Actress Angelina Jolie, 46, may have done very well in films and on stage, but the Acting wasn’t his first choice when considering professions .
The Golden Globe, Oscar and Tony Award winner revealed on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” this Thursday (5) that, before dedicating herself to acting, she had studied to become a funeral director .
When asked “Why? As?” by Fallon, Jolie quipped, “Doesn’t that make sense?” before answering the question more seriously.
“My grandfather died and I remember thinking it shouldn’t be like this. It was supposed to be a celebration of life – and because I’m not afraid of death and I was comfortable with it, I thought it would be a great career for me,” she said.
“I could, like, improve this. I could do something here,” he added, before joking: “It’s my backup career.”
Asked if it was true that she considered becoming a pilot, Jolie replied: “Yes, I am a pilot.” Jolie obtained her pilot’s license in 2004, according to reports. However, she vehemently denied rumors that she had considered doing stand-up comedy, saying: “That’s definitely a no.”
“I could handle a funeral. I could handle 10,000 feet in the air, but no,” he added before pointing at Fallon and saying, “What you do terrifies me.”
Jolie spent months taking singing lessons to play legendary opera singer Maria Callas in her latest project, the biopic “Maria.” “I had never sung before,” Jolie said on the “Tonight” show, adding that she was “pretty sure” it was one of the things she didn’t know how to do. “I can’t sing.”
She said she had to learn to sing and, to calm her nervousness, she had a “great plan” at the beginning of filming. “I thought, I know what I’m going to do. It will be a fun gift for the beginning of the movie. I’m just going to buy earplugs for everyone,” she said, before admitting, “But I didn’t, I had to sing.”
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