2016 was not a pretty year. Many celebs died, the United Kingdom decided to separate from the European Union, a very dangerous man seized the power of United States and... Worst of all... Brangelina came to an end.
In September, Angelina Jolie asked to divorce Brad Pitt after only two years of marriage. The causes were "Irreconcilable differences" and the actress asked for the custody of their six children, Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox.
Since then, both Jolie and Pitt have been kept away from the press. They still acted cordially during their promotions for 'Allied', with a few interviews and public appearances. The FBI opened an investigation into the welfare of children and the treatment that Pitt gave them, after rumors that Jolie was asking for divorce because he mistreated them. fortunately, the case was shortly closed
Angeline Jolie has finally decided to speak out for the first time, taking advantage of the drama to promote the new film she has directed, 'First They Killed My Father'.
The actress has been conciliatory, sending a message of union with her ex-husband. "I do not want to say much about it, beyond that it has been a very difficult time and we are a family and we will always be a family," she told BBC World News.
Jolie also says she's focused on her kids, who are 8 to 15 years old. "My family is going through a very difficult time, my concern is my children, our children ... and getting ahead, we are and will always be a family, I'm trying to find a way to make sure That this makes us stronger and united".
The protagonist of films as diverse as 'Maleficent', 'Changeling', 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' and 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' joked about how difficult it is day to day as a new divorced mother. "Everyone is in my room," she said with a laugh. "Two dogs, two hamsters and two kids at all times, it's wonderful, but I usually wake up thinking about who's going to take the dog for a walk, who's going to start making pancakes and if someone has brushed their teeth."
The committed star has been concerned about the future of her children, whom she adopted along with Pitt over the past few years. "In five years I would like to be traveling the world to visit my children, hoping they are happy and doing interesting things, I imagine in many different parts of the world, and I will be supporting them," confessed Jolie. "Everything I do I hope will represent something, and I hope to represent the best for my children, and give them the right sense of all that they are capable of doing, and how the world is to be seen. A concrete lifestyle, but bring them out into the world, have common sense and become complex people."
Fifth Film as a director
Of course, Angelina Jolie herself has been accused of being a 'complex' Hollywood star. Her career as an actress has been extremely diverse, including the five films she has directed herself. From the 2007 documentary, 'A Place in Time', Jolie has sat in the directors chair for 'In the Land of Blood & Honey', 'Unbroken', and 'By the Sea', an unfortunate commercial failure in which she and Brad Pitt played a couple in the middle of a crisis in 2015.
Now she has Netflix's backing to shoot 'First They Killed My Father', a story based on the life of Loung Ung. The film will take place in Cambodia. From there, Jolie gave an interview to BBC World News, and talks about the film.
1 Family of Actors
In the veins of Angelina Jolie runs German-Czech blood. In addition, she has dual nationality: USA and Cambodian.
On the same topic, the whole family is in the artistic and acoustic vein: both her father, the well-known Jon Voight, and her mother, Marcheline Bertrand (died in 2007), come from the world of acting.
2 Debuted at 7 years old
Signing as Angelina Jolie Voight and at only seven years old was first put in front of the camera: in the comedy 'Lookin' To Get Out' (Hal Ashby, 1982), starring beside her father. A decade later play her first protagonist in 'Cyborg 2' (Michael Schroeder, 1993), sequel to the famous film by Van Damme but without the presence of the Muscles from Brussels.
After a time in which she proved as a teen model and in which appeared in videos music of artists such as Meat Loaf or Lenny Kravitz, gradually is was doing road with 'Hackers' (Iain Softley, 1995), 'Foxfire' (Annette Haywood-Carter, 1996) or 'Mojave Moon' (Kevin Dowling, 1996), to get to 'George Wallace' (John Frankenheimer, 1997) , a made for TV movie that got her the first Golden Globe of her career.
