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Angelina Jolie is making the most of her time in Malta. As Brad Pitt shoots his latest film in the southern European country, the actress and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, 36, has been making a spate of humanitarian visits in the region.
On Sunday morning, Jolie visited two centers housing asylum-seekers in Malta, plus a similar camp on the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Over 1500 refugees have fled the violence from war-embattled Libya to Malta (via overcrowded boats) this year, with a troubling amount losing their lives during the dangerous overseas passage.
"Malta has saved many lives, but it is the daily conditions on the ground that are of most concern," Jolie said in Malta on Sunday morning. "We've spent time today speaking with the government and will spend more time talking about how, together, we can make the conditions more humane, especially for the children."
In this video, exclusive to Us Weekly, Jolie (greeted with cheers, hugs, and handmade signs) meets and speaks with men, women and children at one of those centers.
"We've spoken about our shared concerns about making sure asylum claims are processed as quickly as possible so no-one is sitting in a prison-like situation and waiting on a decision about their status, " she added.
"They are not asking to go to any particular country, they just want to find safety to work, and to have freedom," Jolie, who has long advocated for international refugees, added.
Angelina Jolie is spreading goodwill in Turkey. The actress, who serves as goodwill ambassador to the United Nations goodwill ambassador, traveled to Turkey to visit Syrian refugees on Thursday.
As she arrived, Jolie was welcomed by a large sign that read “Goodness Angel of the World, Welcome.” According to several reports, Angelina brought food and toys to the Syrians, who have fled to the Turkish border after the government’s crackdown on protesters. She spent two and a half hours talking to refugees and taking notes.
The Syrian government is cracking down on protests demanding the resignation of President Bashar al-Assad. More than 1,200 people have been killed since the conflict began three months ago.
Jolie and her children Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, have been spotted all over Malta, where Brad Pitt is shooting his upcoming zombie movie, World War Z.
The Jolie-Pitt clan headed to the Splash and Fun Park for some water park fun. Then, the next day, Jolie was spotted taking her kids to Junior’s Fun and Learn Centre, an indoor play place. The children looked happy, carrying out tons of toys.
Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their brood of six will be spending June in Malta as he films zombie flick World War Z. Pitt, 47, and Jolie, 36, have rented a palatial $11 million mansion in Qrendi, Malta, just five minutes from the ocean, and plan to live it up with their kids before the movie starts rolling.
But on Tuesday night, the couple soaked up some adult time with dinner at Trattoria Da Pippo in the nearby town of Valetta.
Leaving Shiloh and the gang behind, the twosome met up with ten other friends and colleagues for a sumptuous Maltese meal.
Explains a local insider: "It's a lunchtime restaurant, so it was opened especially for them. Brad wanted a dinner for some of the people working on the film. It was an intimate setting."
As ever, Pitt was "a gentleman" with his love of six years. "He held the door, and pulled out her seat," the insider says, adding that the sat next to each other.
On the menu for the feast? Antipasto of parma ham, salami, Maltese sausage and maltese goat cheese, mussels, pasta with clams, sea urchins and (more!) Maltese sausage, veal with parma ham and sage, plus king prawns and fried calamari.
"They looked relaxed and enjoyed the evening," the source says.
Toward the end of the meal, they were joined by Franco Debono, a local politician, for a quick chat. "I love Malta!" Pitt raved to Debono. "Glad to be here."
(The stars posed for a phone pic with Debono, second to left, a staffer, and restaurant owner Francis Cutajar, far right.)
Adds a second onlooker of the couple: "They are very nice people, very quiet, they were relaxed and enjoyed their evening."
She’s barefoot, wearing her own clothes, no makeup and toting her own elegantly weathered monogrammed Alto bag. Yet Angelina Jolie looks radiant and completely in her element, reclining on a wooden boat in a verdant, lakeside landscape in Cambodia’s Siem Reap province. Jolie discovered the country in 2000 when she filmed “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” and it sparked her humanitarian activism.
She’s the latest celebrity to pose for Louis Vuitton’s popular “Core Values” campaign — and surely the only one who brought four children to the photo shoot, some of whom had to be shooed out of Annie Leibovitz’s frame.
“People are not used to seeing Angelina in this situation,” said Pietro Beccari, Vuitton’s executive vice president, unveiling the image exclusively to WWD. “I like the fact that it’s a real moment. This travel message we give through personal journeys is a fundamental one for the brand.”
The ad is slated to break in the International Herald Tribune on Wednesday, followed by a range of news, general interest and lifestyle publications, including Vanity Fair.
Beccari declined to disclose budgets for the media buy, or comment on reports Vuitton paid the American actress millions for the shoot. He would only say Jolie donated an undisclosed portion of her fees to a charity.
