OlderAngelina Jolie Interview by Ann Curry
Angelina Jolie sits down with NBC News’ Ann Curry to talk about A Mighty Heart, her extensive humanitarian work, Brad Pitt and their four children, and the recent death of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
The interview will air on The Today Show @ 7AM ET/PT and Dateline NBC @ 10PM ET/PT Wednesday, May 23.
So if I asked you, for example, right now — what’s something that’s untrue that you would like to say right now is not true… you wouldn’t know what was untrue that was written about you? No.
Nothing? No. I mean, I can assume. I know there’s a cycle of certain things that they keep rewriting or whatever, but I can assume things are made up. But no, I haven’t a clue. (laughter) And why would I, you know? There’s nothing I have to hide or defend. You know, I’m gonna live my life. And there are gonna be times when people wanna try to attack me and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay.
It’s okay? Well, there are other things I’m more concerned about. My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. Before I do, I wanna do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and that’s my focus. At the end of the day, I’m gonna be dead… and what people say about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are.
Is there anything you’d like to say to people listening now because you now have an unedited audience here — an unedited opportunity — to give people to unvarnished truth about who you are and what you stand for. Is there anything that you want to say about yourself? No. I mean… I have always been honest about who I am, and I’ve always been very outspoken to press. I think people have heard a lot from me (laughter) over the years. And - and you do hear more, you know?… People wanna believe negative things, they will. And I can’t help that.
Bigger picture and more interview excerpts inside…
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Jolie on her role as Mariane Pearl
It’s interesting. I was reading that you were actually six months pregnant when you first talked to Mariane. I was six months pregnant and –
But that helped you empathize? But it [did]. It was also a very interesting thing because for as much as I was kind of waddling around and feeling the heat, I couldn’t help but look over at this woman and think, “God, she is where I’m at now and I’m having — and not just the physical thing of being pregnant and, oh, that’s difficult. And I have this man with me who’s helping me through this and loves me.”
And it’s a joyous moment. And we’re about to now also have a baby, and we’re gonna look at this baby together across the room at each other. And it’s all those things that make that so much more. And to not just physically be thinking, “God, how is this woman physically dealing with trying to maintain her strength and take care of this baby that’s inside of her, working so hard and having so much emotional stress?”
But on top of it, what that took away from her. What that took away from this time in their life, this is the happiest time in their life. And what that must be. I just can’t imagine. I thought about that when I was breastfeeding. I thought about that all through kind of the birth of, you know, that haunted me and when I was sitting here quiet, I would think, “God, just a few months after, what is that like? What is that like?”
To play her was not easy. To play her at this time of her life was not easy. I’ve played real people before, but I never knew them. And, you’d think that would be easier. (laughs) I did. But the day before we started shooting, I had hardly slept and I was in a panic. I had gotten to know her and I’d gotten to know their son. And the thought that he would see this one day… It was my responsibility to not just show the world but also show him how much his mother loved his father and how much they loved each other and how they handled this time.
It was something that haunted me through the whole thing and haunted, I think, everybody involved. Nobody ever really voiced that and nobody really talked about it, but I’m sure it was something that she did become a friend.
So how do you play [that role?]- I’m sure if somebody said to you, “Your great girlfriend has gone through the most horrible thing in her life. Why don’t you stand up and show us what she went through and how it felt?”
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In a separate interview, Brad Pitt talks to Curry about his behind-the-scenes role as a producer on “A Mighty Heart,” which is produced by his Plan B shingle in conjunction with Revolution films. Dede Gardner and Andrew Eaton, two producers of the movie, also join Pitt in the interview. Pitt also discusses his global charity work with Jolie.
Brad Pitt, on his humanitarian work with Jolie and what people can do to help:The thing is just generating the will to understand. And that means focusing on certain events. Because it’s not all coming across our airwaves… and really investigating if something doesn’t feel right.
Generally, I would say it’s just not enough anymore to say that “it’s entertainment and enjoyment.” For me personally I’m saying, in my life, if you can move the ball forward a little bit… that’s what this is about. Where is it going to go? The interesting thing is how it evolves for me individually for myself, and watching the same with Angie. But where’s it gonna go? I’m not gonna stop.
We can have our things. And that is just getting your hands dirty, rolling up your sleeves a little bit and seeing where it takes you. And where it can, where you can best help. Where you’d be most effective. But there’s a lot of studying do.
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hi curly
This is a very beautiful couple. Inside and out.
I love the fact that Angie will not dignify the lies told about her, by even caring about what they say.
