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| | Angelina Jolie Does Vanity Fair | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Yeeeah |
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Angelina Jolie sat down with Vanity Fair to discuss her directorial and screenwriting debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” the tale of a Bosnian refugee who falls in love with her captor. Us Magazine says:
The star feverishly wrote the script for the Bosnian War romance while feeling under the weather.
“I had the flu. I had to be quarantined from the children for two days. I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn’t know any other way.”
She got the thumbs up on her screenplay from [partner Brad] Pitt himself. “He called and said, ‘You know, honey, it’s not that bad.’”
And her man remained “so supportive” throughout the project, she gushes. “He’d come in and say what he liked or what he didn’t understand. Like any woman, I would listen to most of it and fight a few things…It’s hard to separate the person that loves you from the critic, so I don’t think he’s a fair judge.”
You know, as a writer, I did some of my best work when I had the flu last year, too. Once I downed a couple of bottles of Robotussin, I started seeing all kinds of crazy shit. My brain just exploded with creativity. Well, technically, the doctor said it was more of an “aneurysm,” and that everything I had written appeared to be in Sanskrit, but still. I think we can all agree it was still way more interesting than any of the shit I wrote today.
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| | Angelina Jolie covers Vanity Fair's October issue, talks about directing | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Would you like a giant closeup of Angelina Jolie?s head? Why not?!? Jolie covers the October issue of Vanity Fair, and I?ll admit to squealing a little when I saw that she had gotten a VF cover again. I believe this is her fourth Vanity Fair cover in six years. She deserves it, although historically, I find her interviews with the magazine a little hit-or-miss. I usually enjoy her Vogue interviews a lot more. Anyway, Angelina did the cover because she?s promoting her feature film directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey. The photos were done by Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott. VF has already released some highlights from the piece:
Despite recent reports, Angelina Jolie assures Vanity Fair contributing editor Rich Cohen that there is ?no secret wedding? in the works for her and Pitt. ?I?m not pregnant. I?m not adopting at the moment,? the star tells Cohen.
?Brad thinks I?m going to be a nightmare,? Jolie jokes, telling how directing her new movie, In the Land of Blood and Honey, has changed the way she will approach her acting career. ?I had such a good experience he thinks I?m going to be impatient with directors, which I already am. I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it?s the most complicated thing in the world.?
?I?ve never felt more exposed. My whole career, I?ve hidden behind other people?s words,? Jolie tells Cohen of her screenwriting and feature directorial debut. ?Now it?s me talking. You feel ridiculous when you get something wrong.?
?I had the flu,? Jolie says of how she came to write the script. ?I had to be quarantined from the children for two days. I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don?t watch TV and I wasn?t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn?t know any other way.? She says she then let Brad take the script to read on a trip: ?He called and said, ?You know, honey, it?s not that bad.??
Jolie admits she did not initially intend to direct the film. ?It was something I didn?t trust out of my hands,? she explains. ?So by default I ended up putting myself in as director.?
Of her decision to use all unknown actors from the region, she says, ?It couldn?t be anybody else. It?s their story. It was important that they were willing to do it. If none of them were willing, I wouldn?t have made it.?
Jolie does elaborate on Brad?s supportive role throughout the project. ?He?d come in and say what he liked or what he didn?t understand. Like any woman, I would listen to most of it and fight a few things. He?s been so supportive. But it?s hard to separate the person that loves you from the critic, so I don?t think he?s a fair judge.? But she goes on to say that ?people will judge for themselves. I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.?
Before shooting, Jolie says, she sent the script to ?reporters and writers, people of Serbian and Bosnian nationality who?d been through the war. I was gauging the accuracy?. If they said no, I wouldn?t have done it.?
[From Vanity Fair]
As I?ve said before, I?m worried about this movie. A lot. I don?t know how ?You know, honey, it?s not that bad? becomes ?Let?s give Angelina $15 million to direct her own script.? Now, I?m glad that Angelina is challenging herself as an artist, and I think it?s cool that she wrote a script and followed through and all of that. I will also defend Angelina against the accusations that the storyline she wrote is somehow offensive to women in general or Bosnian women specifically. My concerns about the film are more superficial than that - I just wonder if the film is going to be any good. Like, will it be watchable? Or will it just be a movie star?s ego up there on the screen?
Photos courtesy of Vanity Fair.
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| | Angelina Jolie makes a visit to HALO Trust in Scotland to talk about landmines | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When Angelina Jolie visited Croatia a few days ago, she took a meeting with the president of the country, allegedly at his request. The president wanted to ask for Angelina?s help with their on-going landmine problem. Angelina has some history with the cause of landmine removal - in her extensive Cambodian property, Angelina has had to spend the money to have hundreds of acres de-mined (and the property is part of a nature preserve now). Also, Angelina met with de-mining groups years ago, in Angola, as part of her UNHCR work. Anyway, after her visit to Croatia, Angelina went back to Scotland (where she and her family are staying for Brad?s film schedule), and she went to the headquarters of HALO Trust, one of the leading anti-landmine and de-mining non-profits around.
