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| | Angelina Jolie & Vivienne picked up coronavirus supplies at Whole Foods | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I felt attacked yesterday when I expressed my confusion about whether I should overreact or underreact to the coronavirus pandemic if I?m feeling okay. I went to the gym yesterday, and I picked up some more supplies at a grocery store. I?m prepared to socially distance and all of that, but the scenes are surreal and the shaming is real! It doesn?t help matters that when I am out, I see tons of people everywhere. Not as many people as usual, but still I get that ?people on the internet? are taking quarantining and social distancing and self-isolating seriously. But are other people?
So I don?t know what to think about Angelina Jolie doing some last-minute grocery shopping with her daughter Vivienne. They went to Whole Foods yesterday and came out with two big paper bags full of supplies. There are five kids at home with Angelina now, with Maddox in college in South Korea. If the Jolie-Pitt clan tries to self-isolate in LA, they?re going to need more supplies than that. Also: Angelina, by her own admission, can?t cook. My girl can?t boil an egg. Maybe they?re just getting Uber Eats or food deliveries?
Also: Angelina?s commitment to sack-dressing is really something. I?m actually pleased that she?s not wearing a black sack dress at the moment. It?s spring, so she went with a summery sack. The dress looks like a costume from Midsommer. And I friggin? love her sunglasses. Little Vivi doesn?t want to be photographed though. Paparazzi in the time of corona.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie 'has been in her pajamas, in the pediatric ward' for the past two months | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For International Women?s Day, Angelina Jolie contributed another column to Time Magazine, where she has a contributing-editor gig. I think she does one or two columns a month? Something like that. Jolie?s column, as we discussed yesterday, was about how girls inherently nurture people, and how that nurturing is taken for granted and abused. Angelina discussed this in the context of seeing two of her daughters go through surgery. She didn?t name which daughters had what done, but we surmised that Zahara had surgery and was in the hospital for a while and that Vivienne or Shiloh was also recently hospitalized with a hip issue? The wording was confusing, but we got a clarification: Vivienne is fine and she was not hospitalized, although Viv did spend a lot of time with her sisters while they were hospitalized. Shiloh is currently on crutches for some kind of issue. Considering her wild tomboy vibe, my guess is still skateboarding accident, or maybe a dune buggy crash? People Magazine spoke to a ?source? who confirmed that Angelina has been spending so much time over the past two months at the hospital with her girls:
While the Maleficent actress referred directly to 15-year-old Zahara, she didn?t specify which of her two younger daughters underwent hip surgery. However, PEOPLE has confirmed that, Shiloh, 13, was photographed walking on crutches over the weekend while out shopping with her mom and sister, Vivienne, 11. Zahara was also seen stepping out after her surgeries, attending Cirque du Soleil with her family, where she was seen wearing an IV drip.
A source from the hospital tells PEOPLE that Jolie has been by her kids? side for the past two months as they were in and out of the hospital.
?She?s been in her pajamas, in the pediatric ward, by their side,? the source says.
Another source tells PEOPLE that the girls are now on the mend. ?They look to be recovering,? the insider says.
[From People]
This actually answers some questions I had about Angelina?s utter non-engagement with Brad Pitt?s nonsense during the awards season. He was so clearly looking to get a reaction from Jolie, almost like he couldn?t help but bait her. And she didn?t take the bait she did not issue any statements, nor did any ?sources close to Angelina? speak to People Magazine during his campaign. As it turns out, we also solved another mystery: the mystery of why Brad skipped the BAFTAs. He was apparently spending time with either Zahara or Shiloh. He made sure to leak that to Page Six:
Brad Pitt missed the BAFTAs to be by his daughter?s side as she recovered from an operation, multiple sources confirm to Page Six. In February, the star canceled his trip to London at the last minute ? and sent co-star Margot Robbie in his place to pick up his gong for his role in Quentin Tarantino?s ?Once Upon a Time in ? Hollywood.?
He cited a ?family obligation? at the time, as a source close to the actor told us: ?The children come before anything.?
As ex-wife Angelina Jolie revealed that two of their daughters have recently undergone surgery, a friend of the family confirmed that Pitt ? who dedicated his Oscar win to his six kids ? stayed home in LA to support his daughters. However, the friend admitted that Pitt had never spoken publicly about his kids ? and never will ? as Jolie spoke out.
