Monday, July 12, 2010

Angelina: Russian is very seductive language

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Angelina Jolie has learned a new language of love.

"I love speaking Russian. It's very, very hard. I find it a very interesting sound because it can be so hard and strong and also very sensual and very beautiful," says Jolie, 35, who picked up the language for her new spy thriller, Salt (out July 23).


Added Jolie (who spoke at a weekend event to promote the flick), "It's a very interesting sounding language. It took me a long time. I just had to practice over and over and over and I was told that I was getting it wrong a bunch of times and I had to keep practicing."

Jolie worked with a Russian vocal coach. "They'd do it with me, spend time with me and then they'd put it on tape. So I would take it home and I would just keep trying to get it exactly right and then trying not to get so stuck on a line."


The actress says speaking the language on-screen added sexual tension with co-star Liev Schreiber, who can read Russian.

"It was interesting to see how seductive that language could become when we were doing it... that some sounds can really hinder that or some accents have a very specific feeling to them," she says.

Jolie admitted in the new issue of Vanity Fair -- an article she said over the weekend she has not read -- that she'd like to retire from acting in the near future.


"I just imagine in the years to come... it's not that I'm retiring, but there will 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," she said.

Jolie looks forward to growing older, she says. "I do think that age is beautiful."

For now, she stays young chasing her kids with Brad Pitt, 45, around their house.

Twins Knox and Viv -- who turn 2 years old Monday -- "are going in different directions at the same time," she jokes. "We have put a lot more gates around. We've gated off a lot of the rooms in the house where they were going."


The other kids -- Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4 -- "are all over the place."

"Zee is the fastest in the house," adds Jolie.

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Angelina in "Nightline": Brad is love of my life

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt often feel like they will never get to sleep ever again because they have so many kids.

The Hollywood stars raise six children together - Maddox, eight, Pax, six, five-year-old Zahara, Shiloh, four and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Angelina loves everything about being a mom, and admits she and Brad have spoken about expanding their family. They aren’t sure if they will or not, as they love kids but worry about their already chaotic home life.

“We always have this thing, first thing in the morning, where we're really, really tired, and we look at each other and we wonder, ‘Are we ever going to get sleep?’” she explained in an interview airing on Nightline in America tonight. “And yet we still love the idea of having more children.”

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Angelina has previously said she and Brad will marry if their children want them to, now adding the kids seem happy with the situation as it is at the moment.

The couple share all childcare, with each taking time away from movie making to look after the youngsters when the other is working. Angelina says her daughters love it when Brad looks after them, as they know they will be able to get their own way.

“I think girls and Daddy can just bat their eyes,” she laughed. “And the boys, funnily enough, can kind of get me.“At breakfast time we're like bartenders. We're like waiters. But we still, I think, are able to do it because we manage to have a great laugh. We do it together, and we find fun in it, and because of that, it doesn't matter if you don't get sleep. It's an honour to take care of them.”

The 35-year-old added Brad, 46, is the love of her life, and she is certain they will be together for the rest of their days.

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Angelina: "Wanted 2" is not interesting to me


Earlier today at the junket for the Sony Pictures conspiracy action-thriller Salt, ComingSoon.net had a chance to speak with actress Angelina Jolie, and we were curious on her reasons for leaving Wanted 2 despite the filmmakers trying to figure out a way to bring her character Fox back. (SPOILER: If you haven't seen the movie yet, you may want to stop reading here.)

"Being dead makes it difficult," she confirmed. "They were (trying to bring me back) but I kind of feel like if I die in a movie, I should die actually. I'm that way, and that character is not as complex as Salt. It would just be doing the exact same thing in another movie, so it's not that interesting to me."

There's been a lot of talk about Jolie possibly playing Egyptian queen Cleopatra in a musical directed by Steven Soderbergh or playing the witch Maleficent in Tim Burton's reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty tale, but it doesn't look like either is immediately on the horizon for the actress. "It got out that we may be doing them, but we're so in the early stages," she told us. "Neither one has a script, but I've loved Malificent since I was a little girl, so when I heard somebody may be doing it, I was the first one to try to (get it). I would love to work with (Tim Burton), it would be a dream to work with him. I think he's just extraordinary."

Meanwhile, Salt opens on Friday, July 23, and we'll have more from the interview with Jolie before then.


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Angelina for "Reuters": I'd never force my kids to be something they're not



Shortly after Angelina Jolie revealed that her 4-year-old daughter Shiloh "wants to be a boy," she has now defended her masculine clothing.

Jolie, who is currently promoting her upcoming film "Salt", told Reuters on Saturday, July 10 that Shiloh's fashion choice is "fascinating".

"I think she (Shiloh) is fascinating, the choices she is making. And I would never be the kind of parent to force somebody to be something they are not. I think that is just bad parenting," Jolie said. "Children should be allowed to express themselves in whatever way they wish without anybody judging them because it is an important part of their growth."

In recent months, Shiloh, who has a cropped hairstyle, has been spotted wearing boys' neckties, jackets, hats and other clothing which later sparked headlines about the youngster being a bit of a tomboy. Jolie, however, stated, "Society always has something to learn when it comes to the way we judge each other, label each other. We have far to go."

While Shiloh opted the boy's clothing because she feels comfortable with that, Jolie recently dressed in men's clothes for her role as a rogue CIA officer in "Salt". The 35-year-old actress said that the film's crew felt uncomfortable with her disguise.

"It was fascinating," Jolie shared about her experience. "The stunt guys I usually hung out talking to, didn't want to hang out with me. The girls didn't know how to respond... there was something about him that kind of freaked the whole crew out."

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