Angelina Jolie Urges Aid For Pakistan's Flood Victims

Angelina Jolie says it's vital that people help Pakistan's flood victims and not surrender to compassion fatigue.

The floods have displaced 20 million people, but donations are below those for catastrophes like the Haitian earthquake or the Asian tsunami.

Jolie said she understood that "it is getting hard for people – they see Haiti, they see these other events ... and they get exhausted by the time another big one rolls around."

But she said Pakistanis face "mass death, mass displacement, and this situation is going to get worse."
Jolie has visited Haiti, Iraq and other countries as a U.N. goodwill ambassador.

The star says she might visit Pakistan once "the cameras go away."

Jolie spoke Monday at the London premiere of her spy thriller "Salt."

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Angelina Jolie tones down some of her sexuality to play the action hero role, did all her own stunts while filming Salt and nearly ended up in hospital.

ANGELINA JOLIE got a kick out of doing the stunts for new film Salt – even though she nearly ended up in hospital.

The adrenaline junkie star performed tricks including jumping from a motorway bridge on to a speeding truck and diving from a helicopter as agent Evelyn Salt.

But she was left scarred and needing medical treatment when she was told to burst through a door, roll over the ground and fire a gun.

Angelina, 35, says: “It was first thing in the morning and I thought ‘This is a piece of cake.’ So I jumped inside, rolled over and smashed into a ledge.

“I got this gash between my eyebrows, just under an inch long.

“The nurse put gauze on but I was pretty dizzy and everyone was getting paranoid about it. I was feeling nauseous too and I had trouble walking for a few seconds.

“I had all these weird signs of a concussion so they sent me for an MRI scan. That was all clear so they put some of those tiny stitches over it and bandaged me up. I went back to work later that same day.

“Towards the end of the film my character has so much blood and cuts, it blended in – just one more thing on my face. And it’s left a tiny scar.

“You pick up scars on your body over the years and I don’t mind them. It’s character and it’s part of life.” Angelina’s CIA character goes on the run after being accused of being a spy. The action thriller was originally for a male star but Angelina turned it on its head as a female super-spy.

“In so many spy films, women are femmes fatales,” she says. “We wanted to avoid that. My character doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. It’s the roughest I’ve looked. When we fight it gets ugly. Somebody breaks my nose. She kicks, she uses her elbows, she fights to survive.”

But Angelina reckons she can get carried away, putting herself at risk.

She says: “Doing a few stunts is a great part of the job – it’s wonderful therapy. I wasn’t scared.

“But I am fearless to the point of stupidity sometimes. Maybe I should have a bit more fear.”

The beauty is one half of Hollywood’s premier power couple with partner Brad Pitt, 46. But she admits she has to work at keeping the relationship fresh.

After winning a case against a newspaper which said their relationship was on the rocks, Angelina stresses how happy they are.

“We schedule date nights,” she laughs. “You have to with children.

“We’ll ask a babysitter to spend the night so we can go out but sometimes we just go to another part of the house. I feel fortunate to have a relationship where I feel safe enough to imagine growing old together.”

The couple’s six kids – adopted Maddox, nine, Pax, six, and Zahara, five, and their biological children, two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne and daughter Shiloh, four – have also been in the headlines, thanks to Shiloh’s fondness for dressing like a boy.

But Angelina insists she is just letting her girl be herself.

“It’s not my choice,” she says. “I have a very strong-willed four-year-old who tells me what she wants to be and I let her. I think kids should express themselves.”

And it’s clear that the couple are devoted to their kids.

Brad was supposed to have a small role in Salt but it never happened.

“He was watching the kids that day and that’s always more important,” says Angelina. “They take priority.”

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A pinch of ‘Salt’ and a generous dash of Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie first read the script for Salt just after she had given birth to her much-adored twins, Vivienne and Knox. As she points out, it was rather difficult to imagine making an action-thriller which would involve high-octane stunts—most performed by Jolie herself—including gritty fight sequences, edging along a tiny ledge 12 stories high, and leaping on to moving cars, when your focus is on caring for your newborn babies.

But then, the Oscar-winning actress clearly loves a challenge. “I do like making movies like this, and I loved making this one,” she smiles. “When they first called me about Salt, I had just had the twins and I was at home in my nightgown feeling very soft and maternal.

“I remember I was with them in my bedroom, you know as you do in the early weeks when you’ve just had a baby, and I flipped through the script and it was all about getting out there and attacking and being very physical and I did feel really funny, in my nightgown in my bedroom, thinking, ‘If I can do this, it would be a nice balance.’ You know, from being soft and Mommy and then going back to work and doing this hard, physical role. It seemed like a real challenge. And I like that.”

The origins of the project date back even further. Jolie recalls a meeting with Amy Pascal, cochairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment, and chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group, a few years back when among other projects they discussed the new James Bond movie Casino Royale.

“We had this lovely, playful talk about the fact that I would have preferred to have played Bond,” she laughs. “I think they were thinking that maybe I could play the girl in the movie but actually, I was pregnant at the time and I couldn’t have done it. And it wasn’t right for me—the people they cast in Casino Royale were perfect for it.

