Post by Zhang Huang on Jun 10, 2007 19:10:34 GMT -5
Angelina: "I'm So Lucky To Have Brad"
Saturday, June 9, 2007 USA
HOLLYWOOD star Angelina Jolie has opened her heart for the first time about her love for Brad Pitt and their plans to adopt even more children.
In her most intimate interview, the actress laughs off rumours that she and Brad are on the rocks and reveals that his sensitive, tender nature has sealed their love.
“I am a very lucky woman,” she says. “I have a beautiful family and Brad is a supportive friend and a great father. And he is very romantic. We talk very deeply about how we feel.”
Angelina simply says of the man often voted the sexiest in the world: “We’re very similar. We support each other and back each other as parents. There is no divide.
“We never want the kids to see us divided. We make sure they know that Mommy and Daddy are together on everything.”
This caring side of 32-year-old Angelina as earth mother to a brood of kids will surprise fans more used to seeing her as a wild sex kitten.
IN the past, she’s boasted of flings with both sexes and of meeting “bed buddies” in hotel rooms for casual flings.
This image, and her short-lived marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, meant that few gave the couple dubbed “Brangelina” much chance, but their relationship has matured and they are now one of Hollywood’s golden couples.
Angelina reveals that Ocean’s 13 star Brad, 43, was her rock when her beloved mother Marcheline Bertrand, 56, died in January after a long battle with cancer.
“When my mother died Brad held her hand and helped me through all the stages of dealing with someone dying,” she says.
“After the funeral Brad brought everyone back to the house and asked questions about our mom. He focused on all the love and all the joy we were fortunate enough to have had. He is an extraordinary man.”
Last year, Brad told The Mirror about his dream of having enough children for a football team - and three months ago he and Angelina adopted three-year-old Pax from a Vietnamese orphanage.
Pax joins Maddox, five, and 18-month-old Zahara, whom Jolie adopted from orphanages in Cambodia and Ethiopia, and the couple’s one-year-old biological daughter Shiloh, who was born in Namibia.
Speaking for the first time about her new arrival, Jolie says Pax has fitted in well with the rest of the family, especially Maddox. But in his long journey from rural Vietnam to the riches of Tinseltown, he carries the emotional baggage of growing up in an impoverished orphanage.
“Pax is a great kid. When we first met him we thought he was really shy but after two days at home we discovered he is the loudest member of the family,” laughs Angelina.
“We don’t know if it’s because he has freedom he’s never had before, but he’s doing great.
“I’m really proud of Pax. It’s obvious he is used to stronger discipline, so it’s hard to change, but we are learning and he’s doing very well.”
Speaking exclusively on Thursday, she adds: “He is learning English and already speaks a little bit and the funniest thing was on my birthday on Monday to hear him saying ‘Happy Birthday, Mommy’ in the loudest, greatest, clearest voice. The kids were all screaming and singing. It was so much fun.”
Although the Pitt-Jolie children have slipped easily into the American way of life, Angelina is insistent they retain links with their heritage.
SO much so that she’s hired a Cambodian woman to visit the house to talk to Maddox and a Vietnamese woman to chat with Pax.
“They are both very focused in their language,” she says. “I love that my boys are growing up to love their countries and to love each other, too.
“Pax and Maddox have really connected because they’re closer in age and are brothers so they have moments when they bond together against everybody else in the family.
“They are a really tough team and then they have moments when they bug each other. It’s quite normal and it’s nice. It’s never quiet in our house.
“The four of them are a wild bunch. We’re never going to stop travelling. I think the greatest education I can give my kids, particularly as they are international children, is to keep them travelling.
“I think if they spend six months in Africa and come back to LA and then go to Asia for a few months we are showing them so much about the world and so much about understanding and tolerance and the beauty of other cultures.”
Angelina is chatting in a Los Angeles hotel room to promote her £5million role in new movie A Mighty Heart, out in the UK in September.
She plays Marianne Pearl, the widow of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and executed by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.
