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Cate Blanchett on Brad Pitt
“It was great to have Brad there, to have that buoyancy. Brad’s open and funny, and he makes me laugh. He makes me think about the style of a film in a way I hadn’t thought about it before. He asks questions about the script that I wouldn’t even conceive of asking. He’s a very aesthetic being, and I’m probably quite an emotional being. So for me, selfishly, he brings that out in me.” — Cate Blanchett on working with Brad Pitt on their film Babel
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So long, Tijen. Take care.
Estelle Says:
December 4th, 2006 at 8:55 pm
ell Says:
December 4th, 2006 at 8:32 pm
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what interview? the new one or the old one?….I thought the wedding scene were toward the end, when Doug wants to have more romantic scene….
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here http://www.style.com/vogue/feature/022304/page2.html
Jolie began work today on Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a film directed by Doug Liman (Bourne Identity) and costarring Brad Pitt. “They were putting Brad and me together and trying outfits on us, seeing how we look as a couple. It’s always so silly; you don’t know somebody, and in three days you’re going to be married. Today was the day we started to become Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” Tomorrow, she says, “I have gun training.” The film is about a couple who discover they’re assassins hired to kill each other. “It’s a study in marriage,” says Jolie, “and how well you know your partner. They’ve been living this suburban life for about six years, and they have these very mundane and very average marital problems, and you think they’re having affairs, and then you slowly discover that they’re both separately hit men. They’re enemies and the marriage is a fraud and they’re each other’s covers, so they have to kill each other.”
Tijen:
(December 5th, 2006 at 3:32 am )
I have never spoken to you before Matey, but “good luck & God Bless”, with all you have to do. I know what you mean about this site…some very cool people “hang” here. Truly dedicated to the “JP cause”. Jared & Audrey do a wonderful job with this site!!!
I haven’t been able to post here in ages and I would like to now, just now,
*having run through the door, still gasping for air even* shout out,
“GIDDAY BAMZSER’S”!!! Haved missed all you guys & my time here at J2’s heaps. I hope all of you have been keeping well. “Life” has well & truly tried to take over for me lately. hmmmmm I have managed the small, occasional “lurk” here from time to time and that is about it, however, I have never stopped me, luvvving of the Jolie-Pitts!
Oh well…I am sure I have missed heaps of cool stuff & MANY, MANY LAUGHS! (Which is totally my loss.)
but, CHEERS to ALL BAMZSER MATEYS!!! (Oz may be down under, but it is still on the world map!) “:)
Ike Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 12:49 am
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This article is a cut and paste job using answers Brad gave back in 2004.
Pickle from Bradforum realize parts were from an old Marie Claire article. The naked answer was before he had kids.
Cyberblondie!!!!
Hi! Malaya and I had been discussing your absence at one of the threads (of course, there are so many, so I can’t for the life of me remember which one). We really missed your cheery postings — I even commented that the last posting I saw that you did was during the infamous Just Jared meltdown last September, when the site just crashed, giving birth to the Yahoo Group. Anyway, glad to see you’re back.
Tijen,
Good luck in your endeavor. Will miss your postings.
MF (Char):
Did you finally dig out of the snow? Here in Chi-Town the downtown area is pretty much all cleared of the snow, because they always see to it that the downtown streets are well-salted. But in our neck of the woods, the snow has turned to ice and is packed so high that I still have to do some major hopping to step over the ice pack!!! I also have to be careful that I don’t go step on a sheet of ice so that I don’t go slip sliding away. Hugs to little Bradley.
Mediterranean Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 5:03 am
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Thank you very much!!! I’m glad you are feeling well again.I hope you will receive many blessings in your life too!
Tijen Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 3:32 am
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Good luck with everything you are up to.We will miss you here.Take care of your self and your loved ones.Our thoughts will be with you always…
cycloneblondie Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 5:49 am
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Yay!!! You’re back!!! What took you so long missy?? :lol:
Everything is still fine in BAMZSville…
Ell,
I am sorry but the wedding scene was filmed in Feb., 2005 not 2004.
