responsibility of encouraging protection of refugees on five continents.)
Q. You age greatly in the film, more than in any others. How did you react to this?
Angelina: I think I’m going to love aging. But, then, what choice is there? For Clover they added yellow caps for the teeth and gray in the hair. I thought she looked lovely. But this is a kind of alcoholic aging which, hopefully, will be somewhat different from my own. (She is 31, and Pitt is 43.)
Q. When will you work with Brad again? (Their film Mr. and Mrs. Smith was a huge hit.)
Angelina: Who would take care of the children? I may have made a number of movies, but if you notice, I haven’t shot for more than seven weeks at a time in two years. When Brad’s working, he sometimes takes the children on the set with him. It’s a balance.
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