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Monday, October 28, 2024


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Angelina Jolie's children are paving their own paths in the world.

The Oscar winner—who shares Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox with ex Brad Pitt—doesn't expect her kids to follow in their footsteps by pursuing acting.

"No, I think they're especially shy, very private people," Angelina exclusively told E! News at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria in Los Angeles Oct. 27, "and they want to be private." (For more with Angelina, tune into E! News tonight Oct. 28 at 11 p.m.)

The Salt actress, 49, is receiving Oscar buzz for the film—which hits select theaters on Nov. 27 and Netflix on Dec. 11—in which she plays famed opera singer Maria Callas. And despite already having one trophy under her belt, the praise "feels really nice."

"Any support, or anything that says you did your job well," she continued, "especially when it's one when you care about so much, it means a lot."




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Sunday, October 27, 2024



AFI FEST 2024 Presented By Canva Red Carpet Premiere And Q&A Of "Maria"



HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Barry Jenkins, Pablo Larraín, and Angelina Jolie speak onstage during AFI FEST 2024 presented by Canva, Red Carpet Premiere and Q&A of "Maria" at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)










After a whirlwind tour of the Venice, Telluride and New York film festivals, Angelina Jolie and Pablo Larraín brought their film Maria to AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Saturday night.

The project — following Larraín’s previous looks at Jackie Kennedy in Jackie and Princess Diana in Spencer — explores the final days of legendary but troubled opera singer Maria Callas in 1970s Paris, as she fights to get back the iconic voice she has lost.

At a post-screening Q&A, moderated by Barry Jenkins, Larraín noted that “I don’t think there was another alternative, I don’t think this movie would exist if Angelina would have passed,” and required a star who could both capture Callas’ “larger than life” diva presence and have the discipline to learn to sing opera.

“I think when I was asked if I could sing, I thought, one, sing like an actor — I’ll sing as much as I can, I’ll do my best — not understanding what it is to sing opera,” Jolie admitted, calling the training process “a really emotional and very special and terrifying journey.”

She told the crowd that there haven’t been “a lot of moments in my career I’m asked to give everything you’ve got, and it’s one of the greatest gifts, especially as an artist, for somebody to ask for and want you to give everything you got, that you don’t know that you’ve got.” Jolie added she “got to be terrified again as an artist which is such a gift, because you get scared and have to do something you’re not sure you can do, and surprise yourself,” and with Larraín at the helm, “I knew I had a safe place to fail, so I was allowed to be free.”

On the red carpet ahead of the screening, Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter that despite transforming into an opera legend, she still doesn’t “really consider myself a singer, but I got through this one” and much like her character, through the role “I think I did find my voice again. I’d never sung at the top of my voice. I’d never had support to know how to do it, I’d never tried.”

“I’ve played a few real people in my life and you carry them with you; it’s different than other characters,” the star said. “Like she’s my sister now, she’s somebody who I know quite intimately and I really had to fall in love with to hope that I could help other people understand her, and I had to understand her to hope I was saying and doing the right thing. So I’ll always hear her music and maybe smile a little bit differently than someone else, because I feel close.”



HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: Angelina Jolie speaks onstage during AFI FEST 2024 presented by Canva, Red Carpet Premiere and Q&A of "Maria" at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)






Callas, made famous for her three-octave soprano vocal range, died in Paris in 1977 of a heart attack at age 53. Jolie underwent months of training to portray the renowned vocalist.

On the red carpet on Oct. 26, Jolie spoke to PEOPLE about how she connected with the character and where she sees an intersection between herself and Callas.

"I know there are certain things that people would assume from the distance that we have in common, but I think what we have in common maybe is that we share a certain loneliness in kind of sometimes doing our work where we're the one, I don't know, up at night, alone, trying to figure something out," she told PEOPLE, adding, "I don't want to speak too much about it because it's too personal, but there's definitely a loneliness and a work ethic."

"I may be many things, but I'm a very hard worker, right? I'm an imperfect person, but I work very hard and she does. And so I think we see ourselves, I don't know if she or I ever would see ourselves as anything but a performer and a worker who has a job to do, and probably very hard on ourselves," Jolie continued.








Angelina Jolie switched up her look with curly hair for Saturday's 2024 AFI Fest premiere of “Maria,” where she spoke to “Extra’s” Terri Seymour.

She looked ravishing!

Terri commented of Jolie's performance in the Pablo Larraín biopic about opera icon Maria Callas, “You have faced a lot of challenges in your life, but I am sure learning to sing opera was terrifying."

