Angelina Jolie politely declined to answer a question about her and Brad Pitt’s ongoing divorce in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Speaking to reporter Rebecca Keegan at her $25 million Los Feliz home, the 49-year-old Oscar winner drew “clear boundaries” around a number of topics, including her split from Pitt and their 20-year-old son Pax’s recent near-fatal e-bike accident.
The Maleficent star explained to the publication that years ago in Hollywood, “you could have a messy private process and the work would speak for itself.”
“Now the relationship with the audience is different. I’m trying to get used to what I have to share,” she admitted after taking a long break from the industry.
When Keegan asked if it would be okay to ask “what the status of” her divorce is, the actress replied, “No.”
Angelina Jolie politely declined to answer a question about her and Brad Pitt’s ongoing divorce in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter; seen on August 29, 2024
She later openly said she had to stay in California until her and Pitt’s six children were all 18 years old.
The former couple have children Maddox (22), Pax (20), Zahara (19) and Shiloh (18) and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
‘I grew up in this city [Los Angeles]”I’m here because I have to be here for a divorce, but once they turn 18, I can leave,” she told THR.
The mother of six continued: “When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace and security. I have a home now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be … that humanity that I’ve found all over the world is not what I grew up with here.”
After her two youngest children are grown, Jolie said she wants to “spend a lot of time in Cambodia” and visit her “family wherever they are in the world.”
When asked who her best friends are and who she would call at 3am, the artist replied that she “doesn’t really have those kinds of relationships.”
“Maybe it’s losing your parent young. Maybe it works. Maybe it’s being someone who’s been betrayed a lot. I don’t have a lot of those warm, close relationships that I lean on,” she said. “But I have a few, and a few is enough.”
Speaking to reporter Rebecca Keegan at her $25 million Los Feliz home, the 49-year-old Oscar winner drew “clear boundaries” around a number of topics, including her split from Pitt and their 20-year-old son Pax’s recent near-fatal e-bike accident (pictured in 2015).
Jolie called Loung Ung one of her “best friends” and her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, who died in 2007.
“My mother was very close to me. I lost her. I’ve had a few friends over the years who weren’t there for my family when they needed it. I have a few people I trust.”
In 2016, Jolie began to do less film work, accepting only jobs that did not require long shoots, as she focused on her “healing” and the end of her marriage.
Reflecting on why she waited “so long” to act or direct, the star explained that she needed to be “home more” with her children.
“They’re a little older, they’re becoming more independent. I’m needed less and can go away for different periods of time. And they’re old enough to work with me. It’s a new season in our lives. I’m really excited that they’re coming into their own more and more every day,” she said of what made her feel ready to go back to work.
The former couple share Maddox, 22, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne; pictured in 2021
When asked if she has any writing rituals, Jolie says she usually writes “when everyone else is asleep” so she can concentrate.
Although she tends to keep her private life out of the spotlight, Jolie said that “one of the nicest things – maybe the only nice thing – about being a public figure” is interacting with “other people.”
“I realized that when I got into this business, and I was doing things like Gia or Girl, Interrupted , and I was expressing so much of my madness and my pain, when people connected to it, I felt less alone. So if someone would talk to me about having had breast cancer or losing a parent, I feel more deeply connected to another human being,” the actress explained.
Jolie added: “When you walk into a room full of people you don’t know but who very quickly have a lot in common because you’ve been on TV in their home somehow, or made their kids laugh or they know something personal, it’s a really nice thing.”
Jolie and Pitt have discussed the details of their divorce over the past eight years
Jolie and Pitt have been discussing the details of their divorce for eight years.
On Friday, a source close to Pitt said People that it is ‘quite shocking’ that the couple still ‘cannot find a resolution and finalize the divorce.’
“A major reason for their dissatisfaction before Angelina filed for divorce was their frequent arguments over the upbringing of their children,” the insider claimed.
The source pointed out that the stars “have always had different outlooks on life in general,” as she grew up in Hollywood as the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand and he had a normal childhood in Springfield, Missouri.
“It was the same with the kids,” the source explained. “Brad wanted a structured life for them with a set educational curriculum. Angie wanted them all to find themselves and figure out what excited them and what fueled their passion.”
Ultimately, Jolie’s approach to parenting won out and “the children are free-spirited, super-intelligent and artistic.”
“Brad is very proud,” the source made clear.