International star Angelina Jolie tells Al-Mawed: My life after divorce is painful, I don’t like it and I didn’t want it
The wars taking place in Syria and elsewhere are extremely painful events, and we must resist the causes that lead to devastation and famine.
- I'm happy now that I don't have cancer, but if I do get it I hope it's many years away.
- In my last film, my son from Cambodia was with me as an assistant director.
- Having six children in my life made me know how to deal with children while directing my latest films.
Directing is more difficult than acting.
- I took cooking lessons, and I cook with my children around me.
For the international star Angelina Jolie to say that her life circumstances are difficult and volatile is a true statement and not exaggerated at all. Since her childhood, she has gone through several stages that affected her life and feelings. When she started her acting career, she clashed with her father, the actor JON VOIGHT. In a statement to a film magazine, he said that she was psychologically and mentally disturbed, and as a result, she revolted against him and declared that he was a deceiver and cheated on his wife and that he ran after women. These statements affected her relationship with her father, and they quarreled for years, despite the fact that her father tried to reconcile with her, to no avail.
The second station that affected her life was the death of her mother and her discovery that she had a genetic disease that leads to breast cancer. As a result, she underwent operations to remove her breasts, then her uterus as a preventive measure to avoid getting cancer. She also got married three times, all of which ended in divorce. All of this affected her, even though the subject of marriage and divorce in Hollywood is not strange to cinema people, but of course it affects people's psychology, even if only a little. Her last divorce was from her husband, the famous actor Brad Pitt, who was married to the famous actress Jennifer Aniston when he met Angelina. At that time, rumors and gossip spread that Angelina Jolie had stolen him from his wife.
On the one hand, Angelina Jolie is very active in charitable and humanitarian work. She travels to countries that are economically collapsing due to wars and political crises in order to help the needy and poor there. She has visited several countries in Central Africa and Southeast Asia to send aid and various assistance to the point that the United Nations granted her the title of “UN Ambassador for Migrant Affairs” and the Queen of England granted her the title of HONORARY DAME.
When I met Angelina Jolie recently, I asked her: How have all these works and titles affected your cinematic work and is there any relation to the last film you directed? She replied: "Of course, my travel to all these countries and the destruction I saw had a great impact on me, and you can see that in my films and even in my personal life. I adopted three of my six children, one from Vietnam, another from Cambodia, and another from Ethiopia. I also finished directing a film about the results of the wars in Cambodia. The story of the film revolves around a family and the horrors they endured as a result of these conflicts. This film is based on the story of a real family and what happened to them during and after the war."
I asked her why she didn’t act in the film but only directed it. She said: “The film takes place in Cambodia and I don’t look like the characters in the story. Also, acting in a film with this theme and directing it is very tiring.” I told her that one of her sons is from Cambodia and can act in the film. She said: “If you look at the list of actors and directors, you will find that my son’s name is among the assistant directors. He is 16 years old and was by my side all the time helping me with the directing.”
Angelina's latest film is "AT FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER" which tells the story of the war in Cambodia through the eyes of a child who went through the horrors with a young brother and sister. I asked her how she dealt with the children so that they would play the roles throughout the film. She said, "In fact, this is not easy at all. They want to play all the time and not work on finishing the film. Therefore, you have to make acting for them like a game and respond to them. You should not pressure them too much. They are children first and foremost. I have six children, so this helped me deal with them."
I asked her about directing and acting and what the difference is in her opinion and why she entered the field of directing and its consequences, she said: “The actor’s work is limited to his performance only, it is a simple task for the director who must search for everything related to the film from the actors to the filming locations to the lighting to the story to everything related to the work from all sides, so the director’s task is greater than the actor’s task and more important, so I prefer directing because it gives me the ability to control all the details of the work.
