Angelina Jolie answers kid questions at Kung Fu Panda release
November 9, 2008 by Sherry
We may not get to see the Jolie-Pitt kids very often these days, but at least we can hear about them!
While Angelina Jolie was busy looking absolutely radiant at the Kung Fu Panda DVD release in Los Angeles today, she was also happy to answer some questions reporters had about her growing family. People.com reports that Angelina mentioned the four-month-old twins are getting “very smiley”. She said that Knox and Vivienne are at the age where some of their specific personality is starting to show more than a newborn’s does.
I think my favorite part of the article was when Angelina said her kids have Tigress dolls because they love Kung Fu Panda so much and are so proud. Who wouldn’t be? Angie’s character was pretty badass!
At the release event, Jeffrey Katzenberg of DreamWorks also donated $1 million to Conservation International, which is an organization that works to save and protect pandas and their habitats. In regards to that, Angelina said, “We are so privileged in everything we get to do in this business, and the amount of money this film has made. To be able to share that and do some good always feels good.”
No matter what project she’s involved in, it seems that good deeds happen everywhere Angelina Jolie goes!
OOH I want a Tigress doll!!
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Wow the twins are 4 months! Only 2 months away until Brad and Angie can file for adoption
i want to have a tigress doll too.
I don’t remember if it was Angela or someone else who mentioned the Times’ interview of Angelina – here’s the URL and excerpts. I prefer the British & other European legit press to the U.S. press, they seem to be more objective – neither gotcha ‘journalism’ nor puffery.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5088727.ece
From The Sunday Times, November 9, 2008
The other side of Angelina Jolie
We know that she’s Brad’s other half, a devoted mother of six, with a dark and driven side. But Angelina Jolie is also willing to put her life on the line, as our exclusive photographs of her in Afghanistan show.
She’s wearing no jewellery and minimal make-up, and has just climbed off a transatlantic flight from Germany (albeit by private jet); yet she shows not a trace of the supposed ailments that tabloid investigators claim to have diagnosed over the past few months: depression, anorexia, romantic strife. Within a week of our meeting she is off again to spend two days in Afghanistan for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). She’s been a goodwill ambassador for the organisation since 2001, visiting more than 20 countries in that time, from Sierra Leone and Kosovo to Costa Rica and Iraq. And, unlike others, she goes where real bullets fly. While there, three aid workers will be murdered by hit-and-run assassins.
The real problem, of course, is that Jolie has become so famous for being Jolie that her work as a serious actress is in danger of being undermined by the celebrity circus. There was a hint of this in the reaction to A Mighty Heart, in which she played Mariane Pearl, the pregnant wife of a US journalist who was kidnapped and beheaded by terrorists in Pakistan.
The high-profile role won her critical praise and a couple of prizes, but no Oscar nomination and a tepid response at the American box office, where, to be fair, no terrorist-related films have made much of an impact.
There are already signs that her work in Changeling might fall foul of the Brangelina effect. Again, she is playing a real-life woman stricken by loss, and some American critics have wondered whether after A Mighty Heart, that might seem too familiar to Academy voters. They may also consider that it’s no longer enough of a stretch for Jolie to be playing an anguished mother. Could an Oscar snub lie in store?
Jolie delivers a restrained and dignified performance that seems to justify Eastwood’s gamble of choosing so famous a face for his Oscar entry this year. “I do feel responsibility to the production,” she says. “It’s important that I did my job well.” But she doesn’t seem to worry too much about trophies: she confesses she has lost her original Oscar.
“I gave it to my mother and she’s passed away. I don’t know where it is,” she adds.
Pitt turns out to be a keen amateur photographer, so W commissioned him to shoot his girlfriend in candid poses at home. “It became this one-week project in our house,” Jolie says. The way she tells it, matters quickly got out of hand, and some of the photographs proved far too sexual to be released on an unsuspecting American audience. “Yeah, we thought about it, we’d look at the pictures as art and say this is a really interesting photograph, but then we’d know better and we’d think about how it was going to be received. So we made it a little more tame than it was originally.”