In her 2004 interview when she said she will be married in three days means she will play a married woman in three days. Also I know the scene was filmed in Feb., 2005 because I saw the picture of wedding scene and it was marked as filmed in Feb., 2005. I should remember where exactly I saw it, but trust me I saw that.
NaNa Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 6:40 am
I saw that as well… it was filmed in February 2005 - if you watch that piece again you will see the smirk on his face when he had to kiss her and her nervous giggles) (lol)!
The Feb 2005 date is because of re-shoots but the original wedding scene was shot in 2004. In fact, some of the sides were in the tabloids at the time.
Hm, I did not know there is an original wedding scene.
Anyway, I believe the wedding scene we see in the unrated DVD is the Feb., 2005 shoot. Also I believe most parts of the Bogota scene that we see in the DVD as well as in theater are 2005 reshoot. Because the original was not hot or romantic enough that early reviewers said MMS was violent and wished to make it more romantic - so the reshoot.
There were no FEBRUARY 2005 reshoots. Brad didn’t have a BUZZCUT in February 2005. Brad had his “spikey hair” until at least March 9th.
The only M&MS filiming in 2005 was the week of March 14-18.
The wedding scene is from EARLY 2004, that’s the only time it was filmed, there was no reshot wedding scene.
The confusion is because SJ has it listed as February 2005 and that has misled people who continue to spread the wrong date around.
Original jpf Says:
December 4th, 2006 at 8:12 pm
think positive! Says: December 4th, 2006 at 7:34 pm
“Every Greek person I have ever met has just beautiful of heart except one, and old neigbhor. She just was a chronically unhappy wench.”
- I swear I thought you were going to put Jen.A’s name on “the old neighbor” part. Well, she fits your description to a T
why do we have to click previous intree…..morning jared and audrey!morin all.
I hope it’s okay to copy some posts from other sites here. I’ve just had the chance to go around the internet rooting for BAMZS related sites and topics today and I’m constantly amazed by the little things I’ve unearthed about Angelina. She was despised by some pretty vocal section of the american population but she was universally loved and adored. I have come across this post from SoulieJolie.com, my heartfelt apology if everyone have already read this but I find this uncommonly touching:
Tulula (from SoulieJolie.com - on missing the “OLD ANGIE”)
Reading – against my better judgment – through this topic what I keep coming back to again and again is the idea of identity and notions of self, alone and in relation to others. The thing I find the most troubling and which saddens me is that in many ways Jolie has ceased to exist as her own creature and is regarded only in relation – positively or negatively – to Pitt.
For all the nostalgia for the Jolie of old, the woman who had a career, a calling, a child, who shimmied and shimmered and insinuated herself into our minds and imaginations for a good ten years full to bursting with movies and lovers and marriages, orphans and prime ministers, fathers and brothers and refugees is, in a single moment on an isolated beach, transformed into a mistress, a *****, a thief, the luckiest woman in the world. And on and on. Everything she is and was and will be is transubstantiated in to whatever she is and was and will be in relation to Pitt, and see how those 10 years seem to melt once you get to the second half of the story? Whatever thing of her own Jolie had going got hijacked — happily, perhaps — by the media, by Pitt, by babies. And perhaps it is only in retrospect, when she has grown up, moved up, moved on that we realize that, for all of her celestial beauty, she was perhaps not so different from us.
What got left behind is the realm of the single girl — lonely, freaked out, proud of herself for getting by, and wholly consumed by her work and her world and the space in which she is carving out her identity — in love with herself and the way she’s learning how to live, to be a force in the world. If we’re lucky, we get that when we’re single: a period in the midst of bad boyfriends, of not knowing whether it all ends up OK, of anxiety about money and friends and identity, when suddenly we’re at peace and can feel ourselves propelled forward. It’s when all the self-absorption becomes the fuel on which we ride our careers and independence as far as they go before they get stalled by families or mortgages. It can be an absolutely gorgeous, selfish, powerful moment for women. But sometimes — often, in fact — that same period of rootlessness really blows. Anyone who’s ever spent a night mourning the absence of true love will feel their stomach clench in sympathy. Remember the soul-gobbling misery? The conviction that the only person who’s right for you — rogue, married, deluded — has left you to a life of empty encounters with nameless, faceless, wrong people who will never know you as he did?
