I am very warm and gentle with my children: Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie said that she makes sure to always be very warm when it comes to her kids. This is something that she has learnt from her late mother
Actress Angelina Jolie said that she makes sure to always be very warm and gentle when it comes to her kids. She added that this is something that she has learnt from her late mother Marcheline Bertrand, reports femalefirst.co.uk. In an interview with Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald newspaper, she said: “My mother was very gentle. I can be many things in my work and in my life, but I am very warm and gentle with my children. That kindness and warmth is a foundation that’s unbelievably important.” She added that she hopes she has made her children comfortable. “I hope that I’ve been able to be that (for my own children), that I’m that warm, safe place. Because — and it’s maybe a funny thing to say - but considering what my different jobs are, or what people think they know of you, or what you feel you have to be in the world, in truth none of those things are what you really are. Who you are to your children is everything.” The actress shares Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14 and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12, with ex-husband Brad Pit.
Jolie, whose priorities have centered on filmmaking, international work and family, hasn’t starred in a live-action film in six years. Over the last decade, her only leading performances have been two “Maleficent” movies and “By the Sea,” which she directed and starred in alongside then-husband Brad Pit. But Sheridan’s timing was right. Jolie, going through a painful and protracted divorce, was more interested in a quicker, simpler role on set. And the part of a
Montanan smoke jumper haunted by trauma and guilt, was potentially cathartic.
“We all have times in our lives where we are broken. And we grieve and we’re not sure we have anything let in us,” Jolie said in an interview by Zoom from Los Angeles. “I identified more with a part of her that didn’t feel she could do a lot, and hadn’t done this in a long time. To be in this situation and have a director that is both sensitive and aware of the human experience, to go there and to feel it, but also to push you to find your strength and move forward.” “It was really what I needed at that time,” says Jolie.
“Those Who Wish Me Dead,” which will on May 14 open in theatres and on HBO Max, is an anomaly for other reasons, too. It’s a star-led genre film not based on well-known intellectual property made by a major studio. (The film is based on Michael Koryta’s 2014 book.) Like Sheridan’s previous films —“To Hell or High Water,” “Sicario” (both of which he wrote) and “Wind River” (which Sheridan wrote and directed), it’s a tale of blood and justice across a vast and violent American landscape.
In “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” Jolie’s Hannah Faber encounters a 12-year-old boy in the wilderness who’s fleeing two assassins.