It’s good to parcel out the Angelina Jolie. Maybe we can get a week’s worth of stories from Angelina’s ELLE cover interview. I covered the first excerpt and some photos yesterday – Angelina talking about her “misinterpreted” (I would say willfully misinterpreted) early 20s. The Hedi Slimane photos are so badass – ELLE released a few more, and I think I’m in love with the full-body shot of Angelina laughing. Anyway, as I said, ELLE has released more from the cover story. Here you go:
On what she used to think her life would be like…
“I never thought I’d have children, I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person,” Jolie says. “Having come from a broken home—you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.”On how her relationship with Pitt has evolved over the past eight years…
“You get together and you’re two individuals and you feel inspired by each other, you challenge each other, you complement each other, drive each other beautifully crazy. After all these years, we have history—and when you have history with somebody, you’re friends in such a very real, deep way that there’s such a comfort, and an ease, and a deep love that comes from having been through quite a lot together.”On casting her daughter Vivienne in Maleficent…
For young Aurora, they needed a child who wouldn’t be fazed by the Mistress of All Evil hissing “I don’t like children” in her face. “And my little Vivienne—we call her my shadow, because there’s nothing I can do to shake her. I can be tired, I can be grumpy, I can be in a terrible mood, and she doesn’t care. It’s ‘Mommy, Mommy,’ and she’ll cling to me,” Jolie says. “We knew that she would still do that thing, she’d still smile at me and insist that I pick her up. So we couldn’t really cast anybody else.”How she and Pitt feel about the kids getting into show business…
Pax and nine-year-old Zahara (or ZZ, as Jolie calls her) also appear in the film, in cameos in the christening/cussing scene. (No Shiloh, however. “I asked Shiloh about being Aurora, and she laughed in my face,” Jolie says, with evident pride. “She said she’d be a horned creature.”) But don’t expect a repeat engagement. “Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn’t keep them from sets and the fun of making movies, but we wouldn’t [glorify it either]—we wouldn’t make it a good thing or a bad thing. But I would really prefer they do something else,” she says. Anyway, “after two days of it, Brad and I were so stressed we never wanted to do it again.”
[From ELLE]
This is a full meal of Brangeloonie revelations, isn’t it? First, the p0rn: she and Brad are in love, it’s a fairy tale (although she would never have looked for it), they drive each other crazy, but their love is deep, profound and a love with a shared history. Unf.
Then all of the stuff with the kids… I’m dying!! Zahara is “ZZ”? Vivienne is My Shadow? Adorable. And Shiloh would never want to be a princess, she would only want to play a horned creature. So much of Shiloh’s ‘tude reminds me of Angelina’s youth too. I think Shiloh is going to have some difficult years (the teens and early 20s), but she’ll come out of it very strong, like Angie. And just the idea of Viv clinging to her mom… Brangeloonie Heaven!
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