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Angelina Talks About Brad, Jen and Her Family

Tue, 12/12/2006 - 10:13am by PopSugar
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Angelina has never really spoken about falling in love with Brad and how their relationship developed. For the first time she is telling all about meeting him on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, falling in love and the life they share with their three kids. She is also speaking a bit about meeting Jen. Here's more:

"Not as exciting as what a lot of people would like to believe," Jolie said. "We spent a lot of time contemplating and thinking and talking about what we both wanted in life and realized that we wanted very, very similar things."

"And then we just continued to take time. We remained very, very good friends - with this realization - for a long time," she added.

"And then life developed in a way where we could be together, where it felt like something we would do, we should do."

Jolie said she has only briefly met Aniston and would gladly sit down with her - but only of the "Friends" star asked to do so.

"I did [once meet Aniston], but it was not a proper meeting. We've, like, passed each other and said 'hi' briefly, shook hands. But not a real sit-down-and-talk kind of meeting," Jolie said.

"That would be her decision [for a long sit-down], and I would welcome it."

To read more of the interview from the upcoming issue of Vogue and for more pics from the Jolie-Pitt family from Hello, just read more

In her first in-depth words about life as half of Tinseltown's first couple, Jolie tells Vogue magazine she never wanted to ruin Pitt's marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston - it just happened that way.

"I didn't know much about exactly where Brad was in his personal life [when they met on the set of "Smith"]. But it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects," Jolie said in a revealing interview in the magazine's January issue.

"And so we were both living, I suppose, very full lives."

Jolie said she was committed to life as a single mom when she was paired with Pitt in the espionage action flick.

"Brad was a huge surprise to me," she said. "I, like most people, had a very distant impression of him from . . . the media.

"I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn't," she said. "I was quite content to be a single mom."

The "Tomb Raider" babe admitted she was thrilled working with Pitt every day while shooting "Smith" in 2003 and 2004.

"Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, 'God, I can't wait to get to work,' " she said.

"Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts - anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair."

While Jolie adamantly insisted she and Pitt were not seeking to pair up, the pouty-lipped bombshell confessed they were tempted to make more of what they had.

"And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we'd earlier allowed ourselves to believe," Jolie said. "And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration."

Jolie said she and Pitt remained "very, very good friends" after shooting "Smith." They were resigned to staying nothing more than pals, Jolie said, until Pitt and Aniston announced their breakup in early 2005.

Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce that spring, amid rampant reports that the Hollywood hunk had his eye on Jolie the whole time.

Vogue didn't directly press Jolie on whether she and Pitt fooled around behind Aniston's back. But Jolie said she realized, early on, that she shared a deep, emotional bond with Pitt before they formally hooked up post-Aniston.

"Not as exciting as what a lot of people would like to believe," Jolie said. "We spent a lot of time contemplating and thinking and talking about what we both wanted in life and realized that we wanted very, very similar things."

"And then we just continued to take time. We remained very, very good friends - with this realization - for a long time," she added.

"And then life developed in a way where we could be together, where it felt like something we would do, we should do."

Jolie said she has only briefly met Aniston and would gladly sit down with her - but only of the "Friends" star asked to do so.

"I did [once meet Aniston], but it was not a proper meeting. We've, like, passed each other and said 'hi' briefly, shook hands. But not a real sit-down-and-talk kind of meeting," Jolie said.

"That would be her decision [for a long sit-down], and I would welcome it."

Jolie said she doesn't plan to marry Pitt, but they're committed to raising their boy and two girls.

She gave birth to their daughter, Shiloh, earlier this year, after adopting Maddox from Cambodia in 2002 and taking in Zahara from Ethiopia in 2005.

"We both have been married before, so it's not marriage that's necessarily kept some people together.

"We are legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the most important thing," she said.

Jolie said she hasn't spoken to her dad, actor Jon Voight, for five years.

Although she keeps up with mom Marcheline Bertrand, Jolie said she doesn't allow many people into her inner circle.

"I don't trust anyone," Jolie admitted.

"I don't think it's a good thing. This is going to make you think that maybe I should get some therapy, but trust is such a bizarre word. I'd like to say that I trust my mother, but I also don't know if she might do something that she thinks is in my best interest.

Still, "I trust Brad will never do anything," she said.

But after a few moments, Jolie then added, "I don't know. I don't trust anybody completely."

Jolie said she won't wear emotions on her sleeve - because it wouldn't do her any good.

"It's not going to accomplish anything to cry. It's not going to help you to get a hug!" she said.

"I'm not a hugger. People make fun of me. It's something that I have a hard time with. If someone hugs me, I hold my breath. Snuggling, cuddling, hugging, crying . . . all that stuff makes me very uncomfortable."

Except when it comes to her kids, the star said.

"Oh, I love hugging my kids," she quickly added. "It's a different thing because you feel such a genuine grab from them."

The actress, once married to Hollywood bad-boy Billy Bob Thornton, conceded that she once lived life too close to the edge.

That all changed once she had children.

