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Friday, August 30, 2024








She’s one of the most famous actresses to have ever lived, but how formidable is Angelina Jolie’s filmography?

After winning the supporting-actress Oscar for “Girl, Interrupted” (1999), Jolie made a few big hits like “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” as well as a string of movies that remained steadfastly so-so. (Who remembers “Taking Lives,” “Come Away” or “Life or Something Like It”?) Jolie’s most recent movies, the mildly received “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and “Eternals,” were released back in 2021, and her only other Oscar nomination happened ages ago, for Clint Eastwood’s 2008 film “Changeling.”

Jolie has said that she takes frequent breaks from acting to spend time with her family, but it’s still been awhile since a movie really leveraged all she has to offer. Perhaps that’s why journalists at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday were quick to herald a career comeback in “Maria,” which stars Jolie as the opera singer Maria Callas: Here, at last, is a project that knows how to take full advantage of her star persona.

Directed by Pablo Larraín, “Maria” follows the soprano near the end of her life as she reflects on the pressures of fame, her tortured romance with the wealthy shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis (Haluk Bilginer), and a singing career that began to falter as Callas lost confidence in her voice. It’s a meaty role that lets Jolie switch between strength and tremulous vulnerability with a couple of operatic set pieces that have her singing directly to the camera, all but asking the viewer to marvel at that movie-star face.

Musical biopics tend to be catnip for Oscar voters, and at Thursday’s news conference for “Maria,” the first question was whether Jolie suspected she might have a shot at gold when taking on this role. The actress demurred, saying the people she was most eager to please were the opera fans familiar with Callas.

“My fear would be to disappoint them,” Jolie said. “Of course, if in my own business there’s response to the work, I’m grateful.”

In its focus on a famous woman grappling with the glare of the spotlight, “Maria” forms a trilogy with Larraín’s films “Jackie” (2016), which starred Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy, and “Spencer” (2021), with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana. (That Onassis was romantically involved with both Callas and Kennedy suggests an alternate version of Larraín’s oeuvre in which the Greek shipping tycoon would pop up in post-credit sequences, à la Samuel L. Jackson’s Nick Fury, to recruit Larraín’s leading ladies into an Avengers team of best-actress contenders.)

“When you work with Pablo, you can’t do anything by half,” Jolie said. To prepare for the film, she spent several months on vocal training and Italian classes. Though Larraín asked Jolie to sing the arias live on set, what we hear in the film are archival recordings of Callas with some of Jolie’s singing technologically blended in.

Jolie said she was “terribly nervous” when first asked to sing and kept apologizing to the crew for her performance. Still, spending so much time steeped in opera encouraged her to fall in love with the emotionally dynamic art form, she said: “When you’ve felt a certain level of despair or pain of love, at a certain point, there’s only some sounds that can encapsulate that feeling.”

Lately, Jolie has been locked in litigation with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, who will be in Venice in three days for the premiere of his new film, “Wolfs.” The festival’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, has said the scheduling of both movies was arranged so that Jolie and Pitt would not have to cross paths.

At the news conference for “Maria,” it sometimes felt as if Jolie was alluding to her troubles with Pitt. When asked how she related to Callas, who experienced her fair share of romantic pain and despair, Jolie chose her words carefully. “There’s a lot I won’t say in this room that you probably know or assume,” she told the press. “I share her vulnerability more than anything.”





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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Those Who Wish Me Dead  Press Day 2


"'I probably have a very long list [of 'nos']. I've been alone for a long time now,' Jolie joked."   --  Alone without a date for a long time = she has never dated, and very long list of 'nos' = she has no interest in dating.


"I don’t know how many women they’ve said I’ve been dating the last two or three years, and none of it’s true."
















Taylor Sheridan, initially brought on to rewrite the mountain thriller “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” gradually got more invested in the movie. When another filmmaker dropped out, he called the studio with an offer.

“I said if I can get Angie to do this with me, I’ll direct it for you,” Sheridan says. “They said, ‘Great. You’ll never get Angie.’”

“We all have times in our lives where we are broken. And we grieve and we’re not sure we have anything left in us,” Jolie said in an interview by Zoom from Los Angeles. “I identified more with a part of her that didn’t feel she could do a lot, and hadn’t done this in a long time. To be in this situation and have a director that is both sensitive and aware of the human experience, to go there and to feel it, but also to push you to find your strength and move forward.”

“It was really what I needed at that time,” says Jolie.

