By the Sea trailer 1
The first trailer for By the Sea is released. The film is written and directed by Jolie and stars both Jolie and Pitt as a married couple on a miserable vacation.
Criticizes UNSC
Jolie criticizes U.N. Security Council for its lack of action in solving humanitarian crisis in Syria.
We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world’s inability to protect and defend the innocent.
Family steps in at premiere
Pitt, his parents, sons Pax and Maddox and daughter Shiloh represent Jolie at the Unbroken premiere while she takes the night off to deal with a bout of chicken pox.
Her spirits are high. A little spotted and a little itchy, but her spirits are high.
Maleficent
In this fantasy fairy tale directed by Robert Stromberg, Jolie plays a beautiful, pure-hearted sprite with stunning black wings, who, as a child, is betrayed by her friend, the future king of the humans. Seeking revenge she places a terrible curse on his newborn child. Co-starring Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Brenton Thwaites and Sam Riley. Asked if she thinks she was the perfect one for her role:
It is really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain. She was just my favorite as a little girl. I was terrified of her but I was really drawn to her. I loved her. There were some discussions about it before I got the part, and I got a phone call from my brother who said, ‘You got to get your name on the list for this!’
Makeup fail
Jolie suffers a makeup malfunction at the premiere of The Normal Heart in New York.
Kung Fu Panda 2
Jolie stars in the movie Kung Fu Panda 2 alongside Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, and David Cross. Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior while protecting The Furious Five. Po’s new life is threatened a villain, who plans to use a secret weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu.
It’s the film my kids love. And as I travel around the world it’s the film other kids talk to me about. It’s better than anything. It’s the best.
The Tourist
Jolie stars in the action thriller The Tourist. She plays a woman who deliberately crosses paths with her costar Johnny Depp to live a live of mystery and trouble. After dating Depp, Jolie finds herself playing cat and mouse with a man she starts to love. Other cast members include Paul Bettany and Rufus Sewell.
We wanted to make sure that she had a kind of sexiness and elegance, but also that she was fun, playful, and sweet. Instead of a big high slit, Colleen put a bow in the bum. It was very different than anything I’ve ever worn. It took me a while to get used to the heels and the gloves and how to hold the handbag.
Jane’s Journey
Directed by Lorenz Knauer, Jolie talks about the energy that Goodall devoted to saving our endangered planet in this documentary that chronicles Jane Goodall’s worldwide travels, personal footage from her childhood, and her charity work saving gorillas. Co-starring: Pierce Brosnan.
Sometimes, caught up in the moment, people promise to give their support but don’t, or can’t come through. That was not true with Angelina.
Salt
Jolie plays CIA officer Evelyn Salt in this thriller directed by Phillip Noyce. Salt is accused by a defector of being a Russian spy. With each attempt Salt makes to prove her innocence, her mentor, Winter, only grows more suspicious of her true motivations. The longer she eludes capture by ambitious CIA agent Peabody, the higher the stakes get. Co-starring Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor.
We spent a lot of time with different people who’d worked in the Russia House and the CIA, and I think the biggest note I took from them was how isolated and lonely they felt not being able to talk about their life and their work with anybody in their family, and what a sacrifice that is.
Changeling
Jolie plays Christine Collins in this drama directed by Clint Eastwood. In this true story, Collins is a grief-stricken mother who takes on the LAPD to her own detriment when it stubbornly tries to pass off an obvious impostor as her missing child, while also refusing to give up hope that she will find him one day. Co-Starring Colm Feore and Amy Ryan.
It was a very hard film for all of us to make but at the same time because it was a true story, and because this woman went through so much, it was also very inspiring.
Wanted
Jolie stars in the action movie Wanted, playing an assassin ready to stop anyone that gets in her way. Her character hates that people are killing for no reason but her only job in life is to kill. Jolie. Co-starring Morgan Freeman, James Mcvoy, Konstantin Khabensky.
Maybe this is Mrs. Smith after she killed Mr. Smith, went into depression, and got very, very, very moody. Fox is not happy, and she’s not easy to be around. She was interesting to me because she isn’t the love interest and she isn’t having fun with it like the Tomb Raider. She’s darker.
Kung Fu Panda
Jolie stars in the animated movie Kung Fu Panda. This movie tells a tale of a giant panda named Po who idoizes the Furious Five. After learning that the Viper, Crane, Monkey, Tigress, and Mantis is being trained by Shifu, Po decides he wants to become a kung fu master himself. Other cast members include Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Jackie Chan, and Lucy Liu.
I just look for, whether it be any project, something that I find about a character that I admire, that I like, that I think sends, you know, a good message, or something that’s got some strength to it. So I loved that in a film like this, that I knew my children would see, and my daughters would see, that the boys would think it was really cool and love the whole movie but that also my daughters would, of course, have a good role model as a girl.