3 The Oscar
Confirmation of her acting ability arrived in the year 2000 thanks to her Oscar as best supporting actress in 'Girl, Interrupted' (James Mangold, 1999). Her second nomination came nine years after, as protagonist in 'Changeling' (Clint Eastwood, 2008), but the statuette went to Kate Winslet by 'The Reader' (Stephen Daldry, 2008).
Among other honors in her role as actress, the has won three of the six Golden Globes she has been nominated for: those obtained in 1998 by 'George Wallace' (best actress in a series, miniseries or TV film), in 1999 for 'Gia' (actress in a series, miniseries or TV film) and in 2000 by 'Girl, Interrupted' (starring actress in film).
4 No return to Lara Croft
If there is a character that has marked a before and a later in the career of Angelina Jolie, it's Lara Croft, action heroine (and unofficial heir to Indiana Jones) that is from the world of video games. While to the beginning there were voices that criticized both the physical of the actress as the made of that an American diese life to a character British, it true is that 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' (Simon West, 2001) ended being a resounding success popular, and both character as it own Angelina is developed as the idol of million of young in all the world. However, the performance of 'Lara Croft. Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life' (Jan de Bont, 2003) precipitated the cancellation of a franchise that promised many more titles and, so far, has limited its expansion to the video game consoles.
5 'Cleopatra' and 'The Bride of Frankenstein'
In the last couple of years, the name of Angelina Jolie is has related with certain force for starring in dream remakes that, by the time, not have hatched. In 2010 it it was assumed that would take the baton from Liz Taylor to be the new 'Cleopatra', but in the last five years nothing has become to know about the project. Much more recent is the news that Jolie may be starring as the titular role in the upcoming 'Bride of Frankenstein' reboot, but, at the moment, it seems unlikely that the film will end up being made. For now, the only confirmed project that Jolie is to take part in is the sequel to 'Maleficent', directed by Linda Woolverton and made by Disney, and is due to arrive sometime in 2017.
6 Angelina, Director
Many people believe that 'In Land of Blood and Honey' (2011), set in the Bosnian War, is the first film as an Angelina filmmaker; (2007), an experimental documentary with a clear humanist vocation that shows the lives and customs of anonymous people from twenty-seven different countries. It was supported by such actors as Sean Astin, Colin Farrell, Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Djimon Hounsou, Jude Law, Olivier Martinez, Jonny Lee Miller or Hilary Swank, among others.
In addition to these two titles and cited, Jolie has directed other feature films with irregular results: 'Unbroken' (2014) and 'By the Sea' (2015), which also co-starred with her husband Brad Pitt. She is currently in the post-production phase of her latest work, "First They Killed My Father", it will be released on Netflix
7 Humanitarian work
Beyond the cameras and hotbeds, Angelina Jolie has been doing serious humanitarian work for over fifteen years, from Sierra Leone and the United Republic of Tanzania to Bosnia, Thailand, Kenya, Ecuador, Lebanon, Chad and Darfur. She is an Ambassador of Goodwill of UNHCR since 2001, founder of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant children and Special Envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner from 2012. In 2014, the Hollywood Academy recognized this invaluable work by giving her the Jean Hersholt Special Prize.
8 Four Spouses, Three Divorces, and Six Kids
Four times Angelina has been to the altar, with three notorious divorces (Jonny Lee Miller, Billy Bob Thornton and Colin Farrell) before saying the "I do" to Brad Pitt, whom she was with for seven years before the marriage in 2014. They also have six children together: three adopted (a Cambodian, a Vietnamese and an Ethiopian) and three natural (the first with Namibian nationality, the other two, french).
9 The Tabloids
During the last twenty years, the private life of Angelina Jolie has been cannon fodder for tabloids and press from all over the world: from the difficult relationship with her father until the rumors of incest with her own brother, when the young actress appeared to collect her Oscar with her brother. After several years speculating with her bisexuality and the cause of the breakdown of the Brad Pitt-Jennifer Aniston marriage during the filming of 'Mr and Mrs Smith' (Doug Liman, 2007).