“Those Who Wish Me Dead,” which will on May 14 open in theaters and on HBO Max, is an anomaly for other reasons, too. It’s a star-led genre film not based on well-known intellectual property made by a major studio. (The film is based on Michael Koryta’s 2014 book.) Like Sheridan’s previous films —“To Hell or High Water,” “Sicario” (both of which he wrote) and “Wind River” (which Sheridan wrote and directed), it’s a tale of blood and justice across a vast and violent American landscape.

“To sound like a millennial, it’s very on-brand for me,” says Sheridan, chuckling. “But what’s unique is we made this at a studio. This is a studio film and they trusted us to go do this. We made it like a ’70s movie. They promoted it like a ’70s movie. The biggest 21st century element is the fact that you’ll be able to stream it or go to the theater.”

Snow was still falling in the mountains. Aside from the natural environs, Sheridan erected a faux forest and set it aflame. Jolie, an action star in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” “Salt” and “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” performed many of her stunts. Sheridan, accustomed to making films close to the land, had little luxury to offer beyond space heaters in tents and lavish, overbudget craft services. He cheerfully recalls the experience as miserable.

“You know, the character sort of drags Angie through emotional hell, and then I drug her through physical hell,” Sheridan says from a remote lakeside quarantine in Ontario. “That’s how we made the movie.”

“And I loved every minute of it,” Jolie says, smiling.

Jolie will next be seen in Marvel’s “Eternals,” by “Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao — another filmmaker drawn to fresh tales on old American frontiers. It’s been an unexpected break from directing for Jolie, who last helmed 2017′s Cambodian genocide drama “First They Killed My Father.”

“I prefer directing but acting gives me more time at home,” says Jolie. “It’s less of a commitment.”

Yet, if anything, the chances of such performances are getting slimmer. The pandemic, says the 45-year-old Jolie, has been a time of reevaluation — and movies are a diminishing priority.

“I was kind of spending more time at home regardless because of different family reasons. But if I was before spending half my time on my international work, I think I’ll now be spending 80% of my time on this other work. I’ll be doing less film work. Not quitting anything but a lot less,” says Jolie. “I’ve mentally shifting into a different time in my life.”

Jolie has been a special envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012. She applauds President Joe Biden’s recent expansion of U.S. refugee admissions but sees a global crisis only worsening, especially as countries struggling from the pandemic pull back on foreign aid.

“In the last decade, we saw numbers double. We’re looking at 80 million displaced people. A lot of those people are displaced because of the climate and the way that’s changing, and that’s going to keep changing,” says Jolie. “If we don’t take it seriously, we’re going to see a complete breakdown of some many things for so many people. Or this can be the turning point where we all pull together.”

“I like characters whose physical journey parallels the emotional journey they’re going through,” says Sheridan. “She was game. It was cold. I’d be like, ‘Get in the river’ and she’d be like, ‘OK, I’m getting in the river.’”



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Those Who Wish Me Dead  Press Day 1


"Can’t tell you everything. What do you have in you, you've gotta get through that fire. She starts being very broken, failed her psych exam. We all have those moments in our lives, where just don’t know what we’ve got in us. We’re low. It was important for me, at that moment, to see if I could do it, and to get literally through the fire and get to those end scenes and we're looking at each other and we'd done it. It felt like a good run we had together, and a good fight to push ourselves as people.”

"I felt a little beaten up in my own life, we all do at times, and I felt I wasn't holding myself together, and I felt a little broken, and the idea of just getting through the fire. Just getting through the damn fire.  Whatever it takes, with everything coming at you, get through it.  And so when you feel that way as a person and you have a great opportunity to have a piece of art that can manifest that experience and that growth through a character."

I've had my share of things that made me feel... you know, hard to speak too much about it, but just overwhelming or broken. So to have an opportunity, I feel very lucky. I wish all women could have this at times in their lives."

"I've had this many times in my life. When my mom passed away [from cancer in 2007] I did want it, you know? It's apart of something when you feel you just want to kind of hide under the covers or you're not sure what you got left in you. You get an opportunity and I would encourage anybody to do it. You're not a film actor, doesn't matter. Go somewhere, see what you got in you. Put yourself against the elements, or try something you've never tried and kind of try to rediscover that strength within."
 
"This is how you pull through, you pull through together."  "Find who you share the same morals and values with, and trust the right people, and hold those close."