“But, I guess, the idea stuck with Amy because years later she called me and said, ‘I think I’ve found it....’” The “it” in question was Salt, a contemporary spy thriller originally written for a male actor. (That would be Tom Cruise.) Pascal reasoned—and Jolie agreed—that the script could skilfully be adapted to make the protagonist, a CIA agent accused of being a sleeper spy for the Russians, into a female lead.

Indeed, for Jolie the film was exactly what she was looking for and ticked all the boxes—strong characters played by an expert band of actors (including Liev Schreiber and Chiwetel Ejiofor) with dynamic action sequences that are very much a part of a compelling story directed by a filmmaker, Phillip Noyce, that she admires and had worked with successfully before on The Bone Collector.

“With Salt, the writers didn’t necessarily sit down and think, ‘What would a woman do in this situation?’ They just thought, ‘What would a CIA agent do?’ And I think that immediately made it one of the better roles I’ve read and something that was much more challenging to do.”

Often, women in spy films have been little more than beautiful adornments to the story. Not so with Salt. “Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that. She’s just Salt. It’s not about being a female and she certainly doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything in the film,” says Jolie.

“In fact, in many ways it’s the roughest I’ve looked at a certain stage because when you fight it gets ugly, and if somebody breaks your nose it’s not pretty.”

When Evelyn Salt, a veteran CIA operative, is accused of being a sleeper spy for a foreign power,  she has to fight to prove her innocence. And the first priority is to evade capture and go on the run. She’s a woman alone designated as an enemy of the state and the colleagues she has worked with for years are now out to catch her.

For Jolie, playing an ambiguous character who might not be who she claims to be was a whole lot of fun. She loved the fact that the audience will be on the edge of their seats wondering if Salt is a loyal CIA agent or, in fact, she could really be a mole, deep under cover for the enemy.

“I think you go through the film, if we have done our job right, not being sure of who she is and when you think you are sure of who she is, maybe even that is different than you thought it was.

“I like that where you don’t quite know what’s going on. And hopefully we made it smart enough and respected the audience’s intelligence and tried to make it complicated. I think they will like it.”

Jolie, along with stunt coordinator Simon Crane and her stunt double Eunice Huthart—who have both collaborated successfully with the actress on previous films including Tomb Raider and Mr. and Mrs. Smith—developed a distinctive style of fighting and developed the spectacular stunts seen in the film.

“We talked a lot about the way she fights,” she says. “And the thing that was maybe the least obvious for a woman became the thing that we relied on which is that she’s mean. Not flashy, not gymnastic, not inventive—she’s just mean when it comes down to it.”

She embraced the considerable physical challenges that presented themselves during filming and, wherever possible, did the action scenes herself—including a hair-raising sequence where she jumps from a bridge on to a moving car and climbs out on to the ledge of a building 12 stories up.

“I get a kick out of it. I love that kind of thing. And the thing is that Simon and Eunice both know me so well so when they set a stunt, they have me in mind and they know what I can do.

“There are a few things, when you look closely at the film, that involve heights or something moving fast and those are two things that I’m very comfortable with. “And the people that know you know the things that you love doing and they come up with things like climbing outside of a building on a ledge really high up, or jumping off a bridge. They know that’s where I’m comfortable and they will adjust stunts to the things that I love instead of just randomly throwing anything at me.”

Her willingness to tackle as much as possible did mean that she picked up one rather nasty injury. Filming a sequence for the end of the movie, she was required to burst into a room under fire, roll across the floor and fire her own weapon.

“It was first thing in the morning and I thought, ‘This is a piece of cake,’” she recalls. “I jumped inside shooting and somehow I went right into this ledge that was about a foot off the floor and it knocked me right between the eyes and cut me open.”

After some on-set treatment, Jolie was taken to hospital for a checkup. “It was fine. I had a cut on my head and they covered it up with a patch. And I was back shooting stunts that day. And it’s funny because in the later scenes my nose is broken and I’m pretty cut up, so we didn’t even have to cover it up—it blended right in.”

Jolie met several real women CIA operatives and it gave her invaluable insight into women who, essentially, have to live secret lives and dare not reveal the true nature of the highly dangerous work they do.

“The two women I met were sweet-looking, smallish-framed, blue-eyed, blonde-haired, and looked like they would be running the little store in the High Street or maybe teaching in Ohio,” she says.  “But once you started talking to them, you could see how these women navigated themselves through this incredibly demanding world and how dangerous it was. And they are tough, tough women.

“And one of the things they told me was that as women they had such difficulty dealing with relationships; they said the hardest thing is to be in a job where you can’t talk about anything that is happening with your husband.”

The film, she says, is grounded in that kind of detailed reality. And even the premise that a deeply buried sleeper could exist within the ranks of the CIA is not so far-fetched. Evelyn Salt is forced to go on the run to prove her innocence when a defector alleges that she’s a mole who will trigger “Day X”—the day when Russian sleeper spies are activated to begin a war against the United States.