It tells the story of Marianne, who was pregnant at the time of the abduction, and her efforts to find him during the weeks following his disappearance and his eventual murder.
“She is an extraordinary woman and she handles everything with so much dignity and grace,” says Angelina. “I don’t know where she gets her strength from. She is so full of love.
“Because I had just been through a pregnancy, I was highly aware of how beautiful that time should be for the mother and father and the family.
“I clearly remember giving birth to my daughter and looking at Brad and feeling the love in the room and the hope for the future. So to understand what was taken away from Marianne was haunting.”
But when it came to the scene in which Marianne Pearl gives birth, the actress had to call on the British director Michael Winterbottom and other fathers on the crew to help her. “The birth scene was actually very funny because when I gave birth I had a Caesarean and I didn’t scream at all,” she says.
“Michael had to explain how a woman behaves in labour. It was funny that a bunch of men explained what to do.”
She chuckles as she adds: “I had to scream at the top of my lungs and all these men were screaming, showing me how to scream.”
Angelina’s charity work and her travels around the world as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador mean she is cutting back on her film work and A Mighty Heart could be the last cinema audiences see of her for a while, although she does not intend to abandon film work completely.
“I love being an actress,” she says. “I love telling a good story but I feel that at the end of the day when I die, what contribution will I have made?
“If I’ve entertained, that’s wonderful. But if I’ve been a part of saving a life or changing a law that can affect people and their children and their countries and their rights, then clearly that is the more significant thing to do with my life.”
On a personal front she is looking forward to having more children, although not quite yet.
“We have a big family now and we’re trying to make sure they are all well adjusted first,” she says. “We will have more children, but now we’re still getting everyone together.
“We love having children and there are some kids we want to help through school and other kids involved in our lives as well.
“In our home it is about making sure everyone has individual time, and right now all four of them have daily, very special individual time and we never want to have so many children we can’t do that.
“When they get older and if it starts to feel like we can fit more in, that’s how we’re going to gauge how many we have.”
Source : SoulieJolie
Saturday, June 9, 2007 USA
HOLLYWOOD star Angelina Jolie has opened her heart for the first time about her love for Brad Pitt and their plans to adopt even more children.
In her most intimate interview, the actress laughs off rumours that she and Brad are on the rocks and reveals that his sensitive, tender nature has sealed their love.
“I am a very lucky woman,” she says. “I have a beautiful family and Brad is a supportive friend and a great father. And he is very romantic. We talk very deeply about how we feel.”
Angelina simply says of the man often voted the sexiest in the world: “We’re very similar. We support each other and back each other as parents. There is no divide.
“We never want the kids to see us divided. We make sure they know that Mommy and Daddy are together on everything.”
This caring side of 32-year-old Angelina as earth mother to a brood of kids will surprise fans more used to seeing her as a wild sex kitten.
IN the past, she’s boasted of flings with both sexes and of meeting “bed buddies” in hotel rooms for casual flings.
This image, and her short-lived marriages to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, meant that few gave the couple dubbed “Brangelina” much chance, but their relationship has matured and they are now one of Hollywood’s golden couples.
Angelina reveals that Ocean’s 13 star Brad, 43, was her rock when her beloved mother Marcheline Bertrand, 56, died in January after a long battle with cancer.
“When my mother died Brad held her hand and helped me through all the stages of dealing with someone dying,” she says.
“After the funeral Brad brought everyone back to the house and asked questions about our mom. He focused on all the love and all the joy we were fortunate enough to have had. He is an extraordinary man.”
Last year, Brad told The Mirror about his dream of having enough children for a football team - and three months ago he and Angelina adopted three-year-old Pax from a Vietnamese orphanage.
Pax joins Maddox, five, and 18-month-old Zahara, whom Jolie adopted from orphanages in Cambodia and Ethiopia, and the couple’s one-year-old biological daughter Shiloh, who was born in Namibia.