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Not the white wall of the lockdown and not the DeMille dining room of most recent Zoom chats.  Closed curtains obviously obscures her location.


A gold, five-point Star pendant.
And what looks vaguely like an astronaut.



A look at another 5-point star almost identical in size and shape to her pendant, and a gold chain bracelet that is similar in size and shape to the gold chain her pendant is hanging from, making up half of her choker.


Good Morning America for FTKMF
George Stephanopoulos: You filed for divorce, you said, for the health of your family. Is your family healthier now?
AJ: We are focusing on the health of our family, and so we will be. We will be. We will be stronger when we come out of this because that's what we're determined to do as a family."

GS: In the past you described Brad often as a wonderful father, of course he's part of the family. Do you still believe that?
AJ: Of course. Of course. We will always be a family. Always.

Using Angelina's own emphatic words, the 7th spot anchoring the family birth coordinates will always be Brad's, just as the upper left quadrant of the family grid on his wrist will always be Angelina's.  All the spots of the members of the family are permanent and will never change.  Whatever is in their spot represents them.  The Star IS Angelina.

The tattoos that are a direct reflection of their relationship as a couple are the Rumi and Bob Dylan verses that express their devotion to each other and commitment to spend the rest of their lives together.  Worded like wedding vows, the tattoos themselves serve as wedding rings.  All are very visible, as are all their known intimate tattoos, most notably her birth date in Khmer on his abdomen.  These are all large to very large tattoos, less affected by the vagaries of photo lighting or angle, visible even in lo-res images, and thus are not of any use in desperate, cherry-picking idiocies.  It is also relevant to note that Brad's body -- his forearm, bicep, the front, side, and back of his torso -- is blanketed with tattoos for, by or dedicated to Angelina. 

Everything they've said and done has been consistent with their oft-expressed family health and reunification goals.

Everything.  

EPPUR SI MUOVE.  "Certain truths are undeniable."


The Rumi
‘There exists a field, beyond all notions of right and wrong. I will meet you there’.

The same in Persian, right next to Eppur Si Muove


Eppur Si Muove 



And from a Bob Dylan song, in Angelina's handwriting:
"We live, we die, we know not why, but I'll be with you when the deal goes down"





A reminder that Brad's latitudinal coordinates have always been lighter than all the others esp. when viewed from its left.
 
Dumbo premiere March, 2019

Nobu, Malibu, August, 2020



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“Extra’s” Nate Burleson caught up with Angelina and Finn to talk about the action-thriller, and to get Jolie’s take on Mother’s Day.

“It does mean a lot to moms, so try not to forget it… My kids have always been amazing at Mother’s Day. The fun for me is that I don’t plan anything, I don’t do anything, and they all tend to work together to surprise me with something. It is just the knowing that they are doing something together, and thinking of something together, and that they want to, and that they think it is important always makes me cry. They always joke about how quickly it makes me cry. They will laugh at how many times I cry in the day or how quickly I cry… ‘Oh, there she goes…’”

Speaking of “Those Who Wish Me Dead,” the star is happy to be back in the action genre after almost a decade, sharing, “I’ve been very lucky. It’s a bit of therapy. I’ve gotten to step into roles like this when I’ve needed to start swinging again.”

Finn was familiar with Angelina’s work before they teamed up for the film, saying, “I had seen ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,’ and was a big fan of ‘Maleficent,’ so I was very familiar with her and I was excited to work with her… We’re definitely screen partners and it will definitely come across in the film. I learned a lot being on set… and I’m sure I’ve learned a bunch from Angelina just watching her act.”

Q:  You learned a little about yourself, what are those things?
"Can’t tell you everything.  What do you have in you, you've gotta get through that fire.  She starts being very broken, failed her psych exam.  We all have those moments in our lives, where just don’t know what we’ve got in us.  We’re low.  It was important for me, at that moment, to see if I could do it, and to get literally through the fire and get to those end scenes and we're looking at each other and we'd done it.  It felt like a good run we had together, and a good fight to push ourselves as people.”

Nate pointed out that May is Mental Health Awareness Month, asking, “How important is it for all of us to remember that it is okay to not be okay sometimes?”

“It’s everything. It is those scars you can’t see… A lot of times, the strength is something that comes from having to survive something quite painful, survive a loss, survive something that broke inside you, feeling alone, whatever it may be, each person’s journey, you find that strength… So yes, it is extremely important we all talk about where we need help and who we are, and I’m certainly one of those people.”