Day X is still a controversial topic inside the CIA, says Jolie. Some firmly believe that the theory is real, while others dismiss it as a myth.

“But there are CIA agents that do believe that there are sleepers. And when you think about it, there have been in the past and it is a very strong tool to use if you want to infiltrate an organization. So you do wonder.” Jolie was delighted to be reunited with director Phillip Noyce, some 10 years after they made The Bone Collector together. They picked up right where they left off, she says.

“We had an immediate communication. Phillip is somebody who understands action but he is also somebody who understands drama and emotion and real people and subtleties and nuance and character. He is one of those rare directors who instinctively knows that balance very well. I was relieved when I knew Phillip was directing the film because I knew he could do it.”

Her costars, too, were a “joy” to work with, she says. “I think the world of both of them. You know, we could all have approached this as a summer movie and kind of relaxed but nobody did that. We took it as a serious endeavor and we really worked hard.”

There was, though, time for some fun. Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt are the extremely proud parents of six young children: Maddox, 8, Pax, 5, Zahara, 4, Shiloh, 3, and twins Vivienne and Knox, who turned two in July.

“Brad and I take turns to make films,” says Jolie. “So if I’m working, he’s not and vice versa. When I made Salt it was a very happy time for all of us. The older children would come on set and see some of the rigs and they just want to get on them—so they would get hooked up to things and fly across the stage.

“They did a lot of that when they came to visit. They would play with fake blood and get pretend cuts and bruises from the makeup department and they had a lot of fun. We all did.”

The daughter of French actress Marcheline Betrand and Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, throughout her career, Jolie, 34, has enjoyed switching genres from action—playing the popular computer-game heroine in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and its sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith—to more serious drama including Beyond Borders and, more recently, the highly acclaimed A Mighty Heart in which she played the widow of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl.

Her work as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees started after first visiting Cambodia, where she partly filmed the first Tomb Raider. Since then, she has traveled to more than 30 countries, including many dangerous regions, highlighting the plight of refugees. She has also funded several humanitarian projects in Asia and Africa. She is also currently a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt "Always Makes Me Feel Sexy and Desirable"

A day after she flashed a lot of leg in a thigh-high Versace slit dress, Angelina Jolie covered up in a black spaghetti strap dress at a Salt press conference Wednesday in Seoul, South Korea.

"I think you feel sexy if you live an honest and bold life," she told reporters, according to the Korea Herald. "Maybe living life the way I've always lived it had something to do with that, but really, what makes me feel sexy is Brad. He always makes me feel sexy and desirable."

Jolie, 35, also praised Pitt, 46, for his parenting skills.

He's the reasons she's able to balance work and family life so well, she noted.


"I'm fortunate enough to work just a few months out of the year, and I have the luxury of having Brad help out as well," she said. "I have so much respect for everyday parents. For me and the best thing to do for myself is to combine my work and my children as much as possible."

She added that her kids are even accompanying her while she tours the world to promote Salt.

"My children are here [in Korea] enjoying their time, enjoying their Korean breakfast, watching baseball over their hotel windows, and playing in the swimming pool," she said.

During the press conference, Jolie also suggested there could be a Salt sequel.

"We're leaving it up to the fans," she said. "If the people want another one, certainly we'll give it to them."

The Oscar-winning actress famously replaced Tom Cruise in the movie about a CIA officer falsely accused of being a Russian agent.

Said Jolie, "I would love to revisit the role because we think there’s a lot more to the story. But we don't know where we'll go yet. We've talked about more exotic locations for one."

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Angelina Jolie: Brad Pitt Is a "Wonderful Father"

They say behind every great man is a great woman. Angelina Jolie tells a different story.

"Brad is the word that makes it possible," said the Salt star during a Tokyo press conference when asked how she's able to balance both a career and raise a family of six kids.

"He's just a wonderful father," she adds.


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Angelina Jolie Stuns in Cleavage-Baring Red-Hot Dress at Moscow Salt Premiere

Angelina Jolie touched down in windy Moscow, Russia on Sunday for the premiere of Salt -- and her super sexy dress matched the red carpet.

The 35-year-old star wowed the crowd in a dramatic, cleavage-bearing Atelier Versace red halter neck chiffon gown with draped train and draped bust. For last week's L.A. premiere of the film, Jolie favored a black, sequined mini-dress by Armani. In Salt, the mom of six plays a CIA agent falsely accused of being a Russian spy.


The well-reviewed action flick had a strong first weekend in the U.S., nabbing an estimated $36.5 million in box office receipts. But the number one movie of the weekend was Leonardo DiCaprio's Inception, which garnered $43.5 million in its second weekend out.

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Angelina Jolie's accident on the set during Salt movie shooting

Angelina Jolie was left with a real headache during the filming of Salt.

The Changeling star suffered a bloodied injury following an accident on the set of the spy thriller, and had to go to hospital to have it looked at.

