Angelina Jolie's best friend revealed: The star, 45, 'has become close' to Ellen Pompeo, 51, as they bond over raising kids in Los Feliz... amid Brad Pitt custody battle

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Published on Wednesday, 19 May 2021 15:20

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         Angelina Jolie has a good friend in Hollywood that she has bonded with in recent years.The Oscar-winning actress, 45, is now best friends with Ellen Pompeo, 51, of Grey's Anatomy fame who has three children - Stella, 11, Sienna, six, and Eli, four. - with husband of 14 years, Chris Ivery.'She and Ellen Pompeo have known each other for years but really bonded during [coronavirus] lockdown because their kids are really close,' said a source to UsWeekly.The two have been seen together on the town with their daughters in the past.They have a lot in common: both are over 40 and have had long careers in Hollywood where they started working as teenagers.They also both live in the Los Feliz, California neighborhood which is not far from Hollywood.Jolie's ex Brad Pitt is less than a mile away as well, which makes co-parenting easier.  She and Pitt, 57, split in September 2016 after two years of marriage.  They became legally single in April 2019, but are still haggling over the custody agreement.Jolie also has others to help her with Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12. And she has also become close to her Eternals costar Don Lee.'Angie has a tight support system that largely consists of her household staff, her brother, James, and a handful of very trusted friends,' the insider shared.  Jolie only allows in people whom she can 'trusts with her life' and those who make the cut have become 'like family' to her, the insider noted.'The divorce has been very tough on her, both emotionally and financially … but she’s found ways to cope,' the insider shared.   This comes after she said was 'really challenged' by home schooling.The Mr & Mrs Smith actress is thankful all her kids are 'capable and smart' so didn't need to rely on her to guide them through the work supplied by their various schools when in-person teaching was paused due to the coronavirus pandemic.She told HELLO! magazine: 'I have four different schools going on with six different kids, so it's all different. 'I'm also terrible with math and I question history, so I'm a really challenged parent when it comes to a lot of this stuff.'Fortunately, I have very capable, smart children. They are getting through, but it's hard.'
         The actress is giving her focus to her children right now and she couldn't be happier with where she is in her own life. She said: 'Right now, I just want to raise my children well. They are all at those very special ages where you want to not miss a moment.'You do your best to get it right before they are out into the world on their own and having to face everything.'You hope to get all of the good stuff in. I'm the most grounded I've ever been in my life and that allows you to be more free. When you're older, you can tackle bigger things. Life is very full and I complain very little these days. As long as my kids are healthy, I have everything I need.'Angelina believes the key to happiness is being an 'honest person' and a good friend.She said: 'What really gets you through life is being a good friend, making good friends, and being an honest person. If you can go to sleep at night feeling that you've been yourself and you've been straight, you can live clean and be right with yourself. Don't let other people define who you are. The most important thing is to figure out what is uniquely different about you, not how you are like other people. Try to stay with that, be strong and brave and don't let them change you.' She also said she has a 'very long list of nos' when it comes to dating.The Those Who Wish Me Dead actress joked she's been single 'for a long time' because she's so picky about her partners.Asked if she has a list of 'nos' when it comes to finding a new guy to date, she quipped: 'I probably have a very long list [of 'nos']. I've been alone for a long time now.'Although the star can be a worrier, she's thankful she doesn't need to fret about her 'cool' kids because they are all 'very capable'. She told E! News: 'I have six very capable children. Of course you wake up and you just feel like, 'I've got to make sure they're OK. I've got to make sure they're mentally OK,' but honestly I think a few years ago it switched and they're thinking, 'I've got to make sure mom's OK. We're such a team so I am very, very lucky. I'm always the one who worries but I don't worry about them. They're cool people.' Angelina recently admitted playing PTSD-stricken fire fighter Hannah Faber in her new movie Those Who Wish Me Dead  - her first action role in over a decade - had been a 'very healing' experience for her. She said: 'I am drawn to people who have been through something and are broken and then find their way forward and overcome it. As an artist, it's very healing to play people like that. She's been very healing for me, because you just get so broken and then you stand back up. [Hannah is] a very broken person who carries a great deal of guilt.'  