"I felt a little beaten up in my own life, we all do at times, and I felt I wasn't holding myself together, and I felt a little broken, and the idea of just getting through the fire. Just getting through the damn fire.  Whatever it takes, with everything coming at you, get through it.  And so when you feel that way as a person and you have a great opportunity to have a piece of art that can manifest that experience and that growth through a character."


While speaking with ET on Monday:

"We all have times in our lives where we feel broken, and I was in a period like that," Jolie admitted to ET's Nischelle Turner. "I've had my share of things that made me feel... you know, hard to speak too much about it, but just overwhelming or broken. So to have an opportunity, I feel very lucky. I wish all women could have this at times in their lives."

"I've had this many times in my life. When my mom passed away [from cancer in 2007] I did want it, you know? It's apart of something when you feel you just want to kind of hide under the covers or you're not sure what you got left in you," she continued. "You get an opportunity and I would encourage anybody to do it. You're not a film actor, doesn't matter. Go somewhere, see what you got in you. Put yourself against the elements, or try something you've never tried and kind of try to rediscover that strength within."

Jolie said that one of the ways she tries to anchor her self-worth in is with her "use to others."

"I think that's always been, or at least being a parent before then, just contribution. I think that's what I try to tell my kids," she revealed. "It's you can try a bit of this, you can do this with your life, but at the end of the day, what's your contribution? What's your contribution to others, you know?"

"It wasn't just that [my character] doesn't have kids, she doesn't really know or I'm not even sure if she likes kids," Jolie explained. "That was the biggest note I got from [director] Taylor -- like, stop being so, you're being too nice to him, you're being too empathetic, you're being too right.'"

"You get into it, but yeah, her language around him, it was weird at first, and then it was oddly freeing," she added. "Finn was so tough and so fun, so it made it easier to kind of be really weird with him, beat him up a little bit and be strange [on set] and he knew it was OK. A different kid might've got his feelings hurt or found me really weird, but he found it funny."

Finn chimed in: "We would hang out some weekends, whether it was going airsofting or stuff like that, but I just feel like we had a good relationship on set because we were working with each other quite often," he said. "We just sort of got comfortable with each other and went from there."

"Airsofting is like paintball, but it's these little plastic pellets and we did it one weekend with Angie and her kids," he continued. "She was all right, I'll give [her] that."


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Monday, August 17, 2020







Press day was August 3.  Brooklyn is wearing the same outfit and braids she had on for the press conference. Angelina changed her outfit for the junket portion.




"I saw somebody show my kid one (TikTok) the other day.  I'm just late to the game.  I was never up with the latest cool things."  Since this was taped August 3, it wouldn't have been one of the cousins.












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Thursday, October 10, 2019



"We both very much need, and love and learn from the men.  I think that's also an important message for young girls."





LONDON, ENGLAND - OCTOBER 10: Angelina Jolie attends a photocall for "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" at Mandarin Oriental Hotel on October 10, 2019 in London, England. (Photo by Mike Marsland/WireImage)


















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Wednesday, October 2, 2019

More from Maleficent Mistress of Evil premiere, press con, press day



The NASA T-shirt is a favorite and may be a new one Brad just bought from JPL. 

We see one of the kids' unusually empty and uncluttered bedrooms.  It doesn't appear as though anyone has slept in it or is staying in it as there are no personal belongings visible at all.  Nothing on the night table.  Nothing on the floor.  No bag or backpack lying around that they would have carried for the quick trip back.

Most of the stuff strewn about and in suitcases are hair, makeup, nails, video paraphernalia.


No bath soap or shampoo around the tub.   Almost everything all over the bathroom apparently belongs to the hair, make-up, video pros.

The items on the bath counter also appear to belong to the pros. 

She walked in from the garden holding a cup but there's no sign that the kitchen was recently used.  No sign that breakfast or lunch was prepared or eaten here.  The stove and counters are clear.  It doesn't look like the sink was used to wash anything recently -- the soap dispensers are far to the side.

The lawn is lush.  No bald spot where the water slide would have been.  It has not been covered by the slide for a while -- not for at least the last part of summer.

Only the one Cadillac Escalade is visible where the driveway is normally filled with parked family cars.  The other garage door is blocked.


