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| | Angelina Jolie on the possibility of running for office: 'Never say never' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last Friday, Angelina Jolie was in New York to attend meetings at the United Nations. She also gave a keynote address to committee, and her speech was all about women?s rights and the need to focus on women in warfare and conflict. Her speech was well-received, and basically, she seems perfectly at home at the UN, perfectly at home with speech-making and activism and problem-solving behind the scenes. We also know that Angelina carries several titles now: she?s a dame, she?s a professor, she?s a Special Envoy for the UNHCR, and she?s arguably a saint too. But would Angelina ever want the title of Senator Jolie or Congresswoman Jolie or President Jolie? Why not? She spoke to People Magazine about all of that more:
Whether she would ever run for office: ?Never say never. [But ] right now I am looking to others for leadership.?
Her work with women in conflict: ?I try to speak for what I believe in,? Jolie says of her causes. Currently, one of those causes is that the laws that treat women around the world like ?second class citizens? need to change. ?If you look across the world, there are far too many women and girls who are not only not seeing progress, their rights are slipping away from them,? Jolie says. But Jolie adds that the laws don?t just need to change. ?We also have to enforce them. So one of the things we are putting forward now is a proposal for a permanent international body to investigate war crimes, including mass rape and other sexual and gender-based violence.?
Her PSVI initiative, seven years later: ?There is now a lot more awareness and discussion and many more countries have made commitments. For example, 156 countries have pledged not to include amnesties for rape when they are negotiating peace agreements. It is hard to believe, but peace treaties routinely grant immunity to people who?ve carried out the most disgusting violent crimes against civilians. So we have to make sure all those countries live up to that commitment.?
She?s made lifelong friends along the way: ?The second UN mission I went on, to Cambodia, I met two women from England and France, Katie and Mimi, who were working with UNHCR. Loung was there as well, and we did a UN and HALO mission. We have all been friends ever since, for coming up on twenty years now. I feel very blessed in my work to have the opportunity to meet so many extraordinary people who spend their lives dedicated to others.?
[From People]
I kind of love that she talked about the friends she?s made along the way with her UNHCR. She gave an interview once I think with CNN? where she made an aside about how she doesn?t have many friends. The haters threw a party about that, like it wasn?t just some random aside she made without thinking. She has friends, they just aren?t performative Instagram-friendships. They?re built on substantive work and shared humanitarian goals. As for running for officeI mean, I doubt it. I don?t think she would run for office here in America. But in Britain? Why not.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Angelina Jolie should do 'The Eternals,' it sounds like an amazing franchise | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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My contrarian nature means that I generally don?t feel the hype for whatever big extravaganza movie is coming out. If I see a Marvel movie eventually, I?m fine, but if I miss one or several, I?m fine with that too. But I?m genuinely hyped for the rumor that Angelina Jolie is in talks for her first superhero movie. We learned that Jolie is in talks for The Eternals, which is part of Marvel?s latest phase. The film will be directed by Chloe Zhao, which is probably one of the attractions for Angelina, the chance to work with an esteemed female director. As many of you pointed out, being ?in talks? isn?t a sure thing, and obviously there are several actors who were in talks for Marvel movies and nothing happened. But the more I?m reading about The Eternals, the more I think Angelina would be amazing in the lead role. The Hollywood Reporter had a lengthy primer on the comic and mythology, and the role of Sersi, which is the role Angelina is likely in talks to play.
While details on the film have been locked up tighter than Odins vault, The Eternals, based on the epic saga by comic book legend Jack Kirby, focuses on immortal superpowered beings created by the Celestials, the cosmic giants seen in the Infinity Stones sequence in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014). Zhaos film is said to be led by Sersi and Ikaris, two Eternals whose love story rests at the center of an eons-spanning conflict. Marvel had no comment on who Jolie might play, but given that shes the first actor to be cast, it seems likely that shes up for the transmutation-powered Sersi. Jolie also looks a great deal like many artists depiction of the character. But who is Sersi? And what does Jolies casting tell us about the film?
