This week's cover: Angelina Jolie and Jack O'Connell in 'Unbroken'
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- Published on Monday, 24 November 2014 18:43
- Written by Entertainment Weekly
All she can see, in every direction, is water. It’s Oct. 16, 2013, the first day of filming on the WWII drama Unbroken, and a barge has taken Angelina Jolie, her crew, and an enormous crane camera onto the open Pacific off the coast of Queensland, Australia. As she stands on the ship, silhouetted by bright blue sky and deep blue sea, actors Jack O’Connell, Domhnall Gleeson, and Finn Wittrock float nearby in a small yellow raft. They are skinny and weak and starving, having subsisted on just 500 calories a day for two months. Suddenly, the wind picks up, stirring salt spray and waves. The crew on the barge begins to slip and fall. Jolie can barely hear O’Connell, her young star, deliver his lines, and for a moment she can’t even see him. As the camera zooms in for a close-up, he bobs helplessly in and out of frame.“If you saw that first shot and my reaction to it, you’d be absolutely sure that this was going to be one of the great disasters of filmmaking history,” Jolie says today with a smile, sitting on a sofa at Milk Studios in Los Angeles. “The only thing you could do was laugh at how insane this was all going to be. And then you just had to take a deep breath and figure out what to do next.”
Ah, the eternal unanswerable question: What will Angelina Jolie do next? In a life that has spanned her transformation from Gia Carangi to Evelyn Salt, from femme fatale to media-sainted ambassador, from wild child to mother of six, she has been everything except one thing: predictable. Now, on the heels of the highest-grossing film of her career, Maleficent, Jolie, 39, is shifting her focus from movie star to director. Unbroken, her $65 million period epic, is her most ambitious undertaking yet. “I didn’t know what I was up against when I was first getting into it,” Jolie says. “I had never done anything like it. I was up for the challenge, but I had so much to learn.” For more on Unbroken, including how Jolie cast the young British actor Jack O’Connell, pick up the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly on stands this Tuesday..
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Blurred Lines Girl, Emily Ratajkowski, Channels Angelina Jolie At Golden Globes Event
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- Published on Saturday, 22 November 2014 16:53
- Written by Yahoo ! Celebrity
Emily Ratajkowski is gorgeous, but she went to a whole new level as she channeled Angelina Jolie today.She starred as her sultry-self in Robin Thicke’s Blurred Lines video, and before that she was already carving out a successful career as a model – but if you needed any more proof of how stunning she is then just look at these photos.Emily pulled every single camera lense to her, as she attended an event at the Fig & Olive in Los Angeles.The jaw-droppingly stunning 23-year-old was dressed in an sexy yet understated black and gold dress that split at the thigh, and allowed her to use her long legs to channel Angelina’s 2012 Oscar pose.The fashion model, who was born in England, managed to look both stylish and seductive as she attended the Hollywood Foreign Press Association and InStyle celebration, in honour of Miss Golden Globe 2015 Greer Grammer.And, as soon as she hit the venue she managed to throw some serious pouts and poses for the cameras - but what would you expect from the girl who stole the show in the Blurred Lines video.Recently Emily, who has recently thrown herself into the acting game, has been keeping herself very busy as she not only starred in Ben Affleck thriller, Gone Girl, but she also appeared in the new Call of Duty video game trailer.
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Angelina Jolie Responds to Retirement Rumors & Says How Many More Movies She'll Act In
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- Published on Friday, 21 November 2014 20:19
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie rocks knee-high boots while arriving at Paley Center on Friday (November 21) in New York City.The 39-year-old actress was on hand to speak at the Paley International Council Summit.Angelina recently addressed rumors that she was retiring from acting.“I’ll do a few more,” Angelina shared in Variety‘s latest issue, which also has her on the cover. “I’m about to direct something with Brad and myself, in fact.”She added, “I’m happier when I get to put a camera on another actor and watch them do great work.”
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Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt's Son is a Production Assistant On Their Film 'By the Sea'!
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- Published on Friday, 21 November 2014 20:16
- Written by Just Jared
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt‘s son Maddox Jolie-Pitt is officially a working man! The 13-year-old son of the power couple was just revealed to be a production assistant on By the Sea, their new movie venture together.“It’s so weird,” Angelina, 39, said of having her son working on the movie in her latest magazine cover. Check out Angelina and the handsome Jack O’Connell on the cover of DuJour magazine’s latest issue – where she also talks about directing Brad in the film! By the Sea is expected to hit theaters next year.
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Angelina Jolie says ready to give up acting
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- Published on Thursday, 20 November 2014 13:58
- Written by Yahoo ! News
Hollywood A-lister Angelina Jolie says she plans to give up acting after a "few more" films and switch her focus to directing.Jolie walked the red carpet in Sydney with husband Brad Pitt this week at the premiere of her new movie, World War II epic "Unbroken", which was filmed in Australia.It was her second foray behind the camera after the critically-acclaimed 2011 "In the Land of Blood and Honey" and she said directing was now her passion and where she saw the future."I'll do a few more, but I'll be happy to let that all go at some point," she told the Sydney Morning Herald of acting, in comments published online Thursday."I love directing, I'm much happier directing," added the 39-year-old."I like following a project all the way through. I like spending two years on something and learning about it... I like being pushed mentally to have to learn so much and be a part of every single aspect of a production." She separately told The Australian newspaper that "unless I'm sure there's a role or something I should do or (that) really means something to me, I'd rather be spending my time telling stories from behind the camera".Jolie's new movie is based on the true story of a US Olympic athlete turned Japanese prisoner of war, Louis Zamperini, who competed in the 5,000m at the 1936 Games in Berlin before becoming a bombardier in World War II.When his plane crashed over the South Pacific, he spent 47 days adrift on a raft with a crewmate before being captured by Japanese soldiers in the Marshall Islands.
He was held in a prisoner of war camp for more than two years, enduring beatings and torture, before his return home.Jolie, who has been acting since she was a child, said her preference for being behind the camera did not mean she thought any less of acting or actors."I love actors, I love watching actors work, and I like to shine a light on them. I actually prefer it when it's not me," she told the Herald.Since wrapping up "Unbroken", Jolie has directed both herself and Pitt in the yet to be released "By the Sea", of which little is known."To direct myself was hard, to direct him (Pitt) was a challenge and to be in the scenes with him doing very heavy, heavy drama was difficult," she told The Australian."But it was also a great pleasure for us both to bust out of our comfort zones and just get back to being actors who work and fight through scenes and figure it out, and not be safe and not be sure and try and push." The last time they appeared on screen together was in "Mr and Mrs Smith" in 2005, during which they fell in love.
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