A few weeks ago, when she arrived for the New York Film Festival premiere of "Changeling", the new Clint Eastwood drama in which she stars, she placed along her partner of three years, Brad Pitt, and their son, Maddox, 7, and Pax, 4, daughters Zahara, 3, and Shiloh, 2 and 3 months twins Knox and Vivienne. The eight of them had flown from Germany, where the family settled while Pitt shoots Quentin Tarantino of the Second World War, an adventure "Bastards unglamorous."
"We are all a little jet-lagged," Angelina Jolie says, does not jet-lagged in the least as it has settled for a brief stay at the Waldorf-Astoria, before passing the clan of New Orleans. Carrying a lot of baggage is something Jolie seems greet with serenity - as a mother. As an actress, she knows that this poses a potential problem.
At 33, she occupies a rare spot in the Hollywood high-level female stars. Wherever she goes, whatever she can not escape its multiple identities. The seriousness of the actress who won an Oscar in 1999's "Girl, Interrupted" and much success to play Mariane Pearl, widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, last year's "Mighty Heart" is also dominating the action-ish dynamo that can open slam-bang Guy films, this summer as "Wanted". There is also a humanitarian activist who served as goodwill ambassador of the United Nations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. And this is not its role to half of Brangelina, an unincorporated business that is the celebrity of the magazine industry best solution to survive the economic crisis.
Angelina Jolie, who is disarmingly easy to live, said she supports most ignore the alternate plan of life as a tabloid sensation. She lives in a bit of a bubble when it comes to the perception of me, which I am sure that this is a very good thing, "she says with a laugh," because I am sure that this is not always pleasant. "
If Angelina Jolie is irritating attention, it is too intelligent to complain about it. But she admits that the wealth of information available about it could create an against-enigma. His growing reputation could endanger its ability to do the very job that made her famous in the first place - to make it public believe someone else. In short, to disappear.
"Can I?" she asked. "I certainly hope so. I would not put myself forward to make a film like "Changeling" if I thought I could not draw people into a story because of all the other ways that people see me. "
In "Changeling" Angelina Jolie plays Christine Collins, a supervisor standard and single mother in 1928, Los Angeles, including 9 years, his son is kidnapped. (The story has its roots in a series of gruesome killings known as Wineville Chicken Coop murders.) Five months after the disappearance of children, the LAPD's hands a boy insists that is his son, and department officials attempt to destroy her life when she says they are bad. The role, in which Jolie must embody the agony of not knowing if her only child was murdered, his place in some respects, ripping the territory of his latest drama, "A Mighty Heart".
When Angelina Jolie first read the "Changeling" script ", I said, this is absolutely great, and I do not want to ever do so," she recalled. "I do not want to put on my conscience abducted children. But I could not forget about it. I thought Brad and my friends history. "
"Changeling" came at a particularly painful for Jolie. In January 2007, her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer to 56. "My mother, she was very, very soft, woman," she said. "It is difficult for her to yell or even curse. But when it comes to fighting for her children, she found a strength, it has not always know she had. And there is a part of Christine I am connected to it. I kept pictures of my mother in the small change "that bears his character in the film.
Angelina Jolie, who said she does not see his work, has not seen "Wanted". The film has increased by more than $ 300 million worldwide. "I'm glad it developed," she says with a smile.
She, however, seen "Changeling". "Clint asked me, '" she says. "What are you going to do, say no to Clint?" Except for a brief years, hello backstage at CNN "Larry King Live," Jolie said she had never met until Eastwood "Changeling". But she knew that her reputation to establish a tight ship for finishing and even complex scenes in a few takes.
"I can ride sometimes without even saying a word," said Eastwood. "I will just point to the cameraman, and it runs on it, and we go. But she understood what things are like and it was ready. "