Unlike the previous films that have made up the Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Eternals is based around largely unknown entities, even for most comic book readers. This unknown quality plus the fact that Marvel Comics hasnt made much effort in reprinting Kirbys series or key appearances of the characters (yet), adds a level of excitement and novelty to Zhaos feature. As a property thats more situated in the realm of sci-fi and fantasy than superhero yarns, learning about the Eternals is akin to taking a deep-dive into J.R.R. Tolkiens Middle-earth history or George R.R. Martins Westeros and Essos When it comes to the Celestials, the Eternals and their evil counterparts the Deviants (Thanos race), this is heavy Marvel mythology, the building blocks of the universe, and far more complex than anything weve seen Marvel Studios adapt thus far.
Created by Jack Kirby, Sersi first appeared in Strange Tales No. 109 (1963), with the name spelled Circe, then later as Sersi in The Eternals No. 3 (1976). The distinction in spelling highlights a very important aspect of The Eternals comic book history. While Greek gods and goddesses exist in the Marvel Universe, they would often let the Olympia-based Eternals represent their physical forms for the humans on Earth, hence many of the Eternals sharing names similar to their Greek counterparts. This distinction sounds like something the MCU will merge and just make the Eternals the inspiration for the Greek Pantheon, like the Asgardians were the basis for the Norse Gods. The comics have already done some of this synthesizing. Sersi inspired the poet Homer, who included her under the name Circe in The Odyssey in which she turned men into swine. Because of her powers to manipulate matter and rearrange molecular structures, she was often seen as a witch rather than a result of alien experimentation, allowing her to move across comic book genres.
While most of the Eternals eventually returned to the cosmos in search of their larger destiny, Sersi remained on Earth, fascinated with its people and customs. She involved herself in key moments in history, lived in ancient Rome and Camelot, fought alongside Thor and the Vikings in the gods youth and later joined the Avengers.
Having lived for millennia, Sersi has taken on many roles on Earth and has changed her personality as shes seen fit, taking the most out of her immortal existence. This worldliness and interest in alleviating human conflict and suffering falls in line with Jolies own humanitarian and conservation effortsIts impossible to capture the massive potential and mythology of The Eternals through one character and casting choice. But Jolies involvement at least gives us a better idea of whats coming down the road post-Avengers: Endgame. Marvel Studios boss Kevin Feige has promised a very different MCU after April 26, and if Jolies casting and Sersis eons-spanning history and mythology is any indication, Marvels storytelling and casting is only growing in ambition.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
The reason this is so appealing to me as a Jolie fan/stan is the idea of Jolie as an ageless goddess who moves through the mortal world, dipping in and out of history for millennia. Angelina as Sersi in Camelot, or ancient Rome, or the Renaissance? Come on. I would stan this franchise.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and Avalon Red.
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| | Angelina Jolie is in talks for her first 'superhero' movie, Marvel's 'The Eternals' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few weeks ago, Angelina Jolie walked the red carpet at the LA premiere of Disney?s Dumbo. She brought her four youngest kids too. Jolie doesn?t have a role in Dumbo, but she?d worked with some of the special effects team before, and as I pointed out at the time, Angelina is a Disney Lady now. In addition to Maleficent and the sequel (Maleficent: Mistress of Evil!!), she?s working for/with Disney on several other projects too. I also said in that Dumbo post: ?I expected her to end up in a Star Wars movie and/or a Marvel movie.? Well, guess what? Chica got a Marvel movie.
Angelina Jolie is getting ready to make her first foray into the world of superhero movies. The Oscar-winning actress is in talks to star in Marvel Studios The Eternals, a superhero team adventure feature being directed by Chloe Zhao.
Jolie has chosen the Marvel project based on the Jack Kirby-created title about superpowered and near-immortal beings known as Eternals and a more monstrous offshoot known as the Deviants that were created by the cosmic beings called Celestials.