The campaign is expected to run for at least 18 months alongside a few other recent “core values” personalities, including Bono and Sean Connery. Vuitton introduced the advertising concept in 2007 as a way to trumpet its travel roots and showcase its perennial monogrammed leather goods as a balance to its fashion-driven marketing — and to reach a broader audience. Other personalities who have posed for Vuitton include Mikhail Gorbachev, Keith Richards and Catherine Deneuve.
Also on Wednesday, Vuitton plans to post a teaser on its Web site, louisvuittonjourneys.com/cambodia, foreshadowing an interview with Jolie that will be posted later in the month. In it, she is expected to discuss how her visit to Cambodia was a life-changing experience, awakening her to the plight of Third World countries. She adopted her eldest son, Maddox, from Cambodia and she and Brad Pitt established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which is active in community development and conservation in the country.
“This campaign is about a very special person and a very special journey,” Beccari said.
And a storied handbag. Beccari showed off several paparazzi shots of Jolie toting the Alto carryall, which is believed to be at least six years old. The style is no longer in production, but “we are considering to re-edit it,” Beccari noted.
Through their foundation, Springfield native Brad Pitt and partner Angelina Jolie on Friday contributed $500,000 to the Community Foundation of the Ozarks, to bolster the recovery effort in Joplin.
"Rebuilding after a disaster is a long process," said Brian Fogle, President of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks. "As our neighbors in Joplin begin to deal with the devastation, this donation from the Jolie-Pitt Foundation gives them the hope and confidence they will need to rebuild their lives, homes and community."
The money will be used to support mid- and long-term rebuilding efforts in the storm-ravaged city.
"With the devastating loss of thirty percent of the city, the Joplin community faces great challenges ahead. Having spent much of my childhood there, I know these people to be hardworking, humble and especially resilient," said Brad Pitt. "The locally based Community Foundation of the Ozarks will be working shoulder to shoulder with these Joplin residents for the long haul as they rebuild their lives. We, too, hope to further help with these rebuilding efforts," Pitt said.
Added Jolie: "Our hearts go out to the families in Joplin who have lost so much."
Angelina Jolie has taken on her fair share of challenging roles, but the Oscar-winning actress recently spoke about one of her most difficult roles to date: Cleopatra. Miss Jolie is set to star in the remake of the critically acclaimed, 1963 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, and the actress is aware she has very large shoes to fill.
The big-screen remake, titled "Queen of the Nile: Cleopatra, A Life," is said to be a unique interpretation of the classic tale. Prior to her death, Taylor reportedly voiced concerns about the remake, particularly the casting of Miss Jolie in her iconic role.
"My performance will never be as lovely as Elizabeth's," Miss Jolie told the Telegraph in a recent interview.
Miss Jolie plans to approach the Egyptian queen from a different angle. "We are trying to get into a different truth about her as a pharaoh in history and not as a sex symbol, because she really wasn't," she said. "She has been very misunderstood.
"She was very interesting, but she wasn't a great beauty," Miss Jolie said. "She was a very strong mother, she spoke five languages and she was a leader."
The film doesn't hit theaters until 2013, and the director has yet to be confirmed, but Miss Jolie has expressed interest in working with David Fincher of "The Social Network." The male lead is still up in the air as well, but actor Johnny Depp has said he thinks Miss Jolie's beau, Brad Pitt, would be a good fit.
"They're the Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton of our era," he said.
Angelina Jolie is gushing about Brad Pitt in a new interview, sharing that her partner is "a real gentleman" and an "extraordinary, great, loving father."
"I am very lucky with Brad," she told the paper. "He is a real gentleman, but he is also a real man's man."
"He's got the wonderful balance of being an extraordinary, great, loving father, a very, very intelligent man and physically he's a real man," she added, blushing to the reporter, "in all things that it means."
As for their family (they are parents to Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 5, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2), Jolie said, "When Brad and I decided to have a large family we decided we'd only do it if we could be really hands-on and take the kids with us, seeing them every day. I am always there on weekends, I only ever work a five-day week, and I am often there for breakfast or dinner. When I'm working they come up at lunch."
She added, "It's a special time for Daddy when Mom works for a few months. And Brad is such a great dad. When I'm working he's putting in the extra dad time, and that's special for their relationship, too."
When asked if she and Pitt would marry, she said simply, "We are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together."
Jolie, who is currently promoting "Kung Fu Panda 2," is set to take on the title role in a remake of "Cleopatra," to be directed by David Fincher.
"She has been very misunderstood," Jolie said of the historical figure, famously played by Elizabeth Taylor in the 1963 film. "I thought it was all about the glamour, but then I read about her and she was a very strong mother, she spoke five languages and she was a leader."
In the parking lot outside a Los Angeles photo studio, a scruffy-looking guy sporting a goatee, black T-shirt and motorcycle boots sits on the curb puffing a cigarette. He's listening intently to a stylish man rave about a cool camera shop. A passerby would barely notice the pair as they head into the building.
