Angelina Jolie: My Toughest Critics Are My Kids
FIRST PUBLISHED: May 6, 2011 10:08 AM EDT
LOS ANGELES, Calif. --
Angelina Jolie can handle the movie critics, but when it comes to reviewing her work – she worries most about what her six children think.
“They know when Mommy’s funny and when Mommy’s not funny,” the actress told USA Today of Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2, whom she refers to as her “part agents, part managers.”
The 35-year-old star said her brood is excited about the upcoming “Kung Fu Panda 2,” and they are not afraid to tell her when something isn’t working.
“They’ll sit in a room and say, ‘That’s just not funny,’” she continued. “[They] will keep you competitive, even if they think Jack Black is always cooler than Mom.”
As far as her role in the animated sequel, she might be voicing a character on the big screen, but the Oscar winner isn’t fond of her own voice.
“You know, when you hear your own voice, you can find it quite boring and uninteresting,” she said. “Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I’m not musical and I don’t know my voice.”
The actress, who adopted three of her children, at first worried about the subject matter of the animated movie and how it would relate to her family.
“I wondered how they’d respond to the themes of the film… [Brad and I were] sensitive to see if there was going to be a big discussion that night about adoption and orphanages,” she said, adding that there wasn’t. “But that’s because we talk about those issues at my house all the time, very openly. We’ve had those discussions so often, they’re such happy, wonderful discussions.”
Adding, “We’ve got kids of all ages, so we joked that we had our own focus group.”
“Kung Fu Panda 2” with Jack Black hits theaters on May 26.
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