Director Phillip Noyce revealed to E! Online: "She took a dive with all the velocity that she needed to, but there was a TV monitor in her way and she collided with it and it hit her between her eyes. That's a moment when you don't know what to do or think until you get the report from the hospital. You know, you hit yourself right there and it looks like nothing but it could be something much worse."

The filmmaker wasn't sure if she had to be stitched up.

"I'm not sure if she got stitches. When she came back, the make-up artist had done such a good job covering it up," he added.

Angelina previously admitted her injury interrupted shooting.

She told US talk show Nightline: "I returned the next day with this big bandage on my head, they had to paint it (the bandage) out. I tried really hard to do my fight scenes and a few minutes in, they were like, 'You're really not fighting very well,' so they sent me home."

Phillip also said Angelina and partner Brad Pitt's six children visited the set often, but added: "But she never let the outside get in the way of the work. She's totally focused."

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Jon Voight Gushes About Daughter Angelina Jolie: 'That's My Girl!'

After many years estranged, it appears as though the father/daughter relationship between Jon Voight and Angelina Jolie is becoming stronger by the day. The veteran Hollywood actor/director was one of the first to arrive on the red carpet for the Hollywood premiere of Jolie’s new action blockbuster “Salt” on Monday night – and was the picture of a doting dad.

“Angelina is like a circus performer in some way, she enjoys (doing her own stunts.) She’s athletic and she enjoys expressing her athleticism,” Voight told us with a big smile. “Sometimes I worry that it’s not wise (doing her own stunts) but she has her stunt girls that are very good, so I’m hoping that she doesn’t compete with them.”

At one point Voight turned around to examine the electrifying movie poster, which featured only Jolie’s name and a close-up of her steely, yet sexy glare.

“That’s my girl,” he said proudly.

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In addition to her dad, Jolie brought partner Brad Pitt and their children to the star-studded premiere (Pitt skipped the press line, claiming that it was his “night off.”) But while Jolie is proud of her work in the action flick, she isn't quite ready to let her young kids watch the violent film.

“I can’t show my kids movies where people are trying to kill me. They saw some of the clips and were a little disturbed by it. There was one part where somebody was tying my feet up and they got upset and didn’t like it,” Jolie explained. “But when they're older I think my kids are going to love this.  Mad (Maddox, her 8-year-old son) really wants to see it but he's just not ready yet.  He's not old enough yet.”

And while the thrill-seeking, Oscar-winning actress was completely comfortable hanging from 11-story buildings and jumping from one moving truck to the next while filming “Salt,” which centers around the quest to capture a CIA agent suspected of being a Russian spy, there is one part of life that ignites her inner fear.

“There is nothing I‘m afraid to do on camera, I'm only afraid of something happening to people I love,” Jolie said simply.

And despite being heralded as one of the sexiest women in the world, there was actually a day on-set in which the male crew members didn’t want to be by her side. Why? She was dressed (very convincingly, mind you) as a man.

“It was odd, because then you actually start to really think about ‘what is my internal man?’ You get really particular about how he does his hair, or what kind of an outfit he would wear, it is bizarre,” Jolie said of the experience. “When I dressed up in him and walked on set for the first time, the crew was so uncomfortable.  So uncomfortable.  The guys didn't want to stand near me, they just kept staring at me (as if to say) ‘stay away from me.’”

But while she may be adept at playing a man, rumor has it that Jolie is in competition with Catherine Zeta-Jones to play feminine Hollywood icon Elizabeth Taylor in an upcoming biopic of the legend’s life. Only problem? It was news to Jolie.

“I have never heard that before,” she added. “I don’t think anybody that can be better than Elizabeth Taylor, at being Elizabeth Taylor."

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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt at Salt Premiere joined by father Jon Voight and brother James Haven (photos)

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt added more than a dash of star power to Monday night's Los Angeles premiere of Jolie's new spy thriller, Salt.

Half of Hollywood Boulevard was shut down, and hundreds of fans erupted in pandemonium as the couple arrived at Grauman's Chinese Theatre – Jolie in an Emporio Armani dress and Ferragamo shoes – and greeted fans before heading inside for the screening.

At the afterparty, the couple held court in a special area, flanked by a phalanx of security, in the middle of Hollywood & Highland's Grand Ballroom. One guest of honor was Jolie's father, Oscar winner Jon Voight, 71, who looked thrilled as Pitt chatted affectionately with him throughout the evening and he shared a hug with his daughter.

The inner circle got a boost of energy when they were joined by Quinton Aaron, 25, the actor who played Michael, the son of Sandra Bullock's character, in The Blind Side. Both Jolie, 35, and Pitt, 46, spent time enthusiastically chatting with him, and Aaron became the life of the afterparty, taking dozens of photos with fans who approached him.

A few feet away from the Jolie-Pitts was another special area set up for costar Liev Schreiber and his partner, Naomi Watts. Schreiber, 42, who has two small boys with Watts, told PEOPLE that he bonded with Jolie over parenting during the shoot.

