It’s consistently funny to me that Angelina Jolie refuses to sit down for interviews with Matt Lauer. She was always close to Ann Curry, and after Lauer pushed Curry out of the morning anchor position, Angelina has never sat down on the couch with Lauer. Maybe she never liked him? I have no idea. But Unbroken was released by Universal, so it’s corporate synergy for the Today Show and NBC to promote the film, so Angelina once again managed to find a way to avoid Lauer altogether. First she did an NBC special with Tom Brokaw, and then this week she sat down for her first TV interview since contracting chicken pox. Who did the interview? Why, Al Roker, of course.
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“I would love to think of myself of the classic mom at home…” Interesting. She’s always said she’s a terrible cook and I tend to believe her. She’s not the mom in the kitchen, baking cookies. She’s the mom ordering Chinese food or pizzas or whatever. If you watch the interview to the end, Al Roker says that he did ask Angelina about the Sony Hack emails and she didn’t want to say anything on the record. So… Angelina gets to say “no comment” on camera (and they edit it out) and Amy Adams gets kicked off the program for the same thing? Interesting.
A few more Jolie stories…Angelina spoke to the Los Angeles Times about the decision to not include Louis Zamperini’s born-again conversion in the film – go here to read. What she says makes sense, and I agree, the logical conclusion to the film is when (spoiler?) Louis comes home from the war. Angelina also spoke to The Daily Mirror this week and she ended up talking about what it’s like to finally be married to Brad:
“What was lovely about it was that we didn’t feel there was something missing or we needed to get married. We felt so complete, and the commitment to children is one that you cannot walk away from, so we already had that commitment. It was really that we wanted to re-commit and commit in a deeper way, and we wanted to celebrate the union with our children. And it does feel different when you say, ‘my husband’ or ‘my wife’. It warms you in a different way and you look at that person a little differently. As soon as it was all over, we all just changed clothes and hung out. It was just a very happy time. It wasn’t this monumental change – we were just very happy and sure, and it’s quite an extraordinary feeling to be so sure. It gives you peace.”
What’s interesting to me is that in the scope of celebrity/gossip stories of 2014, the Jolie-Pitt wedding was pretty boring. I mean, there were big stories about the wedding (the out-of-nowhere announcement, the wedding photos), but if you ask me what the biggest celebrity wedding of the year was, I would have to say George Clooney and Amal. That wedding was so thirsty, it was crazy.
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