“Absolutely, it was the hardest, artistically the hardest," Angelina offered.

She added, “What an extraordinary challenge — what a gift — to have these teachers and a director that trusted me and encouraged me, to sing these arias, and listen to this woman."

She said to be combined in any way with Callas in art makes her pinch herself, calling it "really a gift.”

When asked about the tumultuous affair between Callas and Greek shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, Jolie replied, “I don’t know if that part fascinated me. She worked and she was very, very young. A lot of people have to work hard, and thinking somebody comes into your life and says, 'I want to have fun with you, I want you to relax, I care for you, I love you,' and I think for that brief time, she felt a certain kind of support and freedom, when it was at its best."

As for it being a “very heavy role,” she said her sons were a huge help. “Well, my boys were there, so I was very lucky. When I had my big emotional scenes, they would come bring me a tea and give me a hug.”

She went on, “The blessing of being an artist is we get to express a lot of things that we all carry inside ourselves. We all carry pain, and I have the gift that I am able to be supported to let it all out and have a safe place to do so. I wish that for everybody — that they can be supported… That they could just scream and cry it out… So, usually, I went home pretty light, then got back into it the next day."

Terri asked if she Angelina could relate to Maria, to which the star said, “I relate to that she is very hard-working and she is often alone."

Smiling, she quickly clarified, "That came out sad, and it wasn’t intended to be.”




































With her vocal coaches

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Angelina Jolie, Lori Stinson, and Eric Vetro attend Netflix's Maria AFI Fest premiere reception at Mother Wolf on October 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Netflix)

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Saturday, October 26, 2024



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2024 AFI Fest - "Maria" Premiere

















HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: Angelina Jolie attends the premiere of "Maria" during the 2024 AFI Fest at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)





HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: (L-R) Angelina Jolie and Bob Gazzale, President & CEO, AFI attend the premiere of "Maria" during the 2024 AFI Fest at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)

























Vocal coaches

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: Eric Vetro arrives at the 2024 AFI Fest - "Maria" Premiere at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)

Lori Stinson at the "Maria" screening at AFI Fest at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by River Callaway/Variety via Getty Images)



HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 26: Jacqueline Bisset attends the premiere of "Maria" during the 2024 AFI Fest at TCL Chinese Theatre on October 26, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Monica Schipper/Getty Images)







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Friday, January 3, 2020


20th Annual AFI Awards - Awards Presentation

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: Actor Brad Pitt and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI)

Bracelets and bee ring again visible.  Her Big Star towers over the children's initials.
Between the gold chain and red tiger's eye is a new bracelet that appears to be white gold with diamonds -- very similar to one Angelina has been seen wearing. 


Angelina's diamond and white gold bracelet.



LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: Clint Eastwood (L) and Brad Pitt attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: Brad Pitt (L) and Phoebe Waller-Bridge attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)



LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: (L-R) Actor Brad Pitt, actor Laura Dern, and filmmaker Quentin Tarantino attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for AFI)


LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - JANUARY 03: Actor Brad Pitt and producer Amy Pascal attend the 20th Annual AFI Awards at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills on January 03, 2020 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AFI)

