Tag: Angelina Jolie

The Education of Angelina

The Education of Angelina

Posted July 17, 2003

The last time I spoke with Angelina Jolie, she spent half our time talking about her husband, Billy Bob Thornton, and her father, Jon Voight. Soon after she went to Cambodia, where she found the new man in her life, a baby boy she adopted and named Maddox. The baby wasn’t part of Billy Bob’s plan for the two of them, and that very public marriage soon dissolved. Jolie’s relationship with her father also went publicly south before long. When she set off to make Laura Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, her father announced that he thought his […]

The Joy of Being Jolie

Posted June 17, 2002

I interviewed Jon Voight at my home in 1978 when he was filming The Champ. Now, 23 years later, I am talking to his daughter, Angelina Jolie. I’m curious to see if she’s at all like her father, who was (and still is) intense, focused and original in his thinking.  You’ve already won an Oscar and you’re starring in a huge action movie that could make you even more powerful. Do you feel like your living a fantasy?Yeah, I feel extremely blessed. But it wasn’t only about getting here. I enjoyed all the steps that got me here. You’ve said […]

The Temptation & Salvation of Angelina Jolie

The Temptation & Salvation of Angelina Jolie

Posted December 17, 2000

In a year marked by a triumphant Oscar win and a sudden marriage, the actress seems to have undergone a startling transformation.  She comes around the corner from the bank of elevators in the discreet London hotel where she’s been living for four months, and steps tentatively into the narrow lounge – which is almost empty. A young, handsome hotel employee points her in your direction, and she takes a few more steps into the room, her head tilted to the side, curiosity growing soft in her eyes.  She sits down beside you and expresses some regret that you’ve got […]

Angelina Jolie and the Torture of Fame

Posted February 17, 2000

SHE’S FIFTY MINUTES LATE and I’m starting to walk toward the door when I see her. She’s smaller and thinner and sadder than I expected from that movie-star face and the wild bad-girl spirit she projects onscreen–the best bad girl in movies today. She looks beaten and dogged. I think about keeping on going because I’m pissed off and of course she doesn’t recognize unfamous me but then something in her beaten face stops me and I say, “Angelina” and she looks at me, hesitates, remembers that she shouldn’t stop because I might be a wacko and starts to keep […]

Shock Treatment

Shock Treatment

Posted January 17, 2000

“I am so sorry I’m late.” I’ve only been at Johnie’s – a L.A. diner so low-rent they don’t even include the second n in the name – for about 10 minutes. This is where I’m to meet Jolie, the 24-year-old actress whose considerable talent is frequently overshadowed by both her beauty and her eccentricities. I turn around to tell her not to worry about being late, and for a long couple of seconds, nothing comes out of my mouth; now I know what they mean by stunned silence. I was not prepared for this woman. Angelina, The Actress Acting […]

American Beauty

American Beauty

Posted September 17, 1999

Angelina Jolie used to play the hard girl. This fall, she goes vulnerable and ladylike – and twice as tough. Angelina Jolie does not like to be touched. “I like to be felt or invaded or confronted,” she says, “but I don’t like to be touched.” Jolie is adamant on this point, and as she speaks her blue-green eyes blaze with intensity. It’s very simple, she says: “I don’t like to talk about nothing, and I don’t like to just kind of be touched.” She smiles, though, widely, and has a firm handshake. Occasionally she hugs – with intent and […]

The Devil in Miss Jolie

The Devil in Miss Jolie

Posted August 17, 1999

Angelina Jolie is in the front room of her apartment in New York, giving what has become the obligatory tour of her tattoos. “OK,” she says, standing up and showing her left arm. “That’s my dragon, upper left.” She presents the inside of her wrist: “That’s an H — there are two people in my life who have this letter who I’m very close to and who I sort of love and cherish. And this is the newest one. I got this with my mom, actually — she came with me. It’s a Tennessee Williams quote: ‘A prayer for the […]

Tres Jolie

Tres Jolie

Posted February 17, 1999

Angelina Jolie gazes out into the Royalton lounge. The six-day shoots for The Bone Collector have her shuttling from New York to Montreal on the Canuck red-eye. She looks sad. Someone with as fully realized a presence as Angelina should not be unhappy. “Listen,” I offer, “you wanna do something really cool?” “Sure,” she smiles. “Hey, you ask me some good questions, I’ll answer them.” “What’re good questions? There are no good questions.” “New questions.” “Nah, there are no new questions. What? Did you love your director? What was your motivation? What brought you to this role? That’s dreck – […]

Angelina Jolie| Wild Angel

Posted January 17, 1999

Her portrayal of drug-ravaged a supermodel Gia put her on the map, but with a scene-stealing turn in Playing By Heart and rolls in two more upcoming films, Angelina Jolie is getting a chance to spread her wings. Angelina Jolie is publicly desecrating herself. Her eyes fluttering under tightly closed to lids. She lies face down on the table in front of a window, her jeans rolled low enough to reveal her black underwear. Her white T-shirt is raised, exposing the shallow curve of her back. Her feet, clad in black cowboy boots, are demurely crossed. A group of schoolboys […]