"I think we're both in that place with our kids where they're really amazing, right around 3 years old, when all the language starts to come out of them," Schreiber said. "It's a very exciting period in someone's life, both the child's and the parent's, and it was fun to bond over that."

Jolie and Pitt left at around 11 p.m. after another big day in their hectic lives.

"What's amazing about [Jolie] is the amount of things going on in her life and how calm she is in the middle of them," producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told PEOPLE. "She's an unbelievably committed mom, and she's an unbelievably committed actress, and on human rights ... it's a whirlwind going on around her, and in the middle of it she's as calm as can be."

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Angelina Jolie talks about new movie CIA action thriller 'Salt'

She's not very big, no bulging biceps, and she does not have a demonic look in her eyes as some on Team Jennifer might want you to believe.

Sitting with Jolie in a suite at the Georgetown Ritz-Carlton, in Washington, D.C., the only thing that would lead you to think that you were not interviewing an up-and-coming businesswoman or a Ferragamo-clad suburban mom would be the no-nonsense muscle standing by the door.

Jolie was in Washington two weekends ago to promote her new action thriller, "Salt" (opening Friday), and it's a testament to how much the film means to her and Sony Pictures (possible franchise?) that the normally press-shy actress did roundtable interviews (no blood oath necessary) and select one-on-ones. She should talk more often - far from being some moody weirdo, Jolie was affable and engaged, funny and smart.

While reporters were asked to keep personal questions to a minimum (translation: Don't ask about her life partner, actor Brad Pitt , their kids or Pitt's ex-wife Jennifer Aniston or we'll toss you into the Potomac), Jolie was happy to volunteer that she's on mommy duty "because Brad is working" and that the previous night she'd stayed back at the hotel playing with Play-Doh with two of her girls. Regarding all the nonsense written about her, she shrugged.

"I pay no attention to it," she said. "I go straight to news when I'm online and don't go to the grocery store."

As for "Salt," Jolie says that it's Hollywood's first attempt to place a female action hero in a real-world setting - less Lara Croft, more Jason Bourne.

Veteran producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura ("Transformers") said of the actress that "nobody else has the thing that she has. I can't think of anyone else who could make this [movie] on this scale."

Jolie plays CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who's accused of being a Russian mole, and the movie's twisty plot - is she or isn't she? - takes her on a series of chases and through a variety of teeth-rattling fight scenes that are a testament to her charisma, conditioning and the stunt coordination of Simon Crane, who's been working with Jolie for a decade.

"He's really a genius," she said of Crane, stressing how much time he put into devising fight scenes that would make her look able to beat up men 100 pounds heavier.

"She's faster, quicker, she can jump on things," Jolie said. "Everything had to be possible."

It could be crazy, she added with a smile, "but not impossible."

Two other facets of the film that Jolie felt strongly about were that it had to be realistic (within its Hollywood summer- popcorn-movie context) and, although the script had originally been written for Tom Cruise, she didn't want it turned into "a girl movie."

Although Jolie's big, pouty lips and intense eyes could probably broker Mideast peace, Salt wouldn't use sex appeal to disarm men, a la Mata Hari. "She's better than that," Jolie said.

In fact, she added, they made the script darker and meaner.

Another change was that Salt's child, who was a part of the movie when the spy was a man, was taken out when Salt became a woman.

"I just thought that a woman in that position would not have a child," she said. "The child would cling and the audience would become fixated on her going back for the child."

Jolie said that what intrigued her about Salt was the duplicity of her secret agent's character. "I liked that she was neither a good guy or a bad guy," she said.

She also liked learning about real-life spies - she does travel to enough global hot spots to be one. Jolie worked closely with former CIA agent Melissa Mahle, who served as a consultant on the film, and the actress said, "I spent a lot of time with people of Russia House. The thing I found most interesting was how isolated and lonely they felt about not being able to talk about their life and work with their families."

As for shooting on location in the nation's capital, Jolie said that it was exhilarating. "You feel the power of things that get done," she said, "and the frustration of things that don't get done."

"Salt" director Phillip Noyce ("Dead Calm," "Patriot Games," "A Clear and Present Danger") worked with Jolie 10 years ago on "The Bone Collector" and said that her transformation has been incredible.

"Then she was an accomplished actress but was still finding herself," he said. "She was a wallflower when she came to my house for a barbecue. Now she has things to teach me, especially in the area of stunts.

"And success has given her even more fearlessness."

Jolie's co-star Liev Schreiber ("The Manchurian Candidate"), however, did have a little fear.

"I met her years ago at Sundance," Schreiber said. "But I get nervous around famous people and beautiful women, so this was like a double whammy for me."

Schreiber said that the pair bonded over kids (Schreiber has two sons under age 3), teething and timeouts, and all the sexual tension went out of the room.

Schreiber was also able to help Jolie in a scene in which she disguises herself as a male military officer. Both he and co-star Chiwetel Ejiofor have cross-dressed in movies.

"Every lead in this movie has cross-dressed," Jolie said, laughing.