The obvious conclusion from the visible evidence is that they aren't staying in the DeMille.  It appears they just came over with some pets to be filmed preparing for the premiere.  The press conference and press day was Sept. 29 so they would have arrived back from London Sept.  28 or earlier.  At the time the video was filmed they would have been in L.A. for at least 2 nights.  There is no sign that they were in the DeMille for more than a few hours.  It is almost entirely devoid of personal stuff they would be using daily.  There are signs they have not have been staying there for some time even before they left for London.  And that is likely why she agreed to open it up for the video -- she would have balked at displaying it if it was their current home.  They are evidently all staying in their compound on Briarcliff.   She was last seen in L.A. on Sept. 4 shopping at Gelson's down the road, first seen in Thorpe Park on Sept. 15, and last seen filming Eternals on Sept. 20.   Brad had to stay behind for now, but given their recent rate of progress, this may be the last premiere he misses.  There are 3 or 4 coming up next year depending on when they slot Those Who Wish Me Dead. 


Maleficent Mistress of Evil and Ad Astra world premieres
Los Angeles and Venice, their big security sticking close to them.















“She’s naturally gifted,” Voight told PEOPLE on the carpet. “She has that kind of poise as a person and an actor that I witnessed growing up with the great stars of the ’40s. She has a certain persona that is hers alone, and she sits in it very comfortable.”
He continued, “She’s very strong. And that persona is very rare. So you have these great ones, as I say, when you see Angelina, you know what’s coming, you know who she is. She’s like one o those people like [Humphrey] Bogart or Katharine Hepburn. She’s one of those guys.”
That is high praise coming from Voight, who won the Oscar in 1979 for his role in Coming Home. Jolie followed in her father’s footsteps, winning the Oscar in 2000 for her performance in Girl, Interrupted and later received a second Oscar nomination in 2009 for Changeling.
Aside from his famous daughter’s acting chops, Voight said he also admired Jolie’s commitment to humanitarian issues and her work as a special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
“She does a lot of good around the world with the refugees. Her heart is always on display when she’s with those suffering people,” Voight told PEOPLE. “She’s tremendously compassionate, and she’s a fighter for those people. She’s a defender of those people.”
He added, “She’s terrific.”

 




















Thanks Felicity


Jolie also made sure to credit the men of “Maleficent,” such as director Joachim Rønning, co-writers Micah Fitzerman-Blue and Noah Harpster, and actor Chiwetel Ejiofor, with allowing their female colleagues’ strengths to flourish. The feeling was mutual for Ejiofor, who plays a new character, a dark fairy named Conall.
“She just brings such a complete, just everything to it — this real, all-encompassing energy and real knowledge of what she wants to do,” he told The Times. “Her projects really do represent her worldview ... I admire her so hugely as an actress but also as a force in the world.”
A force, indeed: A running theme ahead of the screening was Jolie’s immense influence on the film, which seemed to reach as far as Maleficent’s enveloping wingspan — from its fantastical costumes to its girl-powered soundtrack.
“She’s pushing everyone around her to be the absolute best,” Rønning told The Times. “It was in every part of the process. ... spending months with the screenwriters, getting it right. The angle of her horns, of course, the wardrobe, the color of her lips — hours and hours of relentless hard work.”
Come the next “Maleficent,” Rønning may be out of a job, as Jolie told reporters her next ambition is directing, and she’s already begun to think like a visionary. Like any committed mother — or producer — Jolie always had the final say. And all agreed the story was better for it.
“We’d write her some line of dialogue that we thought would really kill, and she would say, ‘You know what? I think I’ll do that with a look,’” Fitzerman-Blue said. “And she can.”




"It was great. I have to say, I was really thrilled when I heard about it," Riley said of returning to the sequel. "As we got back together and we were all dressed up in these crazy costumes, it was like it was yesterday. I mean Elle [Fanning] had obviously gone from being a 14-year-old to a 21-year-old. We hung out more this time. We had a lot of fun, gossiping and messing around and it was great to work with Angie again."
"The first time I was just beginning to enjoy myself and relax when it was all over, because it was kind of not intimidating, she's not intimidating, but she's Angelina Jolie," he continued. "When she looks like this it's really something, you know. So I think I was quite daunted by the whole thing."
"So this time I was like, 'Well I'm just gonna, you know, I'm in it. I'm gonna enjoy myself,'" he added. "That's not to say I didn't enjoy the first one, but I really, this from day one was like, 'I know what's going to happen.' I'm not the least experienced on set anymore. So it was cool. I enjoyed it."
"We had a lot of fun doing it because Angie sort of felt that our relationship was one of the things that people did enjoy about the first one and how we could, you know, make even more out of it and more out of this sort of this old married couple relationship," he said. "They bicker with one another, but, you know he adores her."
"I think she hasn't noticed him yet, but maybe that's just Maleficent," he added. "And you know that he saw her right from the beginning of the first one that there was something more to her than this angry, hurt [creature] and that she loved Aurora and I think she just developed that more. He's got more confidence to just suggest things to guide her in the human world. And what's the worse she can do? Turn him into a mealworm or something? She'll cool down."
We don't want to spoil anything, but Maleficent turns Diaval into a new creature in the sequel. We won't tell you what, but it's absolutely epic.