A single and unsettled youth exists as a blur. You never know when or if or how it will end — with money, romance, kids, a move? It’s a period defined by its utter lack of certainty, and thus a period that is hard to define at all until something about it changes. It’s in that moment of transformation — whether it’s finding love with a ridiculously hot and brilliant movie star or, you know, moving into a nicer apartment — that whatever has come before gets thrown into focus. It takes shape and becomes more beautiful than it ever previously appeared — precisely because it’s about to end. Maybe that’s what 2005 was for Jolie, the moment that she realized that she got the guy and the life she never thought would be hers, and in doing so, cut herself off completely from whatever had been hers and hers alone.
Every harried mother and every wife must experience nostalgia for a time when she was regarded on her own terms and not in relation to someone else, even if that means revisiting the uncertainty of solitude. Jolie’s experience is just writ very, very large: live alone and struggle for years, watch two marriages implode very, very publicly; fall in love with the most famous and successful actor in the world; live through the end of his agonizing marriage to another woman; become his wife in all but name and mother to his – once solely yours – three kids and have gobs of money and a life where you get to make the movies you want, the donations you want, the changes you want. And perhaps in the dead of a different night look back fondly on the days when you were lonely and struggling.
If it’s true, the story is a nice retort to all the Pitt fans who have pigeonholed Jolie in a million ways, always in relation to their hero. She is a mistress; she is the wild child. She is the “right wife,” taking the place of the “wrong wife.” The “bad girl” usurping the place of the “good girl.” And what gets lost in the fray, at least from where we sit, gazing in awe and adoration and envy at our computer screen, our television screens, the big screen and all the thousands upon thousands of magazines, is the person she was before she started to mean so much.
This a woman about whom I’ve thought a lot over the years — cheering her, envying her, wondering how she got so thin, so beautiful, so strong, so wise, how she got so lucky and now I am starting to wonder if she wonders, catching a glimpse of herself, her man, her babies if she perhaps wonders if she gave away too much. I hope not. I hope she is consumed with joy, with contentment, with peace in the knowledge she has found a safe place to store her cache. That she is secure in the knowledge the she guessed the answer to at least this riddle: that if you’re going to live in the inescapable orbit of an enormous sun, you might as well benefit from whatever heat it offers. And perhaps this is another, a different lesson she offers to those of us still struggling with bills we can’t pay and worrying about boys we can’t have. Whatever it is that shimmers in the distance for us — that thing we long to grasp but fear we never will — may not only find its way into our lives, but someday become mundane and thereby all the more perfect for its very ordinariness.
Very cold here!!! Brrrr!! I’m bundled up Micro!
Hello to all dear Worldwide BAMZS fans!!
Tijen- I will miss you.. May God be with you always.
Freidaflo: Hello out there in Florida >> nice weather hah?
briseis: Good Morning Chicago girl!
Think Positive: your Birthday is same as my Dad!
Off to go to work… Have a good day everyone!
daisy Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
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That person sounds like a self-important, delusional psycho.
Daisy -
Thanks for posting. That was absolutely brilliant.
daisy Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Tulula need to LET IT GO! It’s been nearly 2 years.
” Every harried mother and every wife must experience nostalgia for a time when she was regarded on her own terms and not in relation to someone else, even if that means revisiting the uncertainty of solitude. ”
If she feels that way I feel sorry for her kids.
Angelina has never been happier, neither has Brad. Those who wish otherwise are selfish.
Its Angie’s life not Tulula’s.
briseis:
(December 5th, 2006 at 5:59 am )
WOW Matey!!! Such a “warm & fuzzy” re:welcome, thank you very much, to you and Malaya. Big “hugggeeeee” cuddles for you both! You are sooooo sweet! “:)
Yes! hmmmmm Something “serious” happened here “awhile” back now @ J2??? and I suspect it all boiled down to that devious, sick looking, “Mr BubbleHead”!!! (???) (aka. the TypeKey ID)
Ahem…anyways…I tried to “play the game”…but…geeezzzzzz
Oh well! Moving right along….
