Angelina Jolie is a Bouquet of Beauty

State of Play begins shooting in late November in Washington DC.

Burn After Reading must not be a long shoot for Brad as The Changeling begins shooting in October in LA and they have been alternating work and parenting. Also Brad is scheduled to participate in Habitat for Humanity with Jimmy Carter again in LA in
October.

Average american woman is a size 12-14.

33 Reposting : 07/15/2007 at 10:35 pm
1998 Gussie

The whole interview:

American cinema’s most beautiful mug returns to the screen with his band of seductive crooks, in Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean Thirteen. Exclusive interview.

- In Ocean thirteen you co-star with Al Pacino, your idol. How did you feel?
- Al is one of the greatest actors ever. He is very nice, open and remarkably intelligent. I have never seen anyone invest so much in a role. During lunch breaks, I’d hear him repeating his lines to be perfect at the moment. Besides, I believe he was the only one in the band to be systematically excellent at the first takes.

-Yourself, you do not work like that?
- No. I’d become mad if I went home at night in character. To each his thing. Fortunately, I’m able to concentrate on demand.

- How did things go with Soderbergh?
- At he end, we were all a bit sad, because we had been informed: there wont definitely be a Ocean fourteen. It it depended on me, I’d have piled up for four or five more episode with the gang. Soderbergh is really an amazing, complex guy. He always manages to get new performances from his actors. He is someone who stimulates creativity without violence, he is not simplistic, quite the opposite. And he always leans towards human interest stories and I love that.

- Do you regret having done any of your movies?
- More than one, yes. I have made bad choices, been disappointed at some directors, and then, at a certain moment, I thought I had shot too much movies. I suffered from a compulsion that made me shoot two or three films a year and therefore some which I should never have accepted. A madness! Some are dear to me, like those I’ve shot with David Fincher, “Se7en” and “Fight Club”, but also “Seven Years in Tibet” de Jean-Jacques Annaud, the “Ocean” movies, or “Mr and Mrs Smith”. Many others, I have accepted by fear of finding myself unemployed.

- You, unemployed?
- Yes. I had shot some flops, like “Johnny Suede” which nobody remembers now, “The Flavour”, “Cool World”, “The Mexican”, “Spy Game” and moreover I was going through a turbulent time in my private life. Happily, more exciting projects, from respected directors I admire came my way.

- Like Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu’s “Babel”?
- Yes. That part of an American travelling through Morroco whose wife is accidentally shot by a lost bullet was terrific to me. Being an actor is not a hobby, it is a job that requires discipline, hard work and respect: lots of industry people only have a vague idea of what those words mean. For me, they are important, because counting back I’ve spent half my life making movies.

- You’re a working fiend…
- No, not really…

- But you say it yourself, you film a lot…
- A shooting doesn’t take more than three or four months. After twenty years that means a lot, but I particularly enjoy the waiting period between two sets. I do like acting, but I can’t stand the idea of going back to it

- If you are not addicted to work, to what are you addicted?
- To be exact. I’m not addicted to movies, but I am to the intensity a shooting brings.

- Do you think you have asserted your game?
-You do not? (Laughs). Frankly, I’ll say yes, I have.

- What’s the difference between today’s Brad Pitt and the one from his beginning, twenty years ago?
- If I answer that question, it will have to be a thesis. And we only have thirty minutes. If I sum it up in a sentence, the fact that I worked with people like Soderbergh, Fincher, Gilliam, Tony Scott, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Mark Foster and some others has polished my acting, cleaned it up and re-centered it.

- By whom would you like to be directed?
/b>- By people like Michael Mann, Roman Polanski, Ang Lee… You may think that at a certain level of fame, we choose what we want to film. It is a mistake. I’m happy with, and proud of, 90% of the movies I’ve made, but I’d have loved to do some others: “The pianist”, in the Adrien Brody role, even if I know I was not up to it, “Brokeback Mountain” in Jack Gyllenhaal’s role… Above all, I’d love to work again with Edward Zwick , with whom I shot “Legends of the Fall”. He did a fantastic job with “Blood Daiamonds” some months ago. I was very jealous of Leonardo DiCaprio! (Laughs.)

- It seems when you were little, you wanted to be Hulk…
-True. I adored a character that didn’t get red with fury, but green… I cracked myself up watching him.

- And it is soon coming back… without you! You must be so broken…
- (Burst of laughter.) I’ll try to survive it.

- You don’t love any other super heroes?
- I’m going to give you a scoop: I was asked to do the first “Spider-man”, but shooting permanently in front of a green screen to allow the superimposition of the 3D set would have made me loose my head. And I’m sure my public wouldn’t look forward to seeing me i that kind of production. I do not regret having refused.

We know Brad Pitt, the actor, less so the producer. How are things there?
Producing films is a financial bottomless pit. You stick your little finger in the process and you get eaten alive. But I’m proud of having produced Michael Winterbottom’s “A Mighty Heart”, adapted from the book written by the widow of Daniel Pearl, the journalist killed in Iraq, that was just presented in Cannes. Angie plays Marianne Pearl. I cried at the screening, she is that poignant.

- Have things always been clear for you as to your path and all that happened to you?
- Yes. I’m mature enough to take stock of my successes, the movies that worked well, those I’ve believed in but have failed and those I was always sure were going to fail. I did stupid stuff, the media didn’t spare me and cut me down to size. But sincerely when the media are on the look out for the smallest of your gestures, your slightest word, everything you do gets blown out of proportion. I thought I was stronger than the sensationalist press, that I should ignore them and live my life as I thought fit. But everywhere in the world things have become so hellish, so out of proportion, and even so unfair I had to let it go, or I’d have died trying.

