Angelina Jolie: "I never wanted to have a baby nor did I think of myself as a mother"
The actress shoots her new film in Cambodia, a country that she claims she "changed her life"
Today she forms a large family with Brad Pitt and his six children, three adopted and three biological. But there was a moment when Angelina Jolie was not interested in or even thought of being a mother. "It's strange. I never wanted to have a baby. She never wanted to be pregnant. I never looked after children. I never thought of myself as a mother, ”the actress confessed in an interview with the Associated Press in Cambodia. A country in which she is now filming her new film as a director and that changed her life when, on one of her first trips, in the early 2000s, she began to play with some children: “Suddenly it was very clear to me that my son was in that country, somewhere ”. In 2002 she returned to adopt her first child, Maddox.
The interpreter, director and producer has confessed in her interview, in which she assures that today she is in the best moment of her life and in the place that she always wanted to be. A statement that perhaps seeks to counteract the constant rumors that separate her from Brad Pitt, whom she married in 2014 in France after nine years of relationship.
In 2000, she made her first trip to Cambodia, to introduce the strong and sensual character of Lara Croft, and for her nothing was ever the same again. “It changed me, it changed my perspective. I realized there was a lot about history that I hadn't been taught in school, and a lot about life that I needed to learn, ”says Jolie. That experience was what led him to contact the UNHCR, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, for the first time. After a second humanitarian trip to Cambodia in 2001, the following year the actress became a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Although this time her stay in Cambodia is not for humanitarian reasons, but for the filming of her new film as a director, First They Killed My Father, a feature film for Netflix that recounts the genocide of Cambodia during the seventies from the written story by one of the Khmer Rouge survivors. In this new film project she has the help of her son Maddox, now 14 years old, in whose honor the Oscar-winning actress opened a foundation in Battambang province. In her new trip, which she has taken advantage of to get some more tattoos, she has also received a visit from her children Shiloh and Pax.
At 40, after a somewhat stormy youth and today achieved family stability with her third marriage, Angelina Jolie assures that her new film is the "most important" of her career because it brings together her three passions: cinema, her family and her humanitarian interests.
