Archive for November 21st, 2008

Angelina Jolie is not only promoting her film, “The Changeling,” the Clint Eastwood-directed film which she made over the period she got pregnant with the twins but she’s plunged back into charity travel and other good works.

Her next film may be Jolie’s last for a while though, as the actress said last week that she plans to “fade away” from acting in the years ahead.

In the meantime, Angelina has confirmed reports that she will replace Tom Cruise in the upcoming espionage thriller Edwin A. Salt.

The Mr. and Mrs. Smith star first took a shine to the role when Cruise dropped out. Once Jolie expressed interest, the film’s writers reworked the lead character — a CIA officer falsely accused of spying for the Russians — to be female. The film’s name will also be changed with the switcheroo.

“I’m working on a film called Salt,” Jolie said when asked about her next project during an interview on BBC Radio. “It’s with [Bone Collector director] Phillip Noyce. And that’s it.”

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Yesterday Angelina Jolie, 33, attended a press conference in London to speak about her Clint Eastwood-directed film, Changeling. In describing the Chritines Collins character she portryas in the film she brought up her own mother who died  prior to the filming.

My mom….there was something about her, Jolie said. Her name was Marcheline and everybody called her Marshmallow as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world.

Bertrand passed away in January 2007, at age 56, after a battle with cancer. Jolie’s father is Midnight Cowboy actor Jon Voight, 70.

As the interview went on, Jolie began to choke up.

“Um…F*ck,” the Oscar winner cursed, attempting to hold back her tears. “[My mother] is very much… She is very much Christine Collins. She was really, really sweet, and, um, she would never get angry. She couldn’t swear to save her life. But when it came to her kids she was just really, really fierce.”

Jolie added that she related to her mother while playing Collins, and that her own mother “had that elegance and strength through just knowing what was right.”Jolie named one of her twins born in July—Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt—partially after her mother. Source

Watch the video of the interview:

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