Angelina Jolie confesses how her divorce from Brad Pitt has affected her career
In the middle of the legal battle between Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, the actress has broken her silence. The protagonists of Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), in whose filming they would have started their relationship according to the rumors that she has always denied, ended their marriage in 2016. Hollywood saw how one of her most idyllic couples became smithereens. Now, Jolie has decided to tell how her divorce has affected her career.
The 45-year-old interpreter wanted to focus much more on cinematographic direction, a task in which she began to turn in 2011 with In the land of blood and honey, but she has been unable to do so. "I love directing, but the change in the family situation has not allowed me to do it for years," she explained in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
In recent times, he had devoted himself body and soul to that role "that allowed him to understand the profession in a different way", with films such as Invincible, In Front of the Sea - the feature film he made to save his marriage - Africa and They took it (memories of a girl in Cambodia).
In addition, the winner of the Oscar for Interrupted Innocence has never been short of proposals to take the reins of a shoot, a very distant panorama that she now faces. Jolie has acknowledged that she has had to take on far fewer projects than she used to accept.
Her illusions to continue directing were frustrated. "I needed to do shorter jobs and be at home longer, so I accepted some roles to play again," she said. Throughout her career, she has released three films as an actress in a single year.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie share custody of five of their six children - Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox - as one of them, Maddox, is of legal age. They have all continued to see her father regularly, but they live with the actress.
Just before the pandemic broke out, according to sources consulted by Eonline, the protagonist of Maleficent was attached to her children throughout the filming of Those Who Wish My Death in New Mexico, which will premiere on May 7.
This aspect also affected her work. As she explains in the interview, her character in the film "is not maternal by nature", unlike her, something that cost much more considering her daily attachment to her children, three of them adopted. and three biological.
At the moment, the war between the actors for custody continues. At the end of March, the US press made reference to the leak of court documents that "make it clear that Jolie is ready and willing to offer evidence of alleged domestic violence" during the trial, and pointed out that her three minor children would be willing to testify. According to US Weekly, the oldest, Maddox, no longer uses the Pitt last name, only his mother's.
A source close to the actor defended on Page Six that he "has taken responsibility for his actions and has stopped drinking." In addition, he described the marriage of the Hollywood stars as "passionate and toxic at times".