The actress thought that she was quite suave as a man but said that the cast couldn't talk with her when she put on her man-wig and uniform.

It was on that day of shooting that Brad Pitt decided to visit the set. Jolie told him that she was going to look like a man but she said that Pitt told her, "It won't bother me, it's you."

"Brad came in and I was half-woman, half man," she said, "and he was really creeped out."

So, does Jolie see herself kicking butt in 20 to 30 years when she's the age of male action stars Bruce Willis , Sylvester Stallone and Harrison Ford?

"No," she said, laughing, "I'll be playing with the grandkids."

When it's her next turn to work, Jolie is fascinated about the possibility of playing Cleopatra, but there isn't a script yet.

No hurries. The once-wild child has grown up, she's more grounded and more comfortable in her own skin - a mother first.

"I've had such a wonderful career," she said, "I don't need to make another movie."






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Angelina Jolie Confirmed to Attend Comic Con 2010 at San Diego

Angelina Jolie will indeed make an appearance at Comic-Con International this week in San Diego, hyping her new spy-thriller, Salt.

Jolie will take the stage as part of Sony Pictures' Hall H presentation on Thursday. But what does this mean for Brangelina fans? Whether Brad Pitt will show is still up in the air. The animated Megamind, featuring voice work from Pitt, is also set to make its Comic-Con splash on Thursday, but so far, only costars Will Ferrell, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill are confirmed to appear.



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Angelina Jolie's tattoo in her thigh (photo)

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has got a new tattoo on her thigh.

An interview for MTV News asked Jolie about the new mark during a junket for “Salt” in Washington Friday (July 9). It’s for Brad,” she says, declining to elaborate.


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Angelina Jolie's partner Brad Pitt almost to cameo in Salt movie

The Salt star's low-key swing through the nation's capital over the weekend to do a handful of interviews for the new spy thriller avoided the crush and fervor of paparazzi and lookee-loos that blustered around the film's shoot here last year.

Chase scenes for the movie, which opens July 23, were filmed with barricades holding hundreds of fans and photographers at bay just out of camera view. Jolie plays the title character, CIA operative Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after accusations that she is a Russian sleeper agent.

"Salt and I were doing the same thing," she jokes. "Just trying to keep our heads down and get outta there."

In an interview Saturday, she also clarified recent remarks that she planned to give up acting someday. Jolie, 35, said she has no immediate plans to retire.

"I like to be very busy. I'm kind of energized. I don't sit down well," she says. "In the years to come, it's not that I'm retiring. There'll just be less films at some point.

"And I'd love to do other things. I'd love to live in Africa for six months and fly planes. I'd love to see what else there is to do. And artistically, I'm sure there are other things to do."

Salt is her first film since 2008's Changeling and the birth of her twins, Knox and Vivienne, who turn 2 today. Being a mom of six with Brad Pitt made getting back to gunslinging and fistfighting — often clinging to the side of a building or leaping from a balcony toward a stone floor — harder than she expected.

"I had a moment my first day, because I hadn't worked for a year and a half and I'd been home and had babies," says the actress, who is far more soft-spoken and warm than her tough screen alter egos. "I did my first day back and I thought, 'What am I doing? I'm somebody's mother!' "

The little ones aren't shocked to see her play-acting on such grand scales, she says. "I met Brad doing stunts together (on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith), so we're kind of that family," she says. "It's almost expected for Mom to go out and do something like that."

Part of the reason for her relatively quiet visit was keeping the strike team small. The whole family didn't join her — only her daughters Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4, and they stayed out of sight.

Jolie and Pitt try to film movies at separate times, so one of them is home with the children. When traveling, it's a chance for special attention, she says. "For example, (the four older children) all came with me to Cancun, and then I came back and spent a lot of time with the babies, because they couldn't come. Then the girls came to D.C. as a girls' trip. And the boys (Pax, 6, and Maddox, 8) are having special boy-time with Dad" back in Los Angeles.

That means the couple aren't likely to co-star again, though she wanted Pitt to do a cameo in Salt. Even though it would have been a short scene, the stunt work would have required too much time commitment, so he ended up with babysitting duties.

"He was almost going to be the motorcycle guy that I knocked down, and then he'd call me a bad name," she says, laughing. "But he was with the kids that day, and we couldn't work it out."

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Angelina Jolie talks her biggest role in Life of being a Mother and about her movie Salt

You said in an article that you are planning to give up acting to spend more time with the kids.
I plan to cut back on acting at some point in my life as I want to do other things.
I love acting but I will make fewer films in future. You took the role right after giving birth to Vivienne and Knox.

Was it tough to pull yourself away from a mother’s role and into an action one?
Those who have just had children will understand that it’s nice to have an excuse to get out of bed and back in action, what with pregnancy and all. I was doing an action scene on a freeway where my character was being chased and I found myself thinking: “I don’t belong here. I’m somebody’s mom. They got the wrong person”.
Just two weeks earlier I was at home feeding the babies.