I sooooo missed all of you BAMZSER’S here, but, the whole experience of even trying to “communicate” with you guys, became totally “unbearable/impossible”…and I just “QUIT that ****!”… so I can only blame that on that, darn, Mr. BubbleHead! aggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh (However, I NEVER gave up completely!!! giggle “:)
think positive!:
(December 5th, 2006 at 6:13 am)
Hey TP+++!!! “:)
hahaha *now bows head in shame* “:(
I have sooooo missed you! (& all of the BAMZS’ERS here!!!)
Thank you for your kind greeting/re:welcome back to “BAMZSville” post. lol
(You made me laugh, you, you, MISSY GIRL, you!!!)
Cheers Matey! (You’re just the best! & I do just salute you.) “:)
daisy Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
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I hope some people will finally realize that it’s impossible to put your own perspectives and your own beliefs upon a person you admire.They have to understand that it’s Angie life and it’s in her own will to chose what she will do and how she will live.Just because me or daisy or any other person feels in a certain way it doesn’t reflect to them in any shape or form.These people must learn to respect their chooses and live it to that.It has nothing to do with their lives.Angie knows a way better than me or you how to live and what she wants.
daisy Says:
December 5th, 2006 at 8:37 am
Thank you daisy for bringing that over. I think what Oldie wrote is fantastic but since I’m about to run out the door I don’t have time to explain why. LOL
Good Morning BAMZS Fans, especially to cycloneblondie who has been sorely missed. Welcome back!
People who miss the “old wild Angie” need to get over it and grow up because she has. Frankly, I would be concerned if she hadn’t evolved at all especially since adopting Maddox. These individuals, from what I’ve seen, have no idea what it’s like to be a parent. Angelina said it perfectly, you can’t be self destructive when you become a parent because it’s no longer about you, you have another life to care for.
Also, it’s immature and wrong to criticize a woman who is selfless and has realized that there is a world outside of herself. Instead of thinking “Me, Me, Me” she’s trying to improve the lives of others and is changing the world while doing so. On top of all that, she’s found a man who has the same goals in life and together, they’ve built a beautiful family and life. Her brother and her mother have talked about how happy she is because of Brad and the kids. Beyond that, look at the pictures of them gazing at the each other. Anyone can clearly see the love and adoration they share.
A true Angie fan cares about her happiness, he or she wouldn’t whine about how she’s no longer “wild” or how she’s not living her life by his or hers standard. But hey, if they want to live in past and look back at her “wild days” then let them. Personally, I prefer to live in the present and in reality.
Thank you Daisy for bringing that post here. I am happily married woman with three children and from time to time I do long for the time when I was single and more carefree. So this part really resonates with me.
“Every harried mother and every wife must experience nostalgia for a time when she was regarded on her own terms and not in relation to someone else, even if that means revisiting the uncertainty of solitude.”
As a mom and a wife, I have difficulties acknowledging this longing without feeling a bit selfish about it. Maybe it is because I really married young and didn’t have much chance to explore life unencumbered with family responsibilities. Angie has experienced a lot while single. She seem very fulfilled with her life now and I don’t think she wants to go back to the more “self-destructive” and volatile phase of her life. It helps that Brad seem to encourage her to seek out her interests and passions and even shares them with her.
deena, I think (my own understanding) the post is not insinuating angelina having regrets. I actually thought this post is quite positive towards Angelina. Because you read the first paragraph as something against AJ (”most troubling and which saddens me is that in many ways Jolie has ceased to exist as her own creature”), you quite get bad vibes on the first paragraph but coming towards the end the poster mocks the first part of her statement and lauding AJ for finally becoming the person she is now.. a mother, a wife and partner to brad, humanitarian, etc. and reconciling what she is now to what people perceived her as before. I don’t think this is a hater post at all.
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