ANGELINA JOLIE IS ENJOYING ‘CHAOS’ OF A FULL HOUSE DURING CORONAVIRUS QUARANTINE
Hollywood star Angelina Jolie is perfectly happy in her busy home amid the coronavirus lockdown. According to Fox News, the 45year-old actor recently spoke with E! News about spending extra time at home with her six children. “You know, I’ve never been one who valued relaxation. I like chaos,” said the actor.
Jolie is mother to 19-yearold Maddox, 16-year-old Pax, 15-year-old Zahara, 14-yearold Shiloh, 12-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, all of whom she shares with her ex and Hollywood star Brad Pitt. As an actor, producer and humanitarian, Jolie is quite the busy person and has had a number of important meetings from home, but it’s not surprising to her when she’s faced with an interruption.
She confessed, “I’ve been on high-level meetings where there are dogs and balls and kids and things. You kind of just enjoy being human with everybody else and laughing through it.”
She said that she tries to “make schedules at home” in order to provide “a bit of structure,” but one of her kids has a knack for organisation. “My daughter Zahara is better at organising things than I am,” Jolie said.
As would be fitting for a star of the screen, Jolie is keeping her kids entertained with movie nights. “Well, we’re all there. So, all six kids, my oldest son’s home from Korea. Lots of popcorn and just like really every family, we’re just pajamas, robes, snacks,” said Jolie.
Actor Sanjay Kapoor is enjoying the current phase in his career, as plenty of good work is available now with OTT platforms taking centre stage. After garnering praise for Lust Stories, he already has a slew of web projects in hand. He says things are more professional today as compared to the time when he had started off in showbiz.
“What a 25-minute short film (Lust Stories) did for me, a twoand-a-half hour blockbuster didn’t! Things have become more professional, and the only way to survive is if you have a bound script. Earlier, if the shooting was supposed to start at nine in the morning, it would start at 12.30pm. Now, be it a digital film or anything, the material output is per day. In my days of Raja, Prem (both 1995), whatever we did in a day and a half, today, it’s done in a day, with better quality and professionalism. That’s the best change,” says the actor.
What’s also new is the preparation every actor does before shooting. Kapoor, 54, says, “We do workshops now. For my next show, which is with a major streaming platform, we had fitting tests, and the cast met each other. It wasn’t like landing up on sets on the first day and saying, ‘Who is this person?’.”
He goes on to add, “Actors have become great. Whether it’s me at this stage, or whether a person just starting out, or even the biggest star of the industry, everyone is doing a web show. And also, while you are doing a project, your concentration is on that. Web shows take away 70-80 days.”