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Stars of 2019's celebrated films and TV shows gathered Friday afternoon for the AFI Awards, which honored projects spanning "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and "Joker" to "Fleabag" and "Veep."
Pitt crossed a packed ballroom at the Four Seasons Hotel to pay his respects to the "Parasite" cast, including actor Kang-ho Song, who plays the patriarch of a scheming family in director Bong Joon-Ho's hit South Korean film.
The mood at the AFI Awards was celebratory, with famous faces embracing and wishing each other a Happy New Year. The luncheon, which lauds 10 films and 10 TV shows as 2019's best, is marked by the fact that there are no winners' speeches or honorees who go home empty-handed. At this event, everyone is a winner.
"Our unashamed goal for this moment is to free you," said American Film Institute president Bob Gazzale before a crowd that included Martin Scorsese, Saoirse Ronan, Clint Eastwood, Sam Rockwell, Awkwafina, Adam Driver and Laura Dern. "To provide an oasis to the junkets and the red carpets and all the stress that comes with selling (your projects)."
That lack of expectation makes the Audi-sponsored affair more congenial and relaxed than most, especially as it lands as a Golden Globes weekend, stuffed with events, begins.
As a lunch of salmon and grilled vegetables arrived stars mingled – from "When They See Us" director Ava DuVernay grabbing a chat with "Little Women" director Greta Gerwig, to "Joker" star Joaquin Phoenix deep in conversation with "Once Upon a Time" star Leonardo DiCaprio and "Fleabag" creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge catching up with "Pose" star Billy Porter.
Director Quentin Tarantino also represented his film sartorially, wearing a "Once Upon a Time" branded bomber jacket.
Mel Brooks surprised the crowd by popping up to give a tribute to his late wife, Anne Bancroft. "The Producers" writer/director took the opportunity to toast Taika Waititi's WWII satire "Jojo Rabbit."
"He did not ask my permission to use Hitler in a motion picture," cracked Brooks, searching for Waititi from the podium. "I just saw 'Jojo Rabbit' and it's really a beautiful picture. Taika, you did a great job."
The 10 films honored at the AFI Awards were "1917," "The Farewell," "The Irishman," "Jojo Rabbit," "Joker," "Knives Out," "Little Women," "Marriage Story" and "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" and "Richard Jewell," with a special honor given to "Parasite."
On the TV side, the 10 featured AFI programs included "Chernobyl," "Succession," "Game of Thrones" "Veep," "Watchmen," "The Crown," "When They See Us," "Unbelievable," "Fosse/Verdon"and "Pose." "Fleabag" was also granted a special award.


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Tuesday, November 14, 2017









By: Tom Dever

In a packed Egyptian Theatre with more than six hundred in attendance, Angelina Jolie spoke gracefully about her fourth feature film, First They Killed My Father. Based on the non-fiction book by Loung Ung (joining Jolie on the Q&A), the Netflix-distributed film tells the story of Ung’s own experiences under the Khmer Rouge regime in 1970s Cambodia.
Jolie, undoubtedly one of the world’s most well-known actresses and filmmakers, discussed her experience making the film and offered the eager AFI Fest crowd a few lessons for their own projects.

#1. PATIENCE

Jolie initially developed an interest in Loung’s book after she purchased it on a street corner while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider— seventeen years ago. They refused to shoot the film anywhere but Cambodia, a country without a substantial film industry or infrastructure. For nearly two decades, Jolie and Loung coordinated on separate charities and activist projects, developing the script and waiting for it to all come together. After partnering with Netflix, they moved into production in November of 2015.
For writers, it is natural to want everything to happen quickly and efficiently. Sometimes, doing a project correctly can take years longer than you’d hoped, but it’s always worth it when it comes together in the end.

#2. HUMILITY

First They Killed My Father was produced by critically-acclaimed Cambodian film director and screenwriter, Panh Rithy. His works focused heavily on the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime, making him a natural fit for the project. Jolie spoke of the experience of directing a film about a nation and culture that was not her own. From the very beginning, she deferred to Rithy and trusted his judgment for the treatment of such sensitive material.
Though you would never know it from her calm demeanor, Jolie is undoubtedly preceded by her fame and influence. On a project like this, it would be very easy for a director of her stature to force a production to yield to her demands. Instead, she respected the expertise of her collaborators and knew when to take someone else’s guidance.
Writers, perhaps more than any other creative, are protective of their work. Someone else offering a criticism, even a constructive one, can feel like a personal insult. It is important to remember, though, film is a collaborative medium. By surrounding yourself with smart people who care about you and your project, making changes or concessions, even ones you were initially resistant to, can help your project reach its full potential.

#3. WRITE WHAT YOU LOVE

As mentioned, Jolie first read the book while shooting Lara Croft in Cambodia. It fostered a connection with the nation, its people and its history. Her son, Maddox, was born in Cambodia in August of 2001. Jolie also spoke of his connection to the country, the story and the film. He served as an executive producer as well.
For an actress like Jolie at this point in her career, she could easily take parts in blockbusters or franchises and never worry about work again. Instead, she took on a project that meant something to her. In the culture of tentpoles and super heroes, a film about genocide in southeast Asia doesn’t fit with our modern conception of “broad appeal.” Jolie and Loung, though, remained dedicated to the project and saw it through to completion.
As writers, it is easy to feel the pressure to write something more “commercially appealing” or get the sense that no one likes the types of projects you write. The fact is, no writer, even the best, can fake their passion for the story. If you deeply care about what you are writing, whether it is a historical drama or a big budget blockbuster, it will come across on the page, in the film and with the audience.




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Monday, November 13, 2017





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On Collaborative Storytelling


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