While details about the movie are being kept under wraps, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter that one aspect to the story involves the love story between Ikaris, a man fueled by cosmic energy, and Sersi, who relishes moving amongst humans. It is unclear who Jolie will play. Marvel had no comment.
While this will be Jolie?s first superhero movie, it is not her first comic book movie? she starred in the 2007 adaptation of Mark Millar?s Wanted.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
La Jolie + Marvel = something I can get behind. Sorry, Avengers. Of course, I don?t know anything about The Eternals and whether this is actually a good property, but if it?s being produced by Marvel and they?re throwing their money behind it, that means it will make a billion dollars and Angelina will be the first lady of Disney/Marvel. Yay.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie brought her four youngest kids out to the LA premiere of 'Dumbo' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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One of the smartest moves Angelina Jolie ever made for her career was getting in bed with Disney. She seemed to surprise herself by enjoying the process of making and promoting the first Maleficent movie, and after her split from Brad Pitt, Angelina has been doing a lot of stuff with Disney, like Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and voice work on The One and Only Ivan. I expected her to end up in a Star Wars movie and/or a Marvel movie.
Anyway, Angelina is a Disney Lady now, so she came out to support Disney?s latest, the live-action Dumbo, directed by Tim Burton. It?s weird Tim Burton and Angelina have never worked together, right? They seem like? they would get along. Angelina doesn?t have many connections to the actors in the film, but apparently the Disney peeps involved with Dumbo are the same ones who worked on Maleficent. Oh? Colin Farrell is in the film. He and Angelina used to deal with each other, very briefly, fifteen years ago. Cough. Maybe they are dealing with each other again. Cough.
It?s also possible that Angelina just wanted to be a cool mom and take her kids to see Dumbo. Angelina brought her four youngest children to the premiere, and they all posed on the carpet. Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox were all there. Maddox and Pax are too old to be enchanted by a tale of a magical flying elephant, sob. I don?t have an ID on Angelina?s dress, but it?s beautiful. It looks sort of familiar, like she?s possible worn it before, years ago.
Here are some photos of the cast of Dumbo Michael Keaton doing his thing, Colin looking like a snack, and Eva Green in an optical illusion Iris van Herpen gown (Eva?s makeup is terrible, btw).
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie steps out with Pax, they went shopping on Melrose in LA | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie stepped out this weekend with her son Pax. They went shopping on Melrose Avenue, which is sort of an old-school pap stroll. What I always think is interesting is that Angelina Jolie has a certain image, which is largely self-created. That image is badass action heroine/globe-trotting humanitarian/studio-director. She?s all of those things. But she?s also a woman who has spent most of her life in LA. She grew up there. She presumably spent part of her adolescence shopping on Melrose with her mom. She?s raising her kids partially in LA, and she?s continuing that multigenerational LA life.
Anyway, people were making a big deal last week about how Angelina was probably very upset about Brad Pitt attending Jennifer Aniston?s birthday party, and all of the subsequent PR shenanigans about Brad & Jen 2.0. I honestly doubt Angelina gives a sh-t, just like I never believed she gave a sh-t about Neri Oxman or Charlize Theron or whoever else Brad was trying to date. Again, she dumped him. She?s living her life.
Also: remember when Angelina invented white blouses and trench coats?? LOL. I love her whole outfit here, even if I think that white blouse makes her look a tad preggo. Wouldn?t that be something? She?s not pregnant, of course. She?s just gained a little weight and it looks so good on her.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie & Shiloh got a new pet at their local Petco: kitten or bunny? | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In this coming week?s Gossip With Celebitchy podcast, I admitted something dreadful: if I could ?borrow? any celebrity?s style, I realistically would borrow Angelina Jolie?s style vibes. This is not an endorsement of her entire closet or every single thing she?s ever worn. It?s just that Angelina wears a lot of black and she likes a good trouser or regular pair of pants. She likes a simple blouse and a well-cut coat. She keeps it really simple, and I appreciate that. My vibe is pretty simple too, but Angelina?s vibe is better. It?s goth-lite, with sack dresses and a vague ?70s feel. These photos made me think of our podcast conversation!