Did they get to join you on the set?
I was lucky to work five days a week. I spent time with them during breakfast and dinner. They also joined me for lunch. When I work, they spend more time with their father. Brad is such a great dad. However, I am home with them most of the time.
I only work between eight and 14 weeks a year.

Are they excited about what mommy is doing?
They see me do a cartwheel and think that’s extraordinary! I can’t be more cool — to them I am just mommy. When they’re on set and see me doing stunts, they understand how complicated the film-making process is.

Did you allow stunt co-coordinator Simon Crane (whom Jolie has worked with in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and Mr & Mrs Smith) to push you around?
I call him Dr Crane. He was always saying “suffer...be ready to suffer”.
He knows I love heights so there were lots of action sequences involving heights.
He also kept pushing me where the fights scenes were concerned.

Where does your fearlessness come from? Were you always the kid who jumped off anything?
I was and now I have those fearless kids — Pax and Shiloh.

How do you find action adventure in real life?
I fly planes, ride bikes with Brad and travel to uncharted territories. But the greatest adventure of all is having children. Our kids are very much a part of everything we do.

Did you always have strong role models in your life?
I had a very strong mother. (Jolie’s mother was the late actress Marcheline Bertrand who died in 2007). She always called herself Marshmallow. She was the softest person in the world and could never yell at me without laughing. She was the kindest and most loving person I had ever known in my life and her faith and integrity were so strong they were unbreakable. I now live with three very strong women — my daughters Zahara, Shiloh and Vivienne.

What was it like losing your mother?
It will never heal. Somebody said to me recently ‘you will never get over it and you will never want to.’

The role of Salt was originally written for a male actor. Does this mean gender roles don’t apply in Hollywood anymore?
It will always matter. I’ve played lots of strong female characters but they were often set in some kind of fantasy world so my experience may differ from other actresses.

Which historical figure would you want to play?
I think it’s already been made known — Cleopatra. She was misunderstood and her life story was written wrongly. I always thought her life was very glamorous.
Then I read her story and learnt a different side to her — that she was a mother, leader and an intellect who spoke five languages! Her upbringing also reflected her relationship with Rome — all that is much more interesting than what she was summed up to be.

Would you play it differently than the version portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor?
Yes, but I could never be as lovely as she was. We are trying to uncover the truth about her as a leader and not just a sex symbol which she really wasn’t — she didn’t have many lovers, may be only two and they’re men she had children with.

How much creative control did you have over your character (rumour has it that Tom Cruise was originally approached to play the part)?
We all worked together — the writers and actors. Everybody had an opinion. I had my own views about the character but I didn’t decide on anything that other people didn’t agree. The last time you worked with Noyce was 11 years ago.

Do you think the girl in The Bone Collector knew what she was doing compared to the one in Salt?
I don’t know. I have to watch that movie again and I will tell you (laughs). I only play characters I can identify with. Maybe you can compare the two characters and see a similarity. In The Bone Collector, I play a rookie cop who’s way out of her depth in solving murder cases. In Salt, I play a tough agent who knows who she is and what she is doing.

How difficult is it to internalise deep characters and then switch back to being a mommy?
I am not one of those actors who has to walk around in character all the time. If the subject matter is dark, I tend to giggle a lot — it’s like an emotional release.

You mentioned that shooting the interrogation scene with Polish actor Daniel Olbrychski (as the defected Russian spy Vassily Orlov) was tough because he stayed in character even when the camera stopped rolling.
After a heavy scene like that, most of us just got up and walked away. I like to switch off and be myself again. But for that particular scene, I had to stay in character even during breaks. We talked about the scene and our characters and Daniel was just beautifully “heavy” and “deep”. To some extent I think the experience helped develop my character. It’s nice to stay in character sometimes, but I can’t do it every time.

In an interview, you mentioned that Shiloh is trying to find her identity, just like you did when you were growing up.How would you prevent your daughter from experiencing the dark period you went through?
Most people find their teenage years and early adulthood difficult because they don’t know where they fit in and how useful they can be to the world. They are plagued with questions and they feel that the world doesn’t given them much answers.
I adapted when I got older and started to travel. I visited places where people were suffering and learnt so much from the experiences. Most importantly, I felt ashamed of being sad because I was actually very fortunate. The more I travel, the more excited I am about life and its possibilities. I hope to raise my children in such a way so that they are exposed to many of life’s experiences.

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Angelina Jolie confirmed to attend Comic-Con 2010

At least one half of Hollywood's most famous couple will be gracing Comic-Con 2010 -- and that would be sexy "Salt" star Angelina Jolie.

Last week, we asked aloud about the possibility that Jolie and partner Brad Pitt might show up at the annual comic book fest -- now confirmation comes from the Hollywood Reporter that Jolie will indeed come to promote her action flick from Sony.

Pitt is a vocal talent in "Megamind," an animated offering from Paramount set for a November release. His costars Will Ferrell and Tina Fey are slated for that film's panel in Comic-Con's mecca, Hall H -- and now his main squeeze will attend.