[From Page Six]
Can Brad Pitt really claim any kind of moral high ground on ?never? speaking about his kids when he clearly sent his publicist to Page Six to confirm that he was, in fact, spending time with his kids? And historically, Brad has talked about his children, clutch your pearls! He used to talk about them all the time in interviews, before he did something to Maddox on the plane in 2016. Then he spent years only seeing his kids occasionally with a court-ordered monitor present, and his oldest sons want nothing to do with him. But, you know, the moral high ground! He never talks about his kids! Unless he?s dedicating an Oscar to them, or trying to ?hit? Angelina for? writing an essay for Time Magazine about International Women?s Day.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie reveals that two of her daughters have needed surgery in recent months | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Is Angelina Jolie still in England filming The Eternals? I know she was there last fall and into winter, and I have no idea how intensive the film shoot is or what kind of stunt work she needed to do. I ask because I have no idea where Angelina and her kids are at the moment. Either LA or London, you choose. Wherever they are, Angelina is camped out at the hospital because two of her daughters needed surgery. She wrote an essay for Time Magazine (she?s been a contributor for months now) in honor of International Women?s Day, and the point of her essay was not to spill some tea about her kids, but to note how odd it is that girls are expected to take care of each other. That?s the expectation.
I have spent the last two months in and out of surgeries with my eldest daughter, and days ago watched her younger sister go under the knife for a hip surgery. They know that I am writing this, because I respect their privacy and we discussed it together and they encouraged me to write. They understand that going through medical challenges and fighting to survive and heal is something to be proud of.
I have watched my daughters care for one another. My youngest daughter studied the nurses with her sister, and then assisted the next time. I saw how all my girls so easily stopped everything and put each other first, and felt the joy of being of service to those they love. I also watched them their face fears with a resolute bravery. We all know that moment when no one else can help us, and all we can do is close our eyes and breathe. When only we can take the next step or breath through the pain, so we steady ourselves and do it.
Their brothers were there for them, supportive and sweet. But on this International Women?s Day, writing from the hospital, I find myself focusing on my daughters for a moment, and all that I have learned from them and other young girls I have met around the world.
Someone said to me, when they saw my daughters caring for each other, that ?it comes naturally to girls.? I smiled, but then I thought of how often that notion is abused. The little girl is expected to take care of others. The woman she grows up to be will be expected to give, and care for, and sacrifice. Girls are often conditioned to think that they are good only when they serve others, and selfish or wrong if ever they focus on their own needs and desires.
Little girls? softness, their openness and instinct to nurture and help others, must be appreciated and not abused. We must do much more to protect them, in all societies: not only against the extreme ways girls? rights are often violated, but also the more subtle injustices and attitudes that so often go unnoticed or excused.
So my wish on this day is that we value girls. Care for them. And know that the stronger they grow, the healthier they will be and the more they will give back to their family and community. And my message to girls is, fight on, little ladies. Your care for each other will be a large part of your way forward. Hold your nerve. Know your rights. And never let anyone tell you that you are not precious and special and, above all, equal.
[From Time]
I agree with her sentiment about gender norms and how everyone expects women and girls to ?nurture? and be caretakers (physically and emotionally). But yeah, I?m also interested in whatever is happening with her daughters? So, Zahara is the oldest girl and she?s been having multiple surgeries? And Vivienne is the youngest, and she had hip surgery? Lord, are these girls crazy-athletic or something? If you told me that Shiloh needed surgery for some broken bones from skateboarding, I would say ?yep, makes perfect sense.? But Zahara and Viv? What?s happening??
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie's BBC program will focus on teaching kids to stop fake news | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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My aunt passed away a few years ago, but before she died, she was the kind of person who believed every single thing she heard on conservative radio, and she regularly regurgitated Fox News talking points almost verbatim. It was? difficult. Even when I tried to fact-check in real time when she was mid-rant about Obummer getting secret money from Ghaddafi (or something?), it was like her brain stopped, crashed, then rebooted and she just kept believing the same thing Fox News told her. My point is that there are a lot of people who could use a primer in how to read and watch and listen to ?news.? Angelina Jolie is just focusing on teaching those lessons to kids:
Angelina Jolie and the BBC want to give young viewers real tools to stop fake news, Jolie will executive produce ?BBC My World,? a program that explains the stories behind news and offers facts and information that helps kids over the age of 13 make up their own minds on pressing international issues. The series will tap the reporting of the BBC World Service and is a co-production with Jolie and Microsoft Education. The BBC will retain final editorial approval of content in the series.
?As a parent I am happy to be able to give my support to a program that aims to help children learn more about the lives of other young people around the world, and connect to them to each other,? says Jolie in a prepared statement. ?I hope it will help children find the information and tools they need to make a difference on the issues that matter to them, drawing on the BBC World Service?s network of thousands of journalists and multiple language services around the world.?