Jolie’s voice softened and for a moment she sounded almost wistful as she basked in a happy memory. It was hard after that to be cynical about Brangelina’s romantic prospects, but a couple of awkward questions remained. One day the couple’s children will be old enough to check out their parents’ lives on their own. Is Jolie worried that Google’s infinite internet memory will lead her kids to the long list of her past indiscretions, from the drug-taking and self-mutilation to the kinky sex? What will they make of the speculation about Jolie’s waistline and whether she resorted to plastic surgery to rid herself of post-partum flab?
How will she handle their questions? Jolie doesn’t sound too worried. “I think it’s going to be that they’ll understand they can talk to me about everything, and that by the time they get to be teenagers we’ll have formed a sufficient bond,” she says. “We tell them everything, we’re honest with them. My mother was that way with me.”
In the Brangelina household “the word ‘adoption’ is a good word”, Jolie adds. “We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, ‘No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman’s belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman’.”
It would be lovely to think that Brad and Angie can defy Hollywood’s dismal record of celebrity-marriage failure, and emulate another star couple — Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, who were married for 50 years before Newman’s death in September.
However their family life develops, Jolie continues to insist she’s not the kind of woman to dwell on her mistakes. “I’m one of those people who believes you just can’t regret things in life. You have to feel confident that it was all part of the journey.” She rises gracefully from the sofa, bringing the interview to a close.
In a few hours she’ll be on the plane to Afghanistan. “I’ve wanted to visit Afghanistan for many years. I’d already seen Afghan refugees in Pakistan and heard their stories of home. Over five million Afghans have returned in the last six years since the fall of the Taliban. So I wanted to see for myself how they were doing.
“Behind the labels — refugees, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers — are people with the same hopes, fears, sorrow and happiness as anyone. Their life experiences are often deeply tragic but also uplifting. To survive what many Afghan families have experienced over three decades is testimony to the resilience of the human spirit. This shines through in their generosity, humour, and quiet determination to offer their children a better future.”
When she returns, the photographs are evidence that Jolie has been deeply moved. In one she is clearly in tears as she listens to an old man sob out his story. “It is so rare to see a grown man break down and cry — when a man does, you feel how devastating the situation is. He was distraught that he could not do anything to help his family,” she explains later.
But what of Jolie? Do an old man’s tears prompt her to question herself?
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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5088727.ece
From The Sunday Times, November 9, 2008
The other side of Angelina Jolie
We know that she’s Brad’s other half, a devoted mother of six, with a dark and driven side. But Angelina Jolie is also willing to put her life on the line, as our exclusive photographs of her in Afghanistan show.
OMG! She looks really beautiful in these pictures. That black mini-dress suits her very well. It was nice to read about the twins. It´s hard to believe that they´re already 4 months old. It would be lovely to see new photos of them but I understand that Brad and Angie want to protect them from the public eye. They must look absolutely adorable when they smile. Viv sure has her mum´s smile and Knox has his dad´s smile. Hopefully we´ll soon see new photos of the whole family.
Angelina said : “We are so privileged in everything we get to do in this business, and the amount of money this film has made. To be able to share that and do some good always feels good.” I think one of the secret of happiness is the giving. So very happy that she found that secret.
Thanks Ligaya, that is a lovely write up. Fair and honest. Also, wanted to say how happy I am that you are going to NOLA in January. That will be such a nice trip for you and your hubby. Irma and the others are right, you are a number 1 fan. It appears that you are very passionate about many things. Also, there is a survey on People today, which celeb. children would we want to baby sit. I voted for Shiloh and Zee and when I went back in to cast another vote for Madd and Pax it would not allow me. Now I know how right you are, the percentage for the boys was some low number like 3. I hope that now that we are finally going to have a black president all of our country will change their thinking. Kind of doubt it, I myself was raised by two parents that were racist. I am so happy that I never saw color. I am white and when I married a Puerto Rican my family was not happy. Took many years for my Dad to change his thinking about my husband. My Mother never changed her thinking, although I must say she was polite. There is so much going wrong right now and if we could just learn to live and let live this would be a better world.
thanks for that article Ligaya, it’s really nice and honest.