Angelina Jolie and her family visited HALO?s global headquarters in Scotland this weekend.
She and Brad Pitt have been long-term supporters of HALO, and visited our projects in a number of mine-impacted countries. Their financial support to HALO has run to many hundreds of thousands of pounds, funding humanitarian mineclearance teams in Cambodia, Sri Lanka, Kosovo and Afghanistan. This was her first visit to the HQ, and was a chance for a global briefing by senior HALO staff on the current landmine problem.
Guy Willoughby, co-founder and Director of the Trust, said:
It was a great opportunity for us to talk through the projects and also plan our demining priorities for the future ? identifying which communities in different countries are most in need of our support.
Angelina Jolie said:
It was a privilege to visit the HALO headquarters and meet their committed staff. In the aftermath of war, HALO?s mineclearing efforts are fundamental to a safe return and community building.
[From HALO Trust?s press release]
If the organization sounds familiar, it?s because Princess Diana did a lot of work with HALO in the last year of her life, and Prince Harry has followed in his mother’s footsteps. There?s also a claim that Brad and Angelina has donated ?hundreds of thousands of pounds? to HALO through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
For more about the HALO Trust, go here.
Photos courtesy of Fame and Fiona Willoughby/HALO Trust.
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| | Angelina Jolie went to Croatia to see 'King Lear' & talk about landmines | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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These are photos of Angelina Jolie in Croatia, where she stayed for about 48 hours on a whirlwind trip in which she met with Croatia?s president and took in a production of King Lear. Angelina brought her two oldest sons, Pax and Maddox, and there are even some blurry, low-quality pics of Angelina and Madd (below, at the end of the post). She went to the King Lear production at the invitation of actor Rade Serbedzija, the white-haired gentleman in these photos. He?s also been in about a million films, and one of the latest projects is In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina?s feature directorial debut (she previously directed a documentary, A Place In Time).
According to a reader of this site, Jolie ?managed to say that she liked? the King Lear production, which featured ?mostly pretty bad actors? (this is according to the Celebitchy reader!). Google Translator claims Angelina said, ?This was an incredible experience. Brilliant performances that celebrate the remarkable way the theater. Otherwise I’m a big fan of Rade Serbedzija, I enjoyed working with him. I have no words for his work, and I hope to be with him one day and play with him.? I sure he would enjoy that very much! She also took a meeting with the president about land mines, apparently at HIS request. Pres. Ivo Josipovic asked Jolie to help with Croatia?s landmine problem:
Angelina Jolie met with the president of Croatia on Friday (19Aug11) to discuss how to tackle land mines in the country.
The actress, who is in Europe while her partner Brad Pitt films his new movie World War Z in various locations around the U.K., flew into Croatia as a guest of her friend and fellow actor Rade Serbedzija.
But Jolie, who serves as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations, turned the trip into a charity mission as she used the opportunity to meet with President Ivo Josipovic.
The pair discussed the nation’s ongoing problem with land mines, which have remained since the country’s war of independence in the 1990s.
[From Contact Music]
After that meeting, Angelina and the boys went to the island of Brijuni and had some beach time - or not? I don?t know, I think I might be getting the timeline of event wrong. But the gist is the same - King Lear, meeting with the president, beach time.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | Angelina Jolie Meets with Croatia's President | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Flying in from her temporary home in Scotland, Angelina Jolie made her way to the Adriatic island of Brijuni, Croatia for a very important meeting on Friday night (August 19).
Wearing a chic black dress, the "Tourist" actress joined up with Croatia's President Ivo Josipovic and actor Rade Serbedzija as they trio were surrounded by media members while walking around the Central European locale.
During the course of her visit, Miss Jolie also attended a theatre play while chatting with President Josipovic about land mines problems that still remain from the country's 1991-1995 war era.
The Croatian visit comes as Angelina has been alongside her six children while staying in London and Glasgow while Brad Pitt films his new movie "World War Z".
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| | Angelina Jolie wears a trash bag, takes her girls to the toy store again | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Angelina taking her two oldest girls to a store in Richmond - the same toy store they went to a few weeks ago. I guess the girls had some stuff on lay-away? Haha. Am I alone in having moments of lower-middle-class-ness and having a mother who would put stuff on lay-away? It?s funny to think Angelina could have been like, ?Er, can you hold this for me for two weeks, I have to find some way to pay for it!?
Here?s the question of the day: WTF is with Angelina Jolie and the trash bag couture? It?s not like this is the first time she?s worn an outfit resembling a trash bag - remember this? She likes her clothes like she likes her Hefty bags - shiny, plastic and black. Perhaps trash bag style is easier to clean for all of her dominatrix duties? Mistress Hefty. Knowing Angelina, this is probably something new that she picked up and now she?s going to wear this shiny, fug camisole for the next two years in photo-ops. Sigh? I miss that fug black hippie dress that she used to wear all the time. I wonder wear that is? She probably left it France.