The weekly half-hour program will be broadcast via BBC World News, the organization?s most-watched channel. It will air each Sunday at 11:30 a.m. eastern, and its content will be shared with BBC?s 42 different language services. It will also be made available via a YouTube channel and the BBC iPlayer in the United Kingdom. Producers see the show as a tool to help young audiences, who are allowed to roam on many social-media outlets, but come across all kinds of news content aimed at adults, yet have less of a grasp about how to distinguish content by levels of quality.
[From Variety]
In my day yes, I?m old this was considered more of a lesson in government/civics starting in middle school and continuing through high school. There wasn?t one singular class on media-engagement and, like, media criticism or media ethics, but it was seen as more adjacent to discussions about history and politics and citizenship. But I like the idea of a stand-alone program, a tool for kids to get a better grasp of news and fake news and all of that. And yes, there should be something like that for adults too, because the old folks watching Fox News are not okay.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red and Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie took her four youngest kids to Ethiopia for the New Year | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Before Christmas, there were several stories in various outlets about how Brad Pitt was going to spend his birthday and Christmas with three of his six children. Zahara is now 14 years old, and so it seems like she?s old enough to decide her custody/visitation for herself. And Zahara has opted out of spending time with Brad Pitt, just like Maddox and Pax have opted out. Now Brad only gets to see the three youngest Jolie-Pitt kids, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox. My guess is that even though Angelina has been filming The Eternals in England for several months, she still had to come ?home? to LA so that she could fulfill the visitation requirements and all of that. And maybe she wanted to spend Christmas in LA. But she definitely didn?t want to spend New Year?s Eve in LA. Days after Christmas, Angelina took her four youngest kids to Ethiopia. I guess Brad didn?t get to see them after Christmas huh? Incidentally, there are some exclusive pics of Brad leaving Puerto Vallarta (a vacation spot in Mexico) on NYE, so it looks like he jetted out of LA after Christmas too. As for Angelina?s Ethiopia trip, she and Shiloh and Zahara met Ethiopia?s president:
Angelina Jolie is returning to a place close to her heart. The actress, 44, visited Ethiopia with four of her kids ? Shiloh, 13, and Zahara, 14, who was born in the African country, as well as 11-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. The family will stay in the region for New Year?s Eve.
While there, Jolie brought Shiloh and Zahara to meet with Sahle-Work Zewde, the president of Ethiopia and the first woman to hold the office. It was a special treat for Zahara, who turns 15 on Jan. 8. Their talks covered education, sanitary pad solutions to help girls continue their schooling (girls often stay home from class while menstruating due to lack of supplies), and Ethiopian culture and history. The group also discussed Jolie?s ongoing efforts to treat drug-resistant tuberculosis.
The actress and activist has funded efforts for over a decade through the Zahara Program, named after her daughter. The Jolie Pitt Foundation partnered with the Global Health Committee and the Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health in 2009 to create an initiative to treat drug-resistant TB. Their work has led to continuing success in treating people with TB in the region.
[From People]
That?s cool that she brought the younger kids to Ethiopia and that Shiloh and Zahara got to meet the president. As you can see in the photos below, Zahara seemed to get dressed up in an appropriate ensemble, while? Shiloh wore jeans and a windbreaker? I?m all for Let Shiloh Be Shiloh, but no Angelina should have asked Shiloh to put on a better outfit. Shi looks like she?s about to hang out at the skate park. That?s my only complaint! The rest of this is very cool.
#Ethiopia Renowned Actress, Film maker and Humanitarian Angelina Jolie had an audience with President @SahleWorkZewde. https://t.co/t750wlNCHo ''Angelina said she was in Ethiopia to discuss refugees and to explore the opportunities to work on women and children.'' pic.twitter.com/O410aXx1Ld
Addis Standard (@addisstandard) December 31, 2019
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| | Angelina Jolie met a young British actor who has her face tattooed on his arm | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Today in WHAT IS MY LIFE, the beautiful Angelina Jolie came to Dear Evan Hansen. I showed her my tattoo of her, done by the wonderful @courtneylloydtattoos and she loved it, SIGNED IT, kissed me on the cheek and said she would be back to see my Evan show. I will never recover from this. Thanks to @nicoleraquel_d @lucy_anderson.1, @howveryhannah & @courtneyjstapes for the pics and for making me speak to her ??? #DearEvanHansen #AngelinaJolie
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| | Angelina Jolie suddenly switched agencies, from UTA to the William Morris Agency | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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For many, many years, Angelina Jolie did not have an agent or a publicist. She had a manager and a lawyer and that was pretty much it for her ?team.? She was sent scripts and she would read them and decide if she wanted to do them. There was no agent in her ear, telling her which projects to pass on or which deals to approve. When Angelina first got with Brad Pitt, I think he convinced her to join his agency, CAA, and she did it just to try something new, I guess. But she left after a few months. I personally think that she was turned off by CAA?s management style, plus Jennifer Aniston was (at the time) CAA?s golden girl. More years passed and Angelina was still just functioning without an agent. Then in 2011, she went to UTA for representation as a director, then in 2013, she had UTA represent her as an actress too. But now that?s over. She?s changing agencies. Interesting
Angelina Jolie has signed with WME after spending most of the past decade with UTA. Jolie is coming off the Disney sequel ?Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,? which is close to grossing $500 million worldwide. In recent years, the woman who is one of the world?s most recognizable movie stars has focused more on directing and producing than acting. As of late that has changed as Jolie has lined up a number of prominent acting jobs including the lead role in Marvel?s ?Eternals,? set for release next year.
