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Angelina Jolie, fewer sets and more family: “That’s why I left the direction”

“I love directing, but I’ve had a change in mine family situation which for some time has not allowed me to directing movies». Angelina Jolie he does not go around it too much: he does not get behind the camera of the 2016, the same year he presented petition for divorce from the now ex-husband, Brad Pitt: “I need to do shorter jobs and stay more at home ”, explains the actress a Entertainment Weekly. “This is the truth».

Names obviously don’t, but the connection between the two events is evident: the announcement of the separation between Angelina and the historical partner – a legal battle which continues today – coincides precisely with the shooting period of “First They Killed My Father”, the fourth and last directorial film signed by star americana, dopo «By The Sea» (2015), «Unbroken“(2014) and” In the land of blood and honey “(2011).

In the meantime, however, he continued to star in different films, last «Those Who Wish Me Dead», film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Michael Koryta, due out in May. “My character, Hannah, does not have a maternal personality. So the director had to correct the my behavior because I could not treat a child badly, it is not in the my natureHe revealed. “In the end though I’ve done it».

On the other hand that Angelina has a maternal side definitely noteworthy is nothing new: «I’ve always wanted a large family and to be a mother, but I imagined it a bit to Jane Goodall, traveling, in the jungle. I didn’t feel like one traditional momHe revealed to us two weeks ago from his villa in California where she lives with her six children, Maddox (19), Pax (17), Zahara (16), Shiloh (14) and the twins Vivienne e Knox (12).

A close-knit group, who spent under the same roof as well lockdown for the coronavirus: «In a way it made us all feel very human together».

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