But when the photographer starts shooting, the bearded guy seems to undergo a transformation. Grooving to Jimi Hendrix on the sound system, he assumes an expression of ineffable cool, his posture somewhere between rakish and regal. He radiates glamour by the gigawatt. Suddenly, he's Brad Pitt.
That name, of course, refers to several entities that occupy the same broad-shouldered, 5-foot-11-inch frame. There's the actor, whose talent and charisma draw crowds to movie theaters worldwide. There's the celebrity, twice declared “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine, whose private life has been a source of public fascination for more than a decade. There's the Brad Pitt of the past, who has put his stints as a serial romancer of co-stars (Gwyneth Paltrow, Robin Givens, Juliette Lewis) and errant husband of Jennifer Aniston (from whom he was divorced in 2005) far behind him.
Now 47, Pitt is an unabashed family man. Fatherhood is, indeed, his most consuming project: raising an unruly brood of six children ages 2 to 9 — three of them adopted, three biological, born in five different countries — with partner Angelina Jolie. Their effect on Pitt has been, by his own account, profound. He credits parenthood, in great part, for his hard-won maturity.
“Kids hold up a mirror to you,” he says in his first extensive interview since 2009. “You can't make excuses. You've got to make sure they've brushed their teeth and eaten a good breakfast. You want to be present if they wake up with a bad dream.”
The responsibility weighs heavily on the now-middle-aged actor. In a display of emotion any parent would relate to, Pitt says fears about his kids' safety “keep me up at night.”
But unlike in most families, Pitt's worries have an added dimension. “We're hunted,” he says, flexing his tattooed, muscular forearm as if contemplating retaliation. “Our kids have to live behind a gate. Outside, there are people with cameras.
“But I'll take the trade-off. I never knew I was capable of experiencing so much love.”
In his newest movie, the sprawling and poetic Tree of Life — directed by the legendary Terrence Malick and opening in some cities this weekend — Pitt plays a father of three boys in 1950s Texas. (One son grows up to be an architect, played by Sean Penn.) That's fitting: Parenthood is increasingly central to Pitt's sense of self, influencing everything from the movies he chooses to make — “I want to leave some work behind that my kids will be proud of” — to his vision of the future with Jolie.
Though he has said the couple would wait to wed until gay people could do so legally, he now acknowledges that the timetable may change. “The kids ask about marriage,” he says, sinking wearily into a sofa. He takes a sip of cappuccino. “It's meaning more and more to them. So it's something we've got to look at.”
For all the luxuries Pitt can give his children, he regrets that he can't pass on the freedom he had as a child growing up the eldest of three siblings in Springfield, Mo., where his father owned a trucking company and his mother was a high school counselor.
“On the road, we're a military mobile unit,” he says. “The kids have got their stuff down to one backpack, and they're each responsible for their own bag. Mom does the packing; she's quite gifted at that. Puts in just what we need — nothing extra.”
The family migrates between the multi-house Los Angeles compound he calls “our base camp” and film sets around the globe, spending downtime at a 1,000-acre estate in southern France.
“We're pretty nomadic,” he says. “We go where the crops are.”
Pitt concedes that his family life “seems a bit extreme.” But “I like extremes. I guess I've always operated that way.”
Still, he says, “Angie and I do everything we can to carve out some semblance of normalcy for them, to re-create the kinds of moments that were special for us. It's not unusual for the kids to be covered in paint. We have mud fights. It's chaos from morning until the lights go out, and sometimes after that.”
The older kids are home-schooled, but their parents try to create opportunities to socialize. The family sometimes sneaks past the paparazzi to an undisclosed location for a football game with friends.
Pitt and Jolie carve out time to nurture their own relationship as well.
“There are no secrets at our house,” Pitt says, his blue eyes crinkling in a slightly wicked smile. “We tell the kids, ‘Mom and Dad are going off to kiss.' They go, ‘Eww, gross!' But we demand it.”
As he navigates his fifth decade, Pitt has begun to ponder the long term. “Will I be acting when I'm 80?” he asks rhetorically. “Definitely not.”
A passionate amateur photographer and architect (whose Make It Right foundation is building environmentally sustainable homes in New Orleans for low-income residents displaced by Hurricane Katrina), he aims to explore those vocations more deeply in the coming years. He also wants to improve his French and his cooking skills — now limited to bacon, eggs and flapjacks.
But Pitt won't be trading in biker boots for house slippers anytime soon. “I hope to keep riding motorcycles,” he says with that devilish grin, “until I can't stand up anymore.”
At the L.A. premiere of the Palme D'Or winning 'Tree of Life' - Brad Pitt, accompanied by Angelina Jolie, talks about how his role made him reflect on parenting, and sends his thoughts to those affected by the tornado in Missouri.
