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Angelina Jolie says that Salt gave her an excuse to get out of bed after giving birth to her twins but she still felt a pang of guilt at times leaving her little ones at home.

The 35-year-old actress tells that after she gave birth to twins Knox and Vivienne, she needed to involve herself in an action flick like Salt as that drove away that feeling of ‘soft’ness.

Angelina said: “It was difficult to switch to being an action hero for a minute. But it was so nice to have an excuse to get out of bed and get back in action and not feel so soft with the pregnancy and all that comes with it after.”

But still at times, when she was shooting one or the other of those blood-chilling scenes, she felt that she did not belong there and should perhaps be at home feeding her newborns.

The mom in Angelina gushed- “I did have a moment where I found myself thinking, ‘I am somebody’s mom, I don’t belong here.’ I was on the freeway with somebody chasing me and two weeks before I was at home feeding the babies. I felt like, ‘Oh, they’ve got the wrong person.’ “

After all, it is no small task to handle a flourishing acting career and a bustling home made of six children and a superstar husband.

Source: Entertainment & Showbiz

HOLLYWOOD star Angelina Jolie, in Europe to promote her spy thriller Salt, has donated AU$110,448 to help refugees from Pakistan’s floods, UN sources told AFP.

A crowd of 1,000 fans engulfed the 34-year-old actress, who is also a goodwill ambassador for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, when she stepped out of a limousine in Paris on Tuesday evening clad in a short shiny number with plunging neckline for the French premiere of the movie.

A UNHCR source attending the gala screening said she had donated the sum to help relieve Pakistan, where aid has been short and slow in coming.

Source: Herald Sun

Could “The Tourist” be planning a last-minute trip to the Academy Awards?

That’s the first thing I thought of when I learned the Johnny Depp-Angelina Jolie had circled Dec. 10 as its release date. Directed by Florian Henckel Von Donnersmarck (“The Lives of Others”), “Tourist” is a romantic spy drama about an American (Depp) who enters into an affair with an international spy (Jolie). What sounds like a classic Hitchcock scenario is actually lifted from a 2005 French film titled “Anthony Zimmer.”

Though the release date certainly suggests an Oscar hopeful – late dates mean pictures stay fresh in Academy voters’ minds – The Playlist writes that those who believe this “haven’t read the script,” which they describe as “enjoyable” but “fluffy” and “escapist entertainment” that compares to Robert Downey Jr. in “Sherlock Holmes.”

Perhaps that means the Golden Globes will bite on Depp and Jolie for nods so that they can add glamour to the HFPA’s annual celebration.

Source: Hollywood News

The Hollywood couple – who raise children Maddox, nine, Pax, six, Zahara, five, Shiloh, four, and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, together – are keen for their offspring to embrace the European language to help them understand why the country is important to their family.

Angelina – whose late mother Marcheline Bertrand was of French Canadian descent – explained to BANG Showbiz, Right now they’re in the French programme and they’re doing very well. We want them to learn French and speak French because of our heritage.”

As well as Angelina’s beloved mother, France is special to the couple for other reasons, and was chosen to be the birthplace of their twin babies Knox and Vivienne.

The 35-year-old beauty gave birth to the tots at the Lenval hospital in nice, France in 2008.

Angelina was speaking at the gala premiere of ‘Salt’ at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square last night, August 16, where she looked stunning as she greeted hundreds of screaming fans.

She said, “I always enjoy London and this is amazing. It means so much when everybody comes out.”

The screen beauty also revealed she had brought her two youngest children with her while Brad looked after the eldest four at home.

She added, “I brought the babies. I’m having some special baby time.”

Source: Inquisitr

HollywoodNews.com: While Angelina Jolie is flattered that some creative out there sees her in the role of Marilyn Monroe, alas she will not be playing the famed actress.

“This is a new rumor,” Jolie told reporters at the “Salt” London premiere, “It sounds very nice – I just haven’t got the phone call yet. You guys will probably know before I do.”

“Angelina is NOT attached to this project,” Jolie’s rep told the L.A. Times.

Author Andrew O’Hagan recently announced that Jolie beat out Scarlett Johansson and Christina Hendricks to play the part of Monroe in the feature adaptation of his novel “The Life And Opinions Of Maf The Dog, And Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe. “

O’Hagan’s novel is a bestseller in the U.K., but won’t hit U.S. shelves until December. The story is told from the p.o.v. of Monroe’s pooch Mafia Honey (“Maf”) who was gifted to her by Frank Sinatra in 1960. Maf witness the final two years of Monroe’s life.

Source: Hollywood News

Angelina Jolie has gotten the gig most actresses in Hollywood would die to get. Jolie will play Marilyn Monroe in the movie version of The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog.

Although there is no official confirmation, author Andrew O’Hagan confirmed the news to the London Telegraph.

Angie will star alongside George Clooney who will play Frank Sinatra. That should be a fun movie set considering the fact that Clooney is BFF’s with Brad Pitt.

According to the Telegraph, “The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog, and of His Friend Marilyn Monroe follows Monroe’s last two years through the eyes of her pet, Maf, a Maltese terrier which was a gift from Sinatra in 1960.”

Marilyn Monroe is the idol of so many Young Hollywood stars so they’re definitely gonna hate on Angie for getting this part.

Source: Hollyscoop

Actress Angelina Jolie, in Tokyo for the weekend opening of action thriller “Salt,” brushed off rumors about her shaky relations with Brad Pitt.

“He was just a wonderful father,” she said Tuesday of Pitt, during work on the film, in which she plays a tough spy. He often brought the children to the set, she recalled.

“They played with fake blood, and they found mommy very strange in her different hair,” she said.

Pitt and Jolie have been partners since they began a relationship while working on the 2005 film “Mr. & Mrs. Smith.” They are raising six children.

Last week, Pitt and Jolie accepted undisclosed damages in London’s High Court to settle a privacy claim against a British tabloid that had reported in January that they were planning to split.

Asked about her ability to work and maintain a happy family, Jolie told reporters at a Tokyo hotel: “Brad is the word that makes it possible.”

Jolie, who arrived Monday, brought four of the children along on the Japan trip. They have already spent some time shopping for toys inspired by Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki’s animation characters Ponyo and Totoro, she said.

Jolie, 35, acknowledged she once surprised her 8-year-old son Maddox with her disguise as a male naval officer in “Salt.”

He came into the room and reluctantly shook hands with the person he didn’t know was his mother.

“And I said, ‘Honey, it’s mommy,’” Jolie said.

“I think I freaked him out,” she said with a laugh, adding that he then watched her peel off her fake ears, hands and nose.

“I play these roles, but I’m always in every minute their mom first,” she said. “I’m a bit of a goofy. I’m funny at home, I think.”

Her children aren’t going to be seeing the movie, though.

“I think it’s very hard for them to see someone trying to kill their mom, even if she wins,” she said.

Source: Olean Times Herald