Angie, you are a class act, girl!
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hanna Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 10:52 am - flag comment
greetings from Holland,
Just got back from work, then I saw a new threads, i still speechless if i saw the pics of Adam Pearl, I wonder how he felt since he saw the movie about the father that he never met, but when i saw the pics on this threads and he full of smile among the people, that you can see how naif and pure children are….
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Adam Pearl’s mother said he won’t be seeing the movie until he is much older. He probably does know though that he is at the premier of a movie about his father.
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Jennifer Aniston is more of a woman then Adoptalina will ever be. Adoptalina makes out with her brother, self mutilates, wears vials of blood around her neck, has done heroine, gets tatted up like a prison mongrel, sleeps with women, oh and steals other womens men….Yeah real saint!!
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LUCY Says:
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Bwahhahahahahhahahahahahah another jealous and envious bitter haggiston!!!
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LUCY Says:
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LUCY??? Is that you LUCCIFER??? You’re so full of HATRED it’s eating you up!!!
I read that Aniston loved her “happy”. Word is that she took copious amount. I wonder if she’s doing it now.
ADOPTALINA IS NASTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! JENNIFER ANISTON IS BEAUTIFUL AND CLASSY AND BRAD MADE A BIG MISTAKE GETTING WITH THE BLACK WIDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LUCY Says:
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Calm down you have so much hatred in you! Did your boyfriend/husband leave you? You need help, call your local Psychiatric hotline right now before you hurt yourself or somebody. I feel so sorry for you. You’re hating the wrong people, people you don’t know and haven’t done anything to you.
Lucy,
Take the little pink pills dear, not the red ones. Go back to nurse Ratchett and tell her she gave you the wrong ones okay. That’s a good girl. Just ignore the purple elephants and keep looking straight in front of you sweetheart. Okay. You will feel better on tomorrow. Be sure to drink all of the water Nurse Ratchett gives you. It will help you dear. The voices will leave. I promise they will.
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Mrs. Lenny Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:15 pm - flag comment
~Zahara has a good eye. Adam Pearl is a very handsome kid. Z has a mad crush on this little cutie and I see why.
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LOL I so agree with you Mrs. Lenny. And we’ve now seen that our Z is a no-nonsense little lady………she’ll just tell you the way she feels - you do with it what you will………….just like her mommy. Thats so great.
BTW, Adam with his mop of curly hair and his dark skin, must have been a familiar face to Z………….thats perhaps why she was drawn to him. Like Angie was saying, they want to make sure to balance their family so that all members feel a sense of belongingness when they look at each others faces.
I never thought of this before but perhaps, in adopting another child of colour, would they adopt another boy or a girl? i always felt it would be a girl, with a head of curly black hair like Z’s gonna be, given that she’s from East Africa where the ethnicity is different from West Africans.
And while i’m on the topic - i have a feeling that their next bio child will be a boy. Wouldnt that be just perfect. Then i feel they will probably stop pro-creating and also stop adopting because they will then have SIX KIDS. Why would they want more than that? i hope they stop after six kids.
And before anyone comes talking about adoption as a means of giving an otherwise deprived child an opportunity to have a good life and blah blah blah, just remember that people dont have bio children because they want to give a child an opportunity to live………they have children because they feel impelled to procreate and feel they would be a good parent (those of us who PLAN our families, that is to say.) I know that perhaps a great majority of people just breed because they neglect to take birth control………..which results in all the trolls we have pestering this site LOL.
But seriously, it annoys the hell out of me when i see people referring to B&A’s adopted kids in terms that suggest that B&A are doing these kids a favour by adopting them. I believe their love for these kids is as pure as the love all good parents have for their own biological children Full Stop.
LMAO @ 262
Lucy dear, I think you should step away from the computer. Don’t try to respond because I have a feeling that you will get your a$$ whipped. Or maybe you like that ewwww.
i Still don’t get why people who hate them keep posting, i mean why waste your time? i hated the face that brad was with you know “WHO” i can’t type the name,anyways when ever i see them i used ROLL my eyes and change the channel and move on…
ROLL YOUR EYES AND MOVE ON.