Angelina stepped out this weekend with Shiloh. They went to Petco and of course they wound up buying a pet. The pet container looks too small for a puppy and too big for something like a hamster or gerbil. My guess is that they got a rabbit or a kitten. And before everybody climbs up Angie?s butt about ?buying an animal? rather than adopting one from a shelter? my local Petco has an arrangement with the shelters, so they bring in a supply of shelter kitties and puppies and you can buy them there, in-store. And you?re paying for their shots and spay/neuter. My guess is that Angelina?s local Petco has a similar arrangement, at least with cats and dogs. But, as I said, this box is rabbit-sized too. Shiloh seems like the kind of kid who wants a rabbit, right? I imagine her practicing magic tricks and a rabbit would definitely be part of her act.
As I said, I like Angelina?s whole style vibe here the black blouse is really cute, and I like that she?s sprinkled with some very delicate-looking jewelry simple rings, a thin bracelet, small earrings and a long pendant necklace of some variety. The boots are my favorite part!
PS It just occurred to me that this could be a snake or a lizard or something? But do they put snakes and lizards in these kinds of boxes?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie still shops at malls all the time & she even brings her kids | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I recently read a Twitter thread about the differences between Generation X, Xennials and Millennials, and now I?m thinking about it with regards to Angelina Jolie. Angelina has always been rather low-tech, hasn?t she? Angelina is Gen-X, but so many of her references feel so ?70s. She prefers a less modern approach to life. She has a iPhone of course, but I bet she still calls people on her landline. She still shops in malls, which few people do at this point, and she encourages her kids to do crafts. I bet she has a typewriter.
Anyway, these are some photos of Angelina making yet another trip to a mall. She took Knox, Zahara and an assistant-type to the Century City Westfield Mall over the weekend. She looked like any other mom, I guess. Black slacks, black boots, black coat and a simple white blouse. Zahara is such a fashionista, right? So fashion-forward. I wish Zahara would really start styling her mom.
I?ve missed seeing Angelina during the awards season, but I wonder if she?ll come out for the Oscars, as a presenter? She doesn?t have anything immediate to promote, and Brad Pitt actually produced two of the films which are likely to get some Oscar nominations (If Beale Street Could Talk and Beautiful Boy). I?d say that Brad is more likely to make a surprise appearance at the hostless Oscars, especially since he?s been doing some low-key campaigning for the films he?s produced, but you never know. I could also see Angelina stopping by.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie took the kids to a CBS's 'survivor' reunion event, that really happened | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie has long eschewed the more traditional Hollywood scene. Even though she seems to have made LA her homebase for the past few years while she and Brad are divorcing we rarely hear about her going to industry parties or events or even screenings. Like, I can?t even remember any time when Angelina might have taken the kids to a screening of a new film that she wasn?t involved in. If she takes the kids to a movie, they actually go to a movie theater and they buy tickets. Anyway, all of this to say? Angelina went to a party. An industry-type party. The party was forSurvivor? Oh, Angie.
Who knew Angelina Jolie was a Survivor fan? A source tells PEOPLE the actress, 43, and some of her children attended the Survivor live reunion of the show?s 37th season, David vs. Goliath, in Los Angeles on Dec. 19.
?They had a great time,? says the source. ?The kids really enjoyed it.?
Jolie?s attendance at the long-running CBS show, which has already aired, might have surprised a few but it stemmed from her friendship with writer, producer and actor Mike White, who was a contestant in the latest season as a member of the Goliath tribe. The two became friends while working on the upcoming Disney film The One and Only Ivan based on the 2012 novel by K. A. Applegate. White wrote the screenplay while Jolie stars in and serves as a producer in the film.
A second source tells PEOPLE White, 48, and a small group of friends headed to Jolie?s home for an impromptu gathering after the reunion was taped.