I asked her, “With all these responsibilities and obstacles in your life, how do you find enough time to do your duties?” She said, “My life is full of many responsibilities, especially since last year (she divorced her husband about a year ago), work, and children. It seems to everyone that I have overcome all these obstacles, but in reality I feel that I am trying to continue my work and do my responsibilities day by day - and if you love your work, this makes the difficulties easier for you - and on the happy side, I am happy that I do not have cancer and that I have undergone preventive operations to avoid this cursed disease, but if it comes to me, I hope that it will be many years from today. Now peace of mind is very important to me and has a great impact on me psychologically, and my health is now the first priority for me.”
I asked her about her opinion on the current events taking place in Syria, Gaza and the areas witnessing wars. She said that these events are very painful and she feels it whenever she sees a picture of an innocent, miserable child in the midst of these conditions around her. We must think that what happened to this child could happen to any one of us. We must resist the causes that lead to famine and destruction.
I asked her about her life after the divorce and she interrupted me and said: “It is not a nice and painful life and I do not like it and it is not a life I wanted.” Her response was categorical that she was not happy with her new life as a single woman.
I told her that I heard that she is taking cooking lessons. Is this true? She said: “Yes, this is very true. I am learning to cook. It is an outlet for me in terms of my love for food and cooking. My children gather around me while I am cooking and discuss my cooking method. Some of them are even now giving me instructions on what I should improve in my cooking method. Some of them even boast that they cook better than me. I asked her if she had a cooking recipe that I could give to the readers. She said that she does not have any cooking recipe and that she does not follow recipes. Rather, she tries to do what comes to her mind while she is in the kitchen.
I asked her about the rose wine that she helped make, and she said that winemaking is a unique industry and that they are now working on producing a new type of wine. She said that its name, as far as I hear, is “Miraval,” but they might change the name when it is produced.
I asked her how she sees herself ten years from now and how she saw herself ten years ago. She said: “Ten years ago I did not imagine that I would be in the current situation in terms of family or work, or even that I would be a director. As for what my life will be like ten years from now, I do not know exactly what the future holds for me. My children will have grown up and are in university, and I hope so, but I do not imagine that they will have children, meaning that I will be a grandmother. The truth is that the future is not clear to me.”
Hollywood-George Doss
- I'm happy now that I don't have cancer, but if I do get it I hope it's many years away.
- In my last film, my son from Cambodia was with me as an assistant director.
- Having six children in my life made me know how to deal with children while directing my latest films.
Directing is more difficult than acting.
- I took cooking lessons, and I cook with my children around me.
For the international star Angelina Jolie to say that her life circumstances are difficult and volatile is a true statement and not exaggerated at all. Since her childhood, she has gone through several stages that affected her life and feelings. When she started her acting career, she clashed with her father, the actor JON VOIGHT. In a statement to a film magazine, he said that she was psychologically and mentally disturbed, and as a result, she revolted against him and declared that he was a deceiver and cheated on his wife and that he ran after women. These statements affected her relationship with her father, and they quarreled for years, despite the fact that her father tried to reconcile with her, to no avail.
The second station that affected her life was the death of her mother and her discovery that she had a genetic disease that leads to breast cancer. As a result, she underwent operations to remove her breasts, then her uterus as a preventive measure to avoid getting cancer. She also got married three times, all of which ended in divorce. All of this affected her, even though the subject of marriage and divorce in Hollywood is not strange to cinema people, but of course it affects people's psychology, even if only a little. Her last divorce was from her husband, the famous actor Brad Pitt, who was married to the famous actress Jennifer Aniston when he met Angelina. At that time, rumors and gossip spread that Angelina Jolie had stolen him from his wife.
On the one hand, Angelina Jolie is very active in charitable and humanitarian work. She travels to countries that are economically collapsing due to wars and political crises in order to help the needy and poor there. She has visited several countries in Central Africa and Southeast Asia to send aid and various assistance to the point that the United Nations granted her the title of “UN Ambassador for Migrant Affairs” and the Queen of England granted her the title of HONORARY DAME.