Jolie came to UTA as a director client in 2011 while being repped by IFA for acting. As of 2013, she was repped on all fronts by UTA. Before coming to UTA, she had been without agency representation after parting ways with CAA in 2006. During her time with UTA, the agency negotiated Jolie?s first deal to direct a studio picture with 2014?s ?Unbroken,? and to direct Netflix?s ?First They Killed My Father,? which she also co-wrote. She executive produced the 2017 Oscar-nominated animated film ?The Breadwinner.? She also has a starring voice role and produced the upcoming Disney animated feature ?The One and Only Ivan.?
[From Variety]
Hear me out: this reminds me a little bit about how Angelina switched divorce lawyers in the middle of her (still not over) divorce. Angelina phased out Laura Wasser and phased in Samantha DeJean? and suddenly all of the leaks from her divorce stopped on a dime and Brad Pitt?s team stopped smearing Jolie 24-7. Could it be that Angelina suddenly needed a different kind of agency in what could be a new phase of her career? She?s made it clear that more than three years after she left Brad, she?s just now starting to feel okay and like she?s ready to really WORK. Perhaps she needs a ?war-time consigliere? for her career now too. All signs point to the idea that Angelina is going to be making some big moves in the coming months and years. Plus, she?s still extra-cozy with Disney and Marvel. We?ll see.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie: We don't have to be 'a perfect person' to be a good mother | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie is very close to her children. They all seem to adore their mom. Considering all but the twins (Vivienne and Knox) are teenagers, that?s quite a feat. Teenagers are angsty and moody by nature. Maybe the Jolie-Pitt kids are angsty and authority-defying too, but in public, they just seem like happy, well-adjusted kids who have a great relationship with their mom. Whatever happened on that plane in 2016 was a wake-up call and Angelina got them therapy and she took time off work to make sure everyone was okay. Maleficent: Mistress of Evil covers the subjects of motherhood, growing up and leaving the nest. So of course Angelina got some questions about how she is handling motherhood these days. Some quotes:
Raising her children well: ?I feel I like being an artist [is important] of course, but I?d like the other aspects of my work to take over my life a little bit more in the years ahead. Really I just want to raise my children well, they?re all at those very special ages where you don?t want to miss a moment and just get it right before they?re out in the world on their own and having to face it. You hope you get all the good stuff in, so that?s my main focus. But I have some other crazy ideas for future things, let?s see what happens.?
What she learned from Maleficent: ?That [parenthood is] not easy, that even Maleficent can have trouble and worry whether she?s a good enough mum. I think what it means to be a mum and I think in her mind she has this idea, I did before I had kids, that to be a perfect mother we have to be a perfect person. that?s not true. You just have to do your best and be willing to put your child before you, and I think she has that. So she loves being a mum, I love being a mum.
[From Marie Claire UK & The Daily Mail]
?I think in her mind she has this idea, I did before I had kids, that to be a perfect mother we have to be a perfect person. that?s not true.? This is true. Not that I know from experience I?m not a mother but from what I?ve seen, there is never a perfect mother, because there is no perfect person. Everybody is just making it up and trying to figure it out as they go along. It?s so weird to think about Jolie raising her kids in LA, the same city where hyper-competitive mothering led to federal indictments, right? Angelina would never, because she doesn?t need to compete through her children, nor does she have any desire to have them leave the nest completely unprepared. The Jolie-Pitt children turning out to be well-adjusted, nice kids wasn?t what was predicted for this brood.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Backgrid.