"I'm committed to the future now," Jolie said. "I'm committed to life. I think definitely before my son, I was a little nihilistic. But once I adopted Mad [Maddox], I knew I was never going to be intentionally self-destructive again."

"I'm starting to be able to see being 50 years old with the kids graduating from high school."

Vogue's glossy, 14-page spread on Jolie includes several shots by famed celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz.

The 31-year-old Jolie managed to ooze sexuality in the magazine package, even as she showed off her passion for motorcycles and flying in the unforgiving California desert.

She's in the upcoming Robert De Niro spy thriller, "The Good Shepherd," starring alongside Matt Damon.

The flick premiered at the Ziegfeld Theater in Midtown last night, and she and Pitt immediately stole the show as soon as they hit the red carpet.

Jolie's next big flick will be portraying the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl in "A Mighty Heart." It was a role that Aniston had once said she would "love" to play.

Jolie said it was her children - basically Maddox - who ultimately cemented her relationship with Pitt as a family.

One day, Maddox "just out of the blue called him Dad," she said. "It was amazing. We were playing with cars on the floor of a hotel room, and we both heard it and didn't say anything and just looked at each other.

"So that was probably the most defining moment, when he decided that we would all be a family," she said.

Jolie said that in addition to Pitt being a great dad, he has a "wicked sense of humor" and, "He's a great challenge to me."

"We're constantly in competition with each other," she said. "He's somebody I admire based on the way he lives his life."

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  • tharightgurl4u's picture
    tharightgurl4u
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    Damn that is a nice looking family! I cant say nothing mean SHILOH IS TOO CUTE!! but why are they being open with the public all of a sudden??

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • jaxon's picture
    jaxon
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    While they may not have physically cheated while he was married there was some obvious emotional cheating on Brad's part. It's water under the bridge now but it's still messed up.

    Shiloh is a cutie. I love the chubby cheeks...
    Zahara and Madd too... cute family

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • Trixie6's picture
    Trixie6
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    I love this family. Baby Shiloh is just as gorgeous as Maddox & Zahara.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • tharightgurl4u's picture
    tharightgurl4u
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    Damn the way Angie explains it they did kind of hook up while Brad was still married or they thought about it....But on his behave in an interview I think Jen or her bf Courtney Cox did say that he did go to Jennifer and tell her he was developing feelings for Angie

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • JK Boogie's picture
    JK Boogie
    9

    getting it the second it comes out.

    I still have the Shiloh Hello Issue

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • SWEET C's picture
    SWEET C
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    ya i get that vibe too that things started before the divorce announcemet

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • popstar's picture
    popstar
    12

    Everyone is saying shiloh is soo cute. Is it just me then? I don't think she's that cute! Maybe in the first picture... but the last one of her just doesn't get me.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • mar's picture
    mar
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    lol BB- you know what, I totally beleive this is how it went down, before she said anything, that is how I pictured them, wanting to get together on the set, but knowing it may just be a quick feeling that would pass, I think the time after the movie stopped shooting, they still hela a torch for eachother, and that is when they realized they should not be ashamed , it was REAL. Not just some fling.

    Honestly, i think in Hollywood, a lot of the on screen couples have chemistry, but once you are finished filming, its like "on to the next co star", but with these 2, I think there was a HUGE connection AFTER, which usually means it really meant something.

    I respect her for talking a bout this, she is being open and candid, and I have to admire this.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • jaxon's picture
    jaxon
    14

    maybe a quick smooch or two b4 the announcement Sweet C lol

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • jaxon's picture
    jaxon
    16

    By the by... what's with the trend of highlighting kids hair? I think its too much. I was out and I saw a four year old girl with her hair highlighted. It seems parents are trying to turn their kids into little adults, its why kids are so freakin crazy nowadays

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • SWEET C's picture
    SWEET C
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    one thing that always bothered me that brad never went to the friends finale..he chose to stay on the set of mr and mrs smith. the writing was on the wall then

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • kelly's picture
    kelly
    18

    Sooooo sweet!Waiting for the haters to come though...

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • kelly's picture
    kelly
    19

    I wonder what they are looking at in the first pic.Look at Mad's face lol!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • mar's picture
    mar
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    emotional " cheating" is something I do not think you can control. Hitting it off with someone to the point that you develop feeling for is human nature. We are human, our emotions sometimes can be uncontained. Its when you start having a physical , sexual relationship behind your spouses back that I really condsider cheating. Call me a bad person, but that is how I see it.

    I also do not think you can emotional cheating unless you are not satisfied with the relationship you are in. In other words , whatever you do not get out of your current relationship, you may find in another person, and that sometimes in uncontrollable.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • italygal's picture
    italygal
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    you know i love how people are like, well, if they didn't cheat physically THEY CHEATED EMOTIONALLY! HOW HORRIBLE!! BURN THEM!!! actually, what they did is so much better. you can't control how you feel about someone, but you can control acting on it. and the more you try to fight feeling something for someone usually the stronger the feeling gets. emotions