As for the girls - Zahara looks pissed off that she?s being photographed, as usual. Maybe she?s just mad that her mom put her toys on lay-away?? Maybe she?s mad that her mom is wearing a camisole made out of an old Hefty. Shiloh, meanwhile, continues to stick her tongue out at everyone. You know what I always look at on Shiloh? Her nose! Where did she get that nose? Is that Angelina?s or Brad?s? I always assumed Angelina got a nose job when she was teenager, but Shiloh?s nose looks a lot like Angelina?s current nose, so? (gasp)? is that Angelina?s original nose?
Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.
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| | Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie's London Family Travels | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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Taking some time for their kids, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were spotted out in London, England today (August 16).
The ?Fight Club? stud and the ?Changeling? chick took their brood to the Euston train station to board a chartered train to Glasgow, Scotland where Pitt is working on ?World War Z.?
In career news, Brad is in talks to play the lead role in the New Regency film ?The Gray Man,? based on Mark Greaney?s thriller novel.
Pitt would play a CIA agent-turned-elite assassin who is on the run when his last job goes bad. While dodging the forces who are out to get him, he has to keep his family safe.
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| | Angelina Jolie takes the older kids out to 'shrek the Musical' | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The Empress! We?ve had so many sightings of The Empress lately. It?s a good omen - Zahara?s presence in England must have calmed down the rioters. Or maybe she just really likes England, probably because she carefully studies the British monarchy to prepare for her gradual global domination. God Save the Empress. Sidenote: I love her little fist. I feel like she?s photographed making a fist often enough to say that Zahara can take care of herself. She may be girly and she may allow Shiloh to carry the ?tomboy? torch, but something tells me that Zahara will cut a bitch who steps out of line.
Anyway, these are new photos of Angelina out with the four older kids on Sunday. She took Zahara, Shiloh, Maddox and Pax to a matinee of Shrek the Musical in London?s West End. Brad?s already gone, by the way, having abandoned his family once again for what?s turning out to be a pretty long film shoot for World War Z. He?s in Scotland now - I wonder why Angelina and the kids didn?t go with him? Surely the Empress would have been the hit of Scotland.
By the way, look at the photos of this unknown child below. Who is it? I have a theory. It?s FAX CANNES JOLIE-PITT!! He/she has been spotted! I was just looking at photos of the kids the other day, and I thought to myself, ?Damn, it?s been forever since Fax has been out and about.? He/she is really getting big! (Sidenote: In case you don?t remember, Fax Cannes ?Mystery? Jolie-Pitt was my filler name for random Jolie-Pitt babies when I couldn?t identify them, and then Mystery/Fax became a whole other mythological child, The Hidden Jolie-Pitt, the one that only makes an appearance every so often.) Seriously, though, who is this kid? I guess he?s a friend of Maddox and/or Pax and/or Fax.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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| | Angelina Jolie and the Brood's "Shrek" Family Fun | | Added 13 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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It's been a family-focused weekend, and Angelina Jolie was back in mommy mode while out with her children in London on Sunday (August 14).
Dressed in an all black ensemble, the "Wanted" actress and a few helping hands took Pax, Maddox, Shiloh and Zahara to Theatre Royal to catch a stage show of the beloved ogre tale "Shrek".
The previous day, Miss Jolie was alongside partner Brad Pitt, with the Hollywood power couple spending the afternoon with twins Knox and Vivienne and daughters Shiloh and Zahara.
After buying a few bicycles at Halfords, the happy family later took to a water vessel anchored in Richmond to check out a puppet show performance aboard the boat.
As previously reported by GossipCenter, the Jolie-Pitt clan is situated in the UK while Brad continues filming his ambitious new project titled "World War Z".
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| | Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie take the twins out to a puppet show on a barge | | Added 13 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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How cute are these photos? Yesterday, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie took the Empress, Shiloh, and the twins to a puppet show in England. The show is called ?the Puppet Theatre Barge? which takes place literally on a barge on the Thames. From the stuffed animals the kids are holding, my guess is that part of the puppet show involves dinosaurs, right?
Anyway, these are some of the first photos of Vivienne where I didn?t feel like she was on a cusp of a major hissy. I?ve always said that about Viv - she just has one of those faces where she always looks like she?s about to break out in an earth-shattering wail. But now she?s a big girl, and her mom even let her walk on her own, and she looks happier - Brad is carrying Knox, who definitely seems like the more easy-going twin. I think Knox looks a hell of a lot like Brad, don?t you? Although Knox?s hair looks like it?s got some ginger to it. I swear, Knox is going to end up looking like Michael Fassbender. And that?s going to be awesome.
Thoughts on Vivienne?s oufit? She seems to like more girlish ensembles - at her age, Shiloh was already dressing like a tomboy, so at least we?re going to be spared tabloid covers about how Vivienne is 3-year-old lesbian, because she wears dockers and likes to play rough with her brothers. I like Viv?s little Mary Janes! So cute.
The Empress! Such a face.
Photos courtesy of Fame.
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