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| | Angelina Jolie's message to girls: 'Find their own power, but respect & learn from men' | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Angelina Jolie and Disney are on the same page for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil. Disney seems to love this collaboration because Angelina goes all-in to sell the movies, and because she can talk about feminism while still staying on Disney-message. Disney?s feminism is definitely on the lighter, more consumer-driven side. I mean, little kids still want to be princesses, but maybe they also want to have horns and wings and wear all-black. Disney is giving them that choice = feminism. I have a point here! The point is that I love how Angelina and Elle Fanning put their own spin on Disney?s feminist-lite talking points:
Angelina Jolie has championed the role men can play in shaping the personalities of young girls. The actress, who stars in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, also said female characters in films should not have to be portrayed as physically tough in order to be considered strong.
I think that, so often, when a storys told which says this is a strong woman, she has to beat the man, or she has to be like the man, or she has to somehow not need the man, Jolie told journalists at the films launch.
Referring to her own character in the film and Princess Aurora, played by Elle Fanning, Jolie said: We both very much need and love and learn from the men. And so I think thats also an important message for young girls, to find their own power, but to respect and learn from the men around them. We have strong women, but the character that is wrong in the film and has to be taken out is also a woman. We show very diverse types of women between our characters, but also we have extraordinary men in the film, and I really want to press that point.
Fanning, who reprises her role of Princess Aurora in the film, echoed Jolies comments and said her characters strength is not necessarily physical, unlike many princesses in childrens films.
Auroras strength is her kindness, and she stays very true to herself, which is something I wanted to keep in the film. She is soft and feminine and wants to be a wife and have babies, and thats a beautiful, strong thing that isnt portrayed a lot on screen. A lot of the princesses are like were gonna make her a strong princess! And make her tough, so were gonna make her fight! And its like, is that what being a strong woman means? Like, we just have to have a sword and have armour on and go fight? Aurora can do that in a different way, in a Pink dress, and its beautiful that she keeps her softness and vulnerabilities.
[From BBC]
?She is soft and feminine and wants to be a wife and have babies, and thats a beautiful, strong thing that isnt portrayed a lot on screen.? Can we argue about this? Almost every romance and rom-com is based on the idea that yes, every woman wants a husband, a wedding and babies. Every magazine and every message from the media is that women want those things too. It?s not groundbreaking to portray a young woman wanting those things. It?s not feminist or anti-feminist either (it?s just a neutral choice). That quote is from Elle and I think she?s just trying to defend her character. But this quote from Angelina was just too much as well: ?Thats also an important message for young girls, to find their own power, but to respect and learn from the men around them?? Yeah but when are boys going to get the message to respect and learn from the women around them. Ugh.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Angelina Jolie: 'I was feeling pretty broken' two years after leaving Brad Pitt | | Added 5 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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As everyone keeps saying, Angelina Jolie is back to feeling good about life and feeling good about herself. It took three years, basically. Angelina has been promoting Maleficent: Mistress of Evil all over the world for weeks, and she?s been making a lot of public comments as she does press for the film. Her quotes, taken together, kind of reveal that Angelina spent 2014-2016 in a bad place. Those were her final years with Brad Pitt, and she was deeply unhappy. In the wake of their split, Jolie says she was not feeling strong, especially not strong enough to play Maleficent again:
Angelina Jolie had to work to find the strength to play Maleficent again in the upcoming sequel. Jolie put the horns back on last summer to shoot Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which comes out this Friday, marking her first acting role in four years.
?It was a tough time,? Jolie tells PEOPLE of returning to the character in this week?s issue. ?I?d been coming off a few years of difficulty, and I was not feeling very strong. In fact, I was feeling pretty broken. It took me a moment to feel the strength of [Maleficent] again.?
Jolie, 44, shares six children with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, 55: daughters Zahara, 14, Shiloh, 13, and Vivienne, 11, and sons Maddox, 18, Pax, 15, and Knox, 11. But while her six kids hung around in London with their mom during most of the shoot, Jolie couldn?t get them to appear on screen this time. Even Vivienne, Jolie?s youngest daughter who appeared as a young Aurora in the 2014 original, wasn?t into it.
?I tried,? Jolie says. ?Viv still can?t believe I made her a princess. None of my kids want to be actors. [They?re into] business, humanitarian affairs, things like that. Nobody was interested!?
[From People]
?I was not feeling very strong. In fact, I was feeling pretty broken.? Two years after the Jolie-Pitt split, she still felt broken. Keep in mind that during pre-production and production on Mistress of Evil, Brad and his team continued to smear Angelina because she was? taking care of the kids in London. Anyway, I love that her kids couldn?t care less about being in the movie with her. Vivienne was so cute as Toddler Aurora in the first film! And it made me laugh because Angelina sounded like such a stage parent when she talked about trying to get Vivienne to do ?act? as Aurora. I wish at least one of the kids wanted to be in the second movie!
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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