When I met Angelina Jolie recently, I asked her: How have all these works and titles affected your cinematic work and is there any relation to the last film you directed? She replied: "Of course, my travel to all these countries and the destruction I saw had a great impact on me, and you can see that in my films and even in my personal life. I adopted three of my six children, one from Vietnam, another from Cambodia, and another from Ethiopia. I also finished directing a film about the results of the wars in Cambodia. The story of the film revolves around a family and the horrors they endured as a result of these conflicts. This film is based on the story of a real family and what happened to them during and after the war."
I asked her why she didn’t act in the film but only directed it. She said: “The film takes place in Cambodia and I don’t look like the characters in the story. Also, acting in a film with this theme and directing it is very tiring.” I told her that one of her sons is from Cambodia and can act in the film. She said: “If you look at the list of actors and directors, you will find that my son’s name is among the assistant directors. He is 16 years old and was by my side all the time helping me with the directing.”
Angelina's latest film is "AT FIRST THEY KILLED MY FATHER" which tells the story of the war in Cambodia through the eyes of a child who went through the horrors with a young brother and sister. I asked her how she dealt with the children so that they would play the roles throughout the film. She said, "In fact, this is not easy at all. They want to play all the time and not work on finishing the film. Therefore, you have to make acting for them like a game and respond to them. You should not pressure them too much. They are children first and foremost. I have six children, so this helped me deal with them."
I asked her about directing and acting and what the difference is in her opinion and why she entered the field of directing and its consequences, she said: “The actor’s work is limited to his performance only, it is a simple task for the director who must search for everything related to the film from the actors to the filming locations to the lighting to the story to everything related to the work from all sides, so the director’s task is greater than the actor’s task and more important, so I prefer directing because it gives me the ability to control all the details of the work.
I asked her, “With all these responsibilities and obstacles in your life, how do you find enough time to do your duties?” She said, “My life is full of many responsibilities, especially since last year (she divorced her husband about a year ago), work, and children. It seems to everyone that I have overcome all these obstacles, but in reality I feel that I am trying to continue my work and do my responsibilities day by day - and if you love your work, this makes the difficulties easier for you - and on the happy side, I am happy that I do not have cancer and that I have undergone preventive operations to avoid this cursed disease, but if it comes to me, I hope that it will be many years from today. Now peace of mind is very important to me and has a great impact on me psychologically, and my health is now the first priority for me.”
I asked her about her opinion on the current events taking place in Syria, Gaza and the areas witnessing wars. She said that these events are very painful and she feels it whenever she sees a picture of an innocent, miserable child in the midst of these conditions around her. We must think that what happened to this child could happen to any one of us. We must resist the causes that lead to famine and destruction.
I asked her about her life after the divorce and she interrupted me and said: “It is not a nice and painful life and I do not like it and it is not a life I wanted.” Her response was categorical that she was not happy with her new life as a single woman.
I told her that I heard that she is taking cooking lessons. Is this true? She said: “Yes, this is very true. I am learning to cook. It is an outlet for me in terms of my love for food and cooking. My children gather around me while I am cooking and discuss my cooking method. Some of them are even now giving me instructions on what I should improve in my cooking method. Some of them even boast that they cook better than me. I asked her if she had a cooking recipe that I could give to the readers. She said that she does not have any cooking recipe and that she does not follow recipes. Rather, she tries to do what comes to her mind while she is in the kitchen.
I asked her about the rose wine that she helped make, and she said that winemaking is a unique industry and that they are now working on producing a new type of wine. She said that its name, as far as I hear, is “Miraval,” but they might change the name when it is produced.
I asked her how she sees herself ten years from now and how she saw herself ten years ago. She said: “Ten years ago I did not imagine that I would be in the current situation in terms of family or work, or even that I would be a director. As for what my life will be like ten years from now, I do not know exactly what the future holds for me. My children will have grown up and are in university, and I hope so, but I do not imagine that they will have children, meaning that I will be a grandmother. The truth is that the future is not clear to me.”
Hollywood-George Doss