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Angelina Jolie on Brad Pitt: “I’m Bad at Hiding Secrets”

Getting ready for the release of her latest flick Salt, Angelina Jolie dishes on her off-screen relationship with Brad Pitt and admits that honesty is the best policy for any relationship.

“I actually think it’s important to be completely honest, however difficult that may be. I’m bad at hiding secrets anyway,” Angelina told MTV in Washington D.C of Brad, with whom she shares six children.

Although being honest is important to the superstar, Angelina plays a wife with many secrets in her new action film and jokes of Brad, “Maybe he’ll question me after he sees it!”

Since Brad was with his girlfriend on the set of Salt often, she is sure that he’ll understand her sneaky role was purely for the movie and enjoy the film.

“He was there for the shooting and he would come to set and he’d seen some of the stunt sequences and stuff. He thinks it looks cool and all of that, but he hasn’t seen the whole thing. He’ll see it at the premiere.”

But, there is one secret that Angelina is good at keeping: The 35-year-old was mum about her new inner thigh tattoo.


“Um, it’s for Brad,” was all the Tourist star would reveal about her latest inking.

Salt, also starring Liev Schreiber, will be released on July 23.

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Will Angelina Jolie step out of the acting spotlight?

Like any working mom, Angelina Jolie juggles her career with raising her six children with partner Brad Pitt. And she's been outspoken about wanting to leave acting behind to spend more time with her family. But Jolie remains one of Hollywood's busiest and most in-demand stars, despite her plans to quit her very lucrative gig. USA TODAY takes a look at Jolie's acting declarations.

What she said: In the August 2010 issue of Vanity Fair, Jolie discussed her plans to ditch her day job. "It's not the most important thing in my life. Acting helped me as I was growing up. It helped me learn about myself, helped me travel, helped me understand life, express myself, all those wonderful things," she said. "So I'm very, very grateful, it's a fun job. It's a luxury. Look, I'm at work today in the middle of Venice. But I don't think I'll do it much longer."

What's in the works: Super-producer Scott Rudin has optioned the rights to Cleopatra: A life and is developing the film for and with Angelina Jolie.

What she said: In November 2008, while promoting her Clint Eastwood film Changeling, Jolie told the BBC that "I'm ready to do a few things now and fade away and get ready to be a grandma one day." She added that she plans to "work for a few months" in February, then take a year off. "I won't work again probably for another year," she said. "So maybe it'll be once a year, then maybe it'll be once every three years."

What went down: She did take time off, but not a year. Since that interview, Jolie filmed two major, big-ticket projects, the action thriller Salt and the drama The Tourist. She began shooting Salt in March 2009, and The Tourist in Venice and Paris beginning in February 2010.

What she said: In March 2007, right after adopting her son Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, she told Vietman's Ho Chi Minh City Law newspaper that she would "stay at home to help Pax adjust to his new life. I have four children and caring for them is the most important thing for me at the moment. I am very proud and happy to be their mother."

What went down: Days after the adoption was finalized, Universal Pictures announced that Jolie would be starring in the action flick Wanted. Jolie arrived in the Czech Republic in May 2007 to start work on the movie.

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Angelina Jolie: Why she tries to impress her kids

Angelina Jolie wants to impress her kids.

The Oscar-winning actress – who raises three six children with partner Brad Pitt – tries to be more careful in her work out of consideration for her family but still wants them to be amazed by her stunt work. She said: “The funny thing about having children is that now I am twice as motivated to do a cool stunt because my kids will like it.

"I’m very responsible these days not to be self-destructive because of my kids, but at the same time I have all the more reason to do all the cool things possible because I want to try and make my kids proud.”

Angelina started work on her most recent action-packed movie ‘Salt’ soon after giving birth to twins Knox and Vivienne, now 22 months, and admits she was delighted to get the “push” she needed to get back in shape as the film was so physically challenging.

She explained: “I’ve always been ridiculously fearless to a fault. I feel happier if I’m living every day to the fullest.

“I’d just had two babies and the push to be physically strong was very welcome at the time.”

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Angelina Jolie Shows Off Super-Skinny Bod in Little White Dress

Here comes Angie, all dressed in white.

Angelina Jolie didn't break a sweat at a Wednesday press event in Cancun, Mexico for her upcoming action film Salt.

The 35-year-old mother of six showed off her taut, super-thin frame in a white, strapless Versace dress, Ferragamo shoes, and jewelry she designed herself.

Stylist David Babaii created the star's relaxed, sleek hairstyle for the event. Babaii tells UsMagazine.com he cut "the bangs a bit shorter and [chipped] into them so they appeared even softer and swept away." See more pics of Angelina in Cancun.

The actress wasn't alone for her brief Mexican sojourn: Jolie brought older kids Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 4, and Shiloh, 3. Her love Brad Pitt stayed behind in L.A. with twins Vivienne and Knox, who turn 2 this month.

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Video: Angelina Jolie Goes on ET To Talk about Salt and Dangerous Stunts

She said on the show “They can hang me off of the side of a building or on a moving car or anything, and I trust that I’m going to be safe, so I can just play.”