[From People]
Fun fact: Mike White is a prolific screenwriter and writer of episodic television, and one of his most famous screenplays was *drumroll* The Good Girl, which was one of Jennifer Aniston?s indie vehicles back in 2002. Mike White is also an actor, and he appeared in The Good Girl with Aniston, and I remember hearing about how they became friends too. And now he?s friends with Angelina. When will Angie ever stop stealing Jennifer?s men, huh??? Anyway, it makes some kind of sense that Angelina just did this because she?s friendly with Mike White, as opposed to Angelina sitting at home, becoming a major fan of Survivor and pulling strings (???) to get into the reunion party. LMAO. Fk it, maybe that is a better story alone and desperate, the Villainess Jolie becomes an avid consumer of reality TV. She stans for Survivor, Vanderpump Rules and, of course, the Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie on 'narrow nationalism?: 'I am a patriot but I am also an internationalist' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last Friday, Angelina Jolie guest edited the BBC Radio 4 program Today. We knew she was doing it ahead of time Angelina has become more involved in the media, and even more specifically, she?s become more involved in British media. BBC Radio 4 even posted some nice photos of Angelina hard at work behind-the-scenes:
Good morning. Angelina Jolie has edited today's programme. @mishalhusainbbc and @justinonweb are presenting #r4today pic.twitter.com/pXoGV1vbB4
BBC Radio 4 Today (@BBCr4today) December 28, 2018
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| | Angelina Jolie will executive-produce a BBC current affairs show for kids | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Do you think Angelina Jolie would ever run for political office? Ten years ago, five years ago, even two years ago, I would have said no way. I would have said that Angelina feels like she can do the most good by working the system from the outside. But in the first heat of Angelina and Brad Pitt?s divorce, there were claims that Brad was disconcerted by Angelina?s gradual move to politics, and that she seemed to be moving towards a political career? in the UK. I thought that was just part of his smear campaign, just an attempt to paint Angelina as a harpy who made him unhappy in every way. But considering that 2018 was the year where women stood up and said ?fk this, I?m running for office,? I?m starting to wonder if Angelina?s long-term plan is going to focused on UK politics. She?s building a real life for herself in the UK, and now this:
Angelina Jolie has joined an upcoming BBC current affairs show for children set to land in 2019. Our World, which Jolie will executive produce, will begin as a 10-episode weekly program aimed at promoting global media literacy among children aged 7-12. According to BBC-commissioned U.K. research, seven is the age that children become aware of the news and 12.6 is the average age a U.S. child signs up for a social media account, so the time between represents a window to instill in children the value of asking questions and a chance to develop critical thinking.
?There has never been a time when it was more important to introduce the next generation to objective, impartial news and factual explanation of the events and issues shaping our world, said Jolie. Children today are exposed to a lot of opinion, but not necessarily to information that is fact-based and reliable. Jolie added: As a mother, I am very pleased that the BBC World Service is taking this step. It is also important to me that the project is global, and will help young people in different countries to be connected to each other and to have greater awareness and understanding of the news on an international basis.
This project aims to be global in scope, engaging children from Argentina to Zimbabwe. It will kick off with an English version but the BBC will seek production partners to expand programming into multiple languages.
Our World will be a multimedia project with digital and broadcast elements, including a weekly half-hour TV show. The BBC will launch a 10-week trial of the project and is in talks with a number of international digital and broadcast media organizations interested in co-production and distribution. The pilot TV programs will be distributed via the World Service?s existing TV partnerships and via other suitable broadcasters internationally.
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
Maybe I?m dating myself, but I grew up with this kind of thing in my classroom Channel One was a fixture of my public school education from, like, grades 5 through 10? It was a news broadcast for kids and used as an educational supplement, and the news was pretty international, looking back on it. This sounds like a great project for Angelina, and for kids around the world. It?s true that kids understand a lot more than we think they do, and even if they?re not able to process every single thing that?s happening in the world, it?s good to expose them to specialized programming that doesn?t talk down to them. Will Angelina need to spend more time in the UK to executive produce this show?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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