Your tumultuous relationships with stars have not helped things…
- I admit my life has not been restful. But what I do not understand and cannot bear is when people entwine my private life with my work. All the events of my personal life, particularly with my ex (Jennifer Aniston), were overblown. From the moment the public is interested in you, everything you do is subject to multiple interpretations, of which three quarters are false and biased.

- The critics and the public shower you with praise, but, nevertheless, you have never received an Oscar or a Golden Globe, only two nominations. Does that disturb you?
- No, that does not prevent me from sleeping, but I’ll be happy when it comes. If it comes! My logic is the most beautiful reward comes above all from the public.

- May we risk asking you one or two very private questions, or are you going to put on your boxing gloves?
(Laughs) You may always try.

- Everything is well with Angelina? Because, when you’re together, she is not very smiling!
- She is not one to show her feelings. And she is not going to burst into laughter every twenty seconds on the pretext of having photographers around! Everything is going well and we are as much in love as in the first day.

Do you love her numerous tattos?
Of course! It is body-art brought to perfection. Angie is a work of art: One almost ought to put her under glass in a museum (Laughs)

- Couldn’t you have blown a fuse or, worse, became depressed with the media frenzy that surrounds your life?
- I’ve often exploded, but in private. In public, I’ve the strength to show I can play the game. I’ve experienced the relentlessness of the media for a long time and a certain form of rejection from the professional milieu who had me catalogued and reduced to the “pretty face” shelf. But rather than getting me down, this has energized me and I have fought hard to build a carapace. When you are stalked by photographers 24h/24h, believe me, you cannot behave normally. And I am not saying this as an excuse for some attitude or other. Our contemporary culture builds idols in order to better destroy them. You are put on a pedestal and than the game is to bring down the statue.

- How have you managed?,
By standing back, by retreating from the public stage, by not stringing films together, by taking an interest in the politics of my country and in the environmental problems that should concern us all. That has helped me understand how some things are so relative. And after meeting Angie I became a new man, intimately and artistically speaking.

- Actually, in keeping with your friend George Clooney, you are also tremendously worried about the state of our planet…
- Of course you’re going to say it is a bit hypocritical to proclaim oneself an environmentalist and to travel by plane, even if for professional reasons. But on my daily life I drive a small electric car, very powerful for that matter. I am very interested in the G8 Summits and often organize, as we did in Cannes, fundraisers to help the most destitute or for Darfur. To hang around artists such as Bono, Bob Geldorf, to be able to discuss famine and AIDS in Africa, malaria and the world debt with the chief decision-makers has also strengthened my beliefs. The need to inform and the urgency of these problems remain vital. I’m going to get more and more involved in the years to come. I’d love to have done something good in my life!

Christophe Combarieu

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I have a toothache that was sooooo sweet. Brad is soooo in love with Angie. Lucky dog. Yeah Brad fans I made a vid just for you guys:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_o1MBW16iI

St John hired AJ in order to move their image a bit way from ‘ladies who lunch” to reach the daughters and granddaughters of their core customers. Those knit pieces are extremely well made, so they are great to pass on, but in the last few seasons, they have had some more youthful colors and have changed up some of styling in the lines, but you can always get the classic suit. I was a big fan before they signed Angie, but I love her ads. I actually was a bit surprised since up to now they haven’t used the classic suits on AJ in the ads. But even so the lines are classic — and so is Ms. Jolie.

I hope they have a nice vacay, but I will admit it is hard to wean myself of the photographic signs of life we’ve been treated to on almost a daily basis since they went to Prague. Stuck with Zanessa and the Beckhams — seems like the dogdays of summer to me!

question: I watched the unrated version of MAMS twice this weekend (ain’t procrastination lovely?) Who is the voice of the therapist?

#183, hunnybunny, I think it is the director, Doug Limen?

175 syd : 07/16/2007 at 12:40 am
I only know about Burn afte reading - the Coen Brother movie that Brad is going to film.

Does State of Play even have a cast yet?

There was an article (I think in the Washington Post) of the director checking out sites to shoot in the city. So the movie is going forward but I have not read who else might be in the movie.

Missouri Fan love your video.

OMG..look what I found on craigslist just now - this person is an idiot and a creep exploiting children like this:

Maddox Jolie Look-Alike Wanted

PS If you’re not sure about letting your kid do this, you can come along and pretend you’re Angelina’s “personal assistant”.

What a pr*ck.

ntt : 07/16/2007 at 12:04 am
http://i17.tinypic.com/4u1gzy8.jpg

I have never seen this picture before. The girl holding the picture is really ugly inside out. I feel sorry for her.

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ntt,
I agree. This is the first I’ve seen the pic too…. Can’t imagine a person who actually could get that close to her and want to do that kinda of thing…

I’d be the one calling for a signature and a pic…if only to be that lucky to catch her around like that…

123Jill : 07/15/2007 at 11:23 pm
The X fans will probably start yammering that they will never buy a Saint John’s suit after they put Angelina in their advertisements. It’s a moot point anyway because the typical X fan wouldn’t be able to fit into a Saint John’s suit. Saint Johns doesn’t make clothes in plus sizes.

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Jill, I don’t even think X can carry off Saint John’s suits and style unless they come in khaki shorts and white crop top..the ones that ensure the nipples will show….. X is the trashy beach bum class type, wonder how many of her fans has nipple enhancement surgery….hmm..

mmkay, when i clicked submit, it won’t do anything, i have to clicked refresh then it’s doing something, am i the only 1 having this problem?

What’s toilet water? Why’s GP advertising it?

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I think she is promoting perfume..lol

brads got some models 2 huh?..lol hot mess

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