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Monday, September 30, 2019


More from the Sept. 29 press day and Sept. 30 press conference




Looks like a white gold or platinum version of the band.
















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Sunday, September 29, 2019


Press day, Los Angeles



Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil Rated PG for intense sequences of fantasy action/violence and brief scary images.  118 minutes


Jolie recently joined her Maleficent: Mistress of Evil co-stars Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning, who all sat down with ET's Nischelle Turner at a press day promoting their upcoming Disney film, and Jolie and Pfeiffer opened up about how they, as mothers, related to the movie's underlying themes of children becoming their own people and going off to live their lives.
"I just sent one off… I'm so proud of him," Jolie said of her 18-year-old son, Maddox. "I'm so excited, I feel like my world expands as their world expands. I learn so much from them and I love this stage."
However, the Oscar-winner admitted that, as a mother of six children of different ages, sending off her oldest to college is a "different" experience for her than it may be for other parents.
"[And] it's going to be different for different kids," she added. "Maddox was so ready."
As for Pfeiffer, who is the mother of two children -- daughter Claudia, 26, and son John 25 -- she says the experience of ushering her children into adulthood has been a mixed bag of emotions.
"It's a push and pull, because I do think a part of you feels like you're losing literally a part of your body, but you know, at the same time, what you really want for your children is for them to be incredibly independent," Pfeiffer shared. "So you've succeeded in doing what you set out to do, so you're incredibly proud, but it's hard to make that separation. For me, it was challenging."
However, the best part of watching your kids grown up, according to the actress, is seeing their personalities develop and flourish.
"I love how smart they are and how funny they are and their sense of humor comes out and it's really fun," Pfeiffer said.


Angelina Jolie is back as Maleficent, this time joined by Michelle Pfeiffer. Both iconic actresses and their co-star Elle Fanning met up for a sit-down with "Extra's" Renee Bargh to talk about their roles in "Maleficent: Mistress of Evil."
Michelle broke some news — literally — that she broke her arm getting out of a bathtub. "I was at a hotel and I got out and I saw really slippery marble floors... and I said to myself, 'Self, slippery floor, be careful.'"
Angelina, who brought her kids to set when she shot the first movie, "Maleficent," and whose son Maddox just started college, said it was always important that her kids understood her career. "The good thing, I think, is I've wanted them to be exposed to it all... It's a part of their life. But it's not important to them and a center of their lives in a way that's unhealthy, so it’s all fun.”
Renee asked if she related to Maleficent in the sense of finding a balance between letting her kids do what they want but still being protective, to which Angelina said, "I think I have an easier time than Maleficent... It's very hard for her... She just really doesn't trust humans."
Thrilled to be working with Elle again, Jolie said, "And now I get to work with Michelle, and it became a whole new experience for me. It’s always nice when you're with actors you respect and you get to play and you have something you get to chew up a little bit together."
Michelle admitted, "We laughed a lot," saying they would look around and marvel at the idea this movie was their job! Michelle remembered saying to Angelina, "You're in horns," and Angelina said she thought to herself, "Michelle Pfeiffer is yelling at me. And I'm a giant fairy."
Elle said, "I was 14 when I did the first film. Now I'm 21. So in my life, a lot's changed," prompting Angelina and Michelle to share what they would look back and tell their younger selves. Michelle said, "I think I wish I had not been so frightened for the earlier part of my career. Just in terms of learning how to adjust to being famous and losing my privacy... That part of it was hard for me, and I wish I had been a little more relaxed about it."
Angelina said, "'You have to go through everything — everything leads to something else, and it’s you. Hang on.' That's what I would say to my younger self. Just, 'Hang on. You're gonna love being a mom.'"
"Maleficent: Mistress of Evil" is in theaters October 18.















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