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A Smokin' hot role for Angelina Jolie: BRIAN VINER reviews Those Who Wish Me Dead

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Published on Friday, 14 May 2021 06:36

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        To believe in the almost impressively porous plot of Those Who Wish Me Dead, you have first to believe in Angelina Jolie as a 'smoke-jumper', a specialist firefighter who parachutes out of planes to deal with rampaging forest blazes. Then you have to buy the idea that Jolie's character, Hannah, the only woman in a close-knit band of alpha males, might be the loudest, wittiest and hardest-drinking of them all, able to parry the merest hint of a suggestive remark with a wisecrack like a punch to the windpipe.Hannah has lips and cheekbones like no smoke-jumper in living memory, but her macho colleagues have evidently been trained not to notice them. If they do, they will surely dive into an inferno far worse than was ever ignited by a carelessly tossed cigarette end.Unfortunately, beyond the laddish banter, all is not well with Hannah. She is assailed by post-traumatic guilt, blaming herself for the loss of three young lives, having failed to suss the wind direction.Now, you'd think that her inevitable redemption, amid loads of terrifying footage of fires raging through Montana's forests with incredible, devastating swiftness — just 50 yards slower than Hannah's top sprinting speed, in fact — might be enough to sustain Taylor Sheridan's thriller.But no. It is an adaptation of Michael Koryta's novel of the same name, which means another weighty layer of plot involving a nosy accountant on the run from two ruthless assassins (Aidan Gillen and Nicholas Hoult, perpetuating the curious Hollywood rule that villains, even when they're given American accents, generally have to be played by actors from our side of the Atlantic, not theirs).Anyway, the accountant has discovered something so incriminating that the assassins seem prepared to commit mass murder, to torture a pregnant woman and to burn down half of Montana to stop it getting out. We never learn what it is.All we know is that the poor chap has passed his seismic secrets, on an old-fashioned piece of paper almost as if the internet age never happened, to his cute 12-year-old son, Connor (Finn Little).So, in a dispiritingly tinny echo of Peter Weir's 1985 classic Witness, the baddies' target becomes the kid. Can Hannah, into whom Connor unsurprisingly bumps while belting through a forest, save him? Heck, can she also save the forest? Well, it's Angelina Jolie, so anything is possible.The same is not so of Sheridan, whose credits include some terrific films (he scripted 2016's Hell Or High Water, one of my favourite modern-day westerns). Alas, my high hopes for this movie when I saw his name attached as director and co-writer were soon extinguished, leaving just a small, gently smouldering pile of expectations.The Secrets We Keep is another ropy thriller, set in Eisenhower-era smalltown America.
        Noomi Rapace plays Maja, a Romanian immigrant leading a wholesome suburban life with her kindly doctor husband (Chris Messina) and their young son, until the day she thinks she spots the former SS man who raped her and murdered her sister towards the end of the war, awakening terrible memories.This fellow, Thomas (Joel Kinnaman), turns out to be a European immigrant like her, but Swiss with a record of having worked throughout the war as a clerk in Zurich.Maja is certain he's lying, and by now has done what anyone would do in her circumstances (if only in films like this); belting him in the face with a hammer, bundling him into the boot of her car, and keeping him prisoner in the basement until he confesses to his crimes.Her nice husband is understandably more than a little nonplussed by all this, while Thomas's sudden disappearance sends his own wife frantic with worry.As Those Who Wish Me Dead is to Witness, so is The Secrets We Keep to Roman Polanski's 1994 film Death And The Maiden, dimly resonant but not remotely comparable. It is a thriller fatally devoid of thrills, and the occasional tension feels manufactured.At one point, writer-director Yuval Adler allows his camera to rest on a cinema showing Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest. Presumably, his intention is to fix the year as 1959. But the effect is to remind us of a filmmaker who knew how to electrify rather than anaesthetise an audience.Ironically, the new release least likely to have you slumping on the sofa is Some Kind Of Heaven, a documentary about the world's largest retirement community.There are 130,000 residents of The Villages, in Florida, which is billed as 'Disneyland for retirees'.Lance Oppenheim's film follows a few of them, as well as an elderly rascal who lives elsewhere but hangs out there on the lookout for affluent widows. He had no joy in the bars or the churches but found rich pickings at the swimming pools, in pursuit of his own inflatable version of the American Dream.