Still don’t get why people who hate them keep posting, i mean why waste your time? i hated the *fact* that brad was with you know “WHO” i can’t type the name,anyways when ever i see them i used ROLL my eyes and change the channel and move on…
ROLL YOUR EYES AND MOVE ON.
lucy your hag of an idol does nothing but sunbathe,shop,exercise,do her yoga and hang on for dear life to that other hag c cox. Brad was probably in a coma half the time as for angelina whether you like her or not at least she actually has a personality. The most dangerous thing aniston’s ever done is gone out wearing factor 15 instead of 30. She is the poster girl for plain pathetic wimps out there.
referring bailey up there, i also noticed from previous entries that angie is wearing those same shoes in at least three occasions. (at least shoes in similar style, if not the exact same pair). gosh, i love this woman.
as for mediterranean’s encounter… gosh, that is so awesome!
#207: and a good morning to you too! No, on the contrary, we are very happy. We come to JJ’s to enjoy Brad and Angie. What about you? Why would you break stride in your oh, so fulfilled life to seek them out? Are just out slumming and just happened to stumble unto this thread?
s/o.
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hey Says:
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:27 pm - flag comment
BRAD PITT is cute but he isnt better looking than MICHAEL JACKSON before his surgery!
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GO PUT YOUR HEAD IN YOUR TOILET BOWL, flush and wash your eyes out.
I hadn’t seen this pic, thought I would share :)
http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/05/22/pitt_jolie_narrowweb__300×431,0.jpg
Times Review:
Michael Winterbottom’s harrowing film about Danny Pearl, the Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and decapitated in Karachi in 2002, is a raw account about the frantic efforts to get him back. It nails the ghastly moment when journalists became prized scalps for terror organisations. Angelina Jolie plays Pearl’s pregnant wife, Mariane – on whose memoir the film is based – with a rigour and passion that surprised even the most jaded sceptics in Cannes.
The film begins on the day Danny (Dan Futterman) fails to turn up for supper. He is working on a story about the shoe bomber, Richard Reid, and has arranged a meeting with an organisation who have background knowledge. A missed supper becomes a crisis within 24 hours. The film charts the hollow weeks Danny is missing mostly through Mariane’s eyes. The house of a close colleague becomes headquarters during the desperate search for motives and information.
There is a confusion of investigators treading on each other toes, and contradictory information about who might have snatched Pearl. Leaks and rash speculation in the press add to the vertiginous panic. At times it’s difficult to know who exactly is in charge. A terrific cast of fixers and officials tease out clues from laptops, emails, and telephone numbers. An uneasy alliance is gradually forged between an American diplomatic security agent, Randall Bennett (Will Patton), various Wall Street Journal friends including the editor, John Bussey (Denis[correct] O’Hare), the head of the Pakistan’s brand new counter-terrorism unit, Captain (Irrfan Khan), the Citizens Police Liaison Committee, and the FBI.
At the still centre of this increasingly tense investigation is Jolie’s defiant Mariane. The film shuttles manically between meetings, endless telephone calls, the growing media frenzy, and the streets of Karachi with terrific confidence. What the kidnapping means to each character is etched on their faces. The power of this giant documentary-style jigsaw lies between the rumours, the false leads, and the hard details. Winterbottom captures brilliantly the chaos of daily life in Pakistan, and the febrile atmosphere as Pearl is first denounced as a CIA spy, and then – when his Jewish roots are fatally exposed – an agent for Mossad.
The director’s rapid-fire and choppy editing gives you a genuine feel for the many different sides of Karachi, and the urgency of the investigation. Shots of street vendors and overloaded buses are slotted between armed raids and interrogations. You can almost smell the fear on suspects. And there’s a controversial flavour about the vested, sometimes murky, interests of assorted officials. Ultimately what makes the film such an affecting modern parable is the authenticity of the emotions. Jolie’s blasts of grief when Mariane hears the dreaded news that her husband has been beheaded pricks tears and raises the hairs on your neck.
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“Jolie’s blasts of grief when Mariane hears the dreaded news that her husband has been beheaded pricks tears and raises the hairs on your neck. ”
OMG I can’t wait to see this scene. Hopefully its as strong as Angie’s rant in the film Girl, Interrupted.
I love this woman. She’s just beautiful inside and out.
she looks nice but she got a little older and Brad did look older too on the pics of the mighty heart premiere but dont get me wrong i still think they look beautiful as a couple and as a person they are very nice and amazing people so how are you BAMPZS FANS?
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chanel angie 4 life! Says:
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What did you expect? For them to remain the same age for the rest of our lives? People get older…it’s apart of life and for the life of me, I’ll never understand why fans of this couple forget that Brad Pitt is 43 years old. He’s no spring chicken!
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PinkRose Says:
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ROTFLMAO……………you are killing me, thank you, thank you…………..LMAO.
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