To Ligaya, have you ever met either Brad or Angie in person, would’nt it be nice. You are always in their corner. You have such good information about them, more power to you.
Sherry, have you met them. This site sometime have me rolling on the floor with laughter when
I have the time to read. Angie and Brad is sweet, good people,their reward is waiting. At people. com Brad co-star talk about how excited Brad was for her to meet Angie that is so beautiful. He love to show her off.
Hee – Irma, Le, Mary Ann, Christy:
As big a fan of Angelina & Brad as I am, hubby and I are even bigger peace & justice activists, and our commitment to helping New Orleans and the Katrina survivors recover stems from that first. We made sizeable (for us) contributions for emergency hurricane relief in 2005 – before Project Make It Right – for New Orleans and Haiti, in even worse shape than NOLA. For us, the personal is political, especially since we don’t have the funds to keep them separate , so we take our vacations and do our xmas shopping there.
I’m just one of Angie and Brad’s millions of #1 fans. Someone at imdb once hurled what they thought was an epithet at me, and I answered back: BRANGELOONIE / BRANGELOONEY (take your pick) AND PROUD OF IT! I think my kind of fandom comes from a combination of the Filipino national trait of passion, the Asian trait of service to the community, training and aptitude. I tend to be passionate about everything and anything (vampires – decades before Twilight and Anne Rice, rubber duckies, office supplies, art, music). I have so many passions, I rotate them. From the 1970s-1990s, peace & justice politics was first until our age and health sidelined us. Then it was Star Wars, then Angelina, now the Jolie-Pitts. Travel is always a passion. So is learning something new.
Pinays, please help me out and correct me if I’m wrong. There are exceptions, but generally Filipinos aren’t known to be cold, reserved, restrained, minimalist and impassive introverts. We’re enthusiastic, expressive exhuberant extroverts, more-is-better, unafraid of going-over-the-top bright-florals-wearing karaoke-singing people! We put our heart and soul into everything we do. ‘Di ba?
My education in Catholic elementary schools and public schools in advanced/accelerated college prep tracks trained me in encyclopedic research which I found I had an aptitude for and loved.
I get a real kick out of sharing something new/different with others – it’s a real pleasure. So that’s where the Asian trait of service to others/the community comes in. My parents stressed this, and so did the nuns in school. Catholics stressed this – Filipinos did, Latinos too, and I think other Asian/Pacific and African Catholics. I’m not familiar with Irish, Italian, French and Spanish Catholics. Our politics fits right in with this.
I start our with a few sources (for Ryan too, not just Angelina), which lead me to more sources sometimes: Yahoo/Google alerts, yahoo news, sfchron/latimes, Variety/the Hollywood Reporter/indiewire, boxoffice.mojo/guru/prophets; occasionally – associated blogs, imdb, rottentomatoes, oscarologists, huffinngton post, Deadline Hollywood Daily . . .
LAST, but really not least, I can only be the kind of fan I am because I have no kids in the house, I have no grandkids, my mom is still independent and relatively healthy, I’m retired, and hubby has a great job which allows me to indulge my hobby. I’m very lucky and grateful for that and all my other blessings. And this isn’t even the most important part of my life.
“Pinays, please help me out and correct me if I’m wrong. There are exceptions, but generally Filipinos aren’t known to be cold, reserved, restrained, minimalist and impassive introverts. We’re enthusiastic, expressive exhuberant extroverts, more-is-better, unafraid of going-over-the-top bright-florals-wearing karaoke-singing people! We put our heart and soul into everything we do. ‘Di ba?”
Ligaya, I do know more Filipinos that are extroverts than are introverts.
And while I am at it, while there are some instances when I disagree with your opinions, for the most part, I second them. I’m glad you are able to point us fans to other sites/stories/photos/info etc that we might otherwise miss. And Brangaloonies rule! He he he
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