Those Who Wish Me Dead is in cinemas from Monday. The Secrets We Keep is on Sky Cinema; Some Kind Of Heaven on digital platforms, from today.

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Angelina Jolie reveals her six children have been 'making sure I am OK' after Brad Pitt split: 'They take such really good care of me and we're such a team, I am very lucky'

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Published on Wednesday, 12 May 2021 08:19

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         Angelina Jolie has been split from Brad Pitt for five years now.And the Oscar winning star, 45, told E! News on Monday that her kids have been helping take care of her. 'I have six very capable children,' said the actress, who was promoting her new film Those Who Wish Me Dead. 'Of course you wake up and you just feel like, "I've got to make sure they're OK. I've got to make sure they're mentally OK."' But honestly I think a few years ago it switched and they're thinking, "I've got to make sure mom's OK."'Angelina, who shares Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12, with Brad. Angelina proceeded to share: 'They take such really good care of me and we're such a team. So I am very, very lucky...So I worry. I'm always the one who worries but I adore them. They're cool people.' Jolie also joked about being single for such a long time and how her children help with her single motherhood.When asked about deal breakers when finding love, she said: 'I probably have a very long list [of nos]. I've been alone for a long time now.'Prior to Brad, Angelina wed Jonny Lee Miller in 1996 before splitting in 1999, secretly married Bill y Bob Thornton in 2000, before falling in love with Brad in 2005. Brad and Angelina announced their split in 2016 and were legally divorced in 2019, but things are far from amicable as she has alleged domestic abuse. They have been at war over their kids for five years, with Brad striving for 50/50 custody with Angelina wanting full physical custody. Three of her six children - Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, - were adopted, and three with Brad - Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12.  Those Who Wish Me Dead also stars Nicholas Hoult, Finn Little, Aidan Gillen, Medina Senghore, Tyler Perry, Jake Weber and Jon Bernthal.Directed by Taylor Sheridan, the neo-Western survival action-thriller is slated to premiere in the United States on May 14, 2021. She also plays the lead role in the superhero film Eternals, which is based on the Marvel Comics race of the same name. Chloé Zhao, who recently won two Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Director for the film Nomadland, directed the movie that drops November 5, 2021.The ensemble cast includes Richard Madden, Kumail Nanjiani, Lauren Ridloff, Salma Hayek, Brian Tyree Henry, Lia McHugh, Don Lee, Kit Harington, Gemma Chan and Barry Keoghan.

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Angelina Jolie shares the most important parenting lesson she learned from her late mother Marcheline Bertrand

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Published on Sunday, 09 May 2021 09:12

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          Angelina Jolie has candidly revealed the lessons she learned from her late mother Marcheline Bertrand. Speaking to  The Sydney Morning Herald this weekend, the Hollywood megastar, 45, praised Marcheline for being a 'gentle' mother and said she's always tried to treat her own children with the same tenderness.  'My mother was very gentle. I can be many things in my work and in life, but I am very warm and gentle with my children,' Angelina said. 'That kindness and warmth is a foundation that's unbelievably important. She gave me many other things and taught me many lessons,' she continued. But if you don't have that base, to feel valued and safe, then it's hard for any of the other messages or lessons to land.'Marcheline died in 2007 at the age of 56 following a lengthy battle with ovarian cancer. The Maleficent star also told the publication that she's stepped back from directing films to be able to focus on her six children. Angelina shares Maddox, 19, Pax, 17, Zahara, 16, Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 12, with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, whom she has been in the midst of a custody battle with since their separation in 2016.Pitt and Jolie famously fell in love on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith, while Pitt was still married to Jennifer Aniston. The couple married in France in 2014 after 10 years of dating, but split two years later in September 2016. While the couple were legally divorced in 2019, things are far from amicable. They have been at war over their kids for five years, with Brad striving for 50/50 custody with Angelina wanting full physical custody.

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