Speaking for the first time about her new arrival, Jolie says Pax has fitted in well with the rest of the family, especially Maddox. But in his long journey from rural Vietnam to the riches of Tinseltown, he carries the emotional baggage of growing up in an impoverished orphanage.
“Pax is a great kid. When we first met him we thought he was really shy but after two days at home we discovered he is the loudest member of the family,” laughs Angelina.
“We don’t know if it’s because he has freedom he’s never had before, but he’s doing great.
“I’m really proud of Pax. It’s obvious he is used to stronger discipline, so it’s hard to change, but we are learning and he’s doing very well.”
Speaking exclusively on Thursday, she adds: “He is learning English and already speaks a little bit and the funniest thing was on my birthday on Monday to hear him saying ‘Happy Birthday, Mommy’ in the loudest, greatest, clearest voice. The kids were all screaming and singing. It was so much fun.”
Although the Pitt-Jolie children have slipped easily into the American way of life, Angelina is insistent they retain links with their heritage.
SO much so that she’s hired a Cambodian woman to visit the house to talk to Maddox and a Vietnamese woman to chat with Pax.
“They are both very focused in their language,” she says. “I love that my boys are growing up to love their countries and to love each other, too.
“Pax and Maddox have really connected because they’re closer in age and are brothers so they have moments when they bond together against everybody else in the family.
“They are a really tough team and then they have moments when they bug each other. It’s quite normal and it’s nice. It’s never quiet in our house.
“The four of them are a wild bunch. We’re never going to stop travelling. I think the greatest education I can give my kids, particularly as they are international children, is to keep them travelling.
“I think if they spend six months in Africa and come back to LA and then go to Asia for a few months we are showing them so much about the world and so much about understanding and tolerance and the beauty of other cultures.”
Angelina is chatting in a Los Angeles hotel room to promote her £5million role in new movie A Mighty Heart, out in the UK in September.
She plays Marianne Pearl, the widow of journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and executed by Islamic terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.
It tells the story of Marianne, who was pregnant at the time of the abduction, and her efforts to find him during the weeks following his disappearance and his eventual murder.
“She is an extraordinary woman and she handles everything with so much dignity and grace,” says Angelina. “I don’t know where she gets her strength from. She is so full of love.
“Because I had just been through a pregnancy, I was highly aware of how beautiful that time should be for the mother and father and the family.
“I clearly remember giving birth to my daughter and looking at Brad and feeling the love in the room and the hope for the future. So to understand what was taken away from Marianne was haunting.”
But when it came to the scene in which Marianne Pearl gives birth, the actress had to call on the British director Michael Winterbottom and other fathers on the crew to help her. “The birth scene was actually very funny because when I gave birth I had a Caesarean and I didn’t scream at all,” she says.
“Michael had to explain how a woman behaves in labour. It was funny that a bunch of men explained what to do.”
She chuckles as she adds: “I had to scream at the top of my lungs and all these men were screaming, showing me how to scream.”
Angelina’s charity work and her travels around the world as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador mean she is cutting back on her film work and A Mighty Heart could be the last cinema audiences see of her for a while, although she does not intend to abandon film work completely.
“I love being an actress,” she says. “I love telling a good story but I feel that at the end of the day when I die, what contribution will I have made?
“If I’ve entertained, that’s wonderful. But if I’ve been a part of saving a life or changing a law that can affect people and their children and their countries and their rights, then clearly that is the more significant thing to do with my life.”
On a personal front she is looking forward to having more children, although not quite yet.
“We have a big family now and we’re trying to make sure they are all well adjusted first,” she says. “We will have more children, but now we’re still getting everyone together.
“We love having children and there are some kids we want to help through school and other kids involved in our lives as well.
“In our home it is about making sure everyone has individual time, and right now all four of them have daily, very special individual time and we never want to have so many children we can’t do that.
“When they get older and if it starts to feel like we can fit more in, that’s how we’re going to gauge how many we have.”
Source : SoulieJolie