Angelina Jolie covers the new issue of People Magazine – this is their year-in-review, and I guess Angelina is their person of the year. Makes sense. For the honor, Angelina gave People an interview – go here to read. There’s nothing really new there, just the acknowledgement by Jolie that she’s now the mother of a teenager (Maddox). There are also some bits and bobs of Angelina Jolie news, mostly video clips from Angelina’s press junket. The thing about Angelina is that she’s good about giving “different” quotes to different outlets, but once you skim the surface of the quotes, it’s all pretty much the same thing (and none of it is about Scott Rudin!). So, basically, only Brangeloonies need apply here, because some of this stuff we’ve heard before in other interviews. Some various stories:
*Did you know the Evangelical community (in America) is very interested in this film? Many Evangelicals loved Laura Hillenbrand’s book because she detailed Louis Zamperini’s conversion as a born-again Christian. Very early on in the filmmaking process, the studio (and Angelina) decided to jettison Louis’s conversion from the story though, and the film apparently ends pretty quickly after WWII. I always assumed that was purely a storytelling decision: the story of Zamperini is more interesting and film-friendly without his post-war PTSD and conversion. Still, the Evangelicals are already bitching.
*Interestingly enough, Angelina became very close to Louis’s (now adult) children. Louis’s daughter Cynthia Garris has been telling people that Angelina became very comfortable with talking about God and heaven and prayer during her friendship with Louis. Cynthia even says that Angelina prayed for good weather during filming!
*Angelina has an interview with Extra, which you can see here. She was asked about her career as a director and she says: “I love telling stories. I’m not motivated to have a big career as a director. I’m motivated to get the chance to tell these kinds of stories. So, if they come and I get the opportunity, I would love to.” She also talks about the nature of war and how she didn’t want to make a film that RAH RAH AMERICA because “There is nothing clean like that in war ever. There are casualties on both sides and suffering on both sides, so it wasn’t to judge history, it was to look at these men and their experiences. In the end, Louis’ relationship with Japan was actually quite a beautiful one.”
*Jolie did an interview with Entertainment Tonight a few nights ago – go here to see. She talks about working on Unbroken while Brad worked on Fury and how that was new for them, working apart. She comes close to crying when she talks about Louis Zamperini and then Jack O’Connell and Miyavi joke about how she is as a boss.
*Here’s a clip of Angelina with Tom Brokaw, talking about whether she would really run for political office. Her answer is much the same as her Vanity Fair interview: “It’s not something I’m actively seeking at this moment… if I found that I could be useful, I would consider it.”
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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