Beowulf
Jolie plays Grendel’s mother in this action adventure directed by Robert Zemeckis. The warrior Beowulf must fight and defeat the monster Grendel who is terrorizing towns, and later, Grendel’s mother, who begins killing out of revenge. Co-starring Ray Winstone and Crispin Glover.
There are certain moments where I felt actually shy – and called home, just to explain that the fun movie that I had done that was digital animation was, in fact, a little different than [what] we expected.
A Mighty Heart
In this drama, directed by Michael Winterbottom, Jolie plays Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl. Co-starring: Dan Futterman and Irrfan Khan.
I was very worried. I’ve never been so nervous about anything. I work very hard but I’m very casual about it, it doesn’t keep me up at night but this one did. The night before shooting I was tossing and turning and imagining everything that could possibly go wrong. I felt bad that I was even assuming that I could play this woman that I respected so much and I felt humbled to a point of being unable to move.
The Good Shepherd
In this thriller, directed by Robert De Niro, Jolie plays Clover Russell. In 1939, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) is a young man with a bright future ahead of him. His life changes dramatically when he’s invited to join Skull and Bones. Through his Skull and Bones connections, Wilson meets Sam Murach (Alec Baldwin), a mysterious FBI agent who asks Wilson to investigate charges that Fredericks is a Nazi sympathizer working with the German government. Later, at a Skull and Bones party, Wilson is introduced to Clover Russell, the sister of one of his classmates and the daughter of a powerful politician; their one-night stand leaves Clover pregnant, and Wilson must leave the woman he loves, Laura (Tammy Blanchard), to wed Clover and give their child a name.
Actually that is the one thing that kept me grounded to her and connected to her, because there was so much about her I didn’t identify with. But her love and her commitment to her son and certainly, having lost her own family to this world of the CIA and now her husband And the fear that her son would get involved in this kind of dangerous, silent world and that becoming a reality, and how that would feel. So, yeah, in particular fighting for him – it was very personal.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Jolie stars in this romance-action film directed by Doug Liman, playing a hired assassin who falls in love and marries another assassin played by Brad Pitt. Working for two different firms, both of them are not aware of each other’s true profession until a contract has been put on their lives. The cast includes Vince Vaughn, Kerry Washington, and Adam Brody.
My favorite scene was the housefight.
Alexander
In this action adventure, directed by Oliver Stone, Jolie plays Olympias. The film takes a bold, honest look at Alexander’s life and his relationships with his mother, Olympias, his father Philip, his lifelong friend and battle commander Hephaistion, Roxane, his ambitious and beautiful wife, and his trusted general and confidant Ptolemy. Co-starring: Colin Farrell, Anthony Hopkins and Rosario Dawson.
It was probably the hardest thing Ive ever done. The complexity of the character… Was I going over the top? Was I making it real? Everything about her from the way that she walked to the way that she spoke. Everything about her had to be correct.
Taking Lives
Jolie plays a top FBI profiler in Taking Lives. Jolie decides to work with Canadian police to catch a serial killer. Jolie happens to fall in love with a mystery man only to find out he is the one doing the killings. She then fakes a pregnancy to lure her killer into her home. Other cast include Ethan Hawke, Oliver Martinez, and Kiefer Sutherland.
With this one, we studied a lot with the FBI and we tried to get into the mind of the serial killers, both the people playing the killers and for the cops studying them. We all had this kind of really dark crash course in what it’s like to think that way and to see real cases. It was quite shocking to see what they’re really like and how they’re not different from us. Sometimes they have wives and kids and nice houses… It’s strange.
The Cradle of Life
Jolie stars in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life. Croft is on a quest to find a box that was obtained by Alexander the Great, racing against time because she wants to obtain the box before it lands into the hands of Dr. Reiss. Other cast members include Ciaran Hinds and Gerald Butler.
Believe or not, I think it’s one of the hardest things I’ve ever done. For most people, if you had to sit in a corner and think about what makes you sad, and think about what haunts you, and what makes you angry, we could all probably get to that place, but if you had to stand front and center in front of a thousand people, really proud and confident and get them all to follow you out of the room, that’s hard. Do you know what I mean? So there’s this weird feeling that she’s positive and confident all the time that that was very difficult for me.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
Jolie plays Lara Croft, a young woman born into English wealth, who spends her days traveling the world searching for lost treasures. One day she stumbles upon an artifact that may give her clues about her deceased father. She embarks on the mission and is able to travel through time. Other cast members include Chris Barrie, Jon Voight, and Ian Glen.
This was a side of myself that I didn’t think was in me. But it wasn’t a surprise to people who know me. You spend so much time in your head as an actor, living in the dark, you forget to be free. And I’m the first person to be looking for what freedom means and to feel trapped and in a cage.