Angelina Jolie was a no-show at Tuesday night's NYC red carpet premiere of her flick Kung Fu Panda 2, where costars Lucy Liu and Jack Black had to make do without her.
The reason Jolie, 35, played hooky? To support her man, Brad Pitt, across the country in L.A.! Smooth-faced and dapper in a Tom Ford suit and David Yurman sunglasses, Pitt, 47, hit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for the premiere of his film The Tree of Life, which just won the top prize at the Cannes Film Fest.
Jolie was at Pitt's side in a jaw-dropping new look: a diaphonous, bright red one-shoulder gown by Jenny Packham, accented with Tiffany jewelry and Stuart Weitzman heels.
The duo caused such pandemonium upon their arrival that Pitt's costar, Jessica Chastain, halted her interviews because of the overcrowded red carpet. See more photos of Brangelina at The Tree of Life premiere.
Will Pitt and Jolie's six kids become actors like their world-famous parents?
"Listen, I just want them to do whatever they want," Pitt told reporters. "To follow their bliss, whatever makes them happy!"
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Shiloh Jolie-Pitt and her siblings aren't quite ready for the red carpet yet -- but they still got to cheer on their world-famous mom at Sunday's Hollywood premiere of Kung Fu Panda 2!
Although Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt walked the red carpet at Grauman's Chinese Theater without their brood, they were spotted exiting the screening with their four eldest.
After catching the animated sequel, Little Shiloh, 4 and brother Maddox, 9, held onto their mom Jolie's hands outside the the theater; Zahara, 6, and brother Pax, 7, walked out with their dad Pitt, 47.
As usual, the celeb kids each rocked their own unique styles: Shaggy-haired Shiloh sipped on a Kung Fu Panda 2 cup and wore a black vest, tie and pants, white button-down shirt and combat boots; drinking from a similar cup, Zahara wore a trench coat, grey shirt, slim black jeans and purple scrunch boots. Grinning ear-to-ear, Maddox sported a mohawk, black sweater, denim and black Converse high tops; Pax kept it more preppy-casual in a blazer, jeans and sneakers.
The famous clan are back from the Cannes Film Fest, where Jolie, 35, and Pitt were both promoting films.
But it apparently wasn't the first time Shiloh and the gang watched their mom's new movie. At a press junket in Cannes, Jolie explained that her kids had already seen the flick -- and gave it a big thumbs up.
"The kids loved it! They laughed out loud hysterical."
Good thing, because the film "deals with family and adoption," she said, and she worried that her brood of biological and adopted kids might be bothered by "such a heavy issue."
Added the mom: "We talk very openly in our house. 'Orphanage' and 'birth parents' are happy words in our house."
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie caused a crowd frenzy in Cannes with the simple act of holding hands. OK, make that the two most famous and perfect-looking people on the planet were holding hands.
The duo's PDA was on display as they visited a French restaurant last night and had a romantic meal, perhaps celebrating the announcement that Jolie's directorial debut was picked up by a distributor and the premiere of Pitt's latest prestige pic, the Terrence Malick-helmed The Tree of Life.
So who purchased Jolie's controversial film on the Bosnian War? And what did the reviewers say about Pitt's performance?
First Jolie's movie, which is set during the Bosnian War and focusing on a fictional romance between a Bosnian woman and a Serbian man. The film made headlines for its trouble-plagued shoot. The production was initially banned from being filmed in Sarajevo after Bosnian officials had concerns with the script, then it wrapped early in the country and decamped to Budapest.
Well, after months of calling the movie variations on Untitled Angelina Jolie Project, we have learned that the official title is In the Land of Blood and Honey and it will be released by FilmDistrict, a subsidiary of GK Films, in the U.S. on Dec. 23.
Meanwhile, Pitt's latest endeavor is earning decidedly mix notices. Sure, his flicks tend to polarize critics, but there have been huge expectations this time out, seeing that he's starring with Sean Penn in a drama by the iconoclastic Malick, who has made just five movies in his 40-year career and whose rare output usually sends critics into a tizzy.
The Hollywood Reporter likens the movie to 2001: A Space Odyssey, claiming Tree is "hardly a movie for the masses and will polarize even buffs." But the review goes on to say that there are "great, heady" things in the film, "both obvious and evanescent," that will qualify it as an "exceptional and major film." And the trade hails Pitt's performance as one of his fines.
Variety calls the movie an "extraordinary" and "transfixing" through time and memory.
And then there are the outright haters.
Entertainment Weekly gave Tree a big thumbs-down, describing the movie as a sermon that goes off on too many tangents.
Movieline bashed it, too, calling the film a "gargantuan work of pretension and cleverly concealed self absorption" in which Malick pays more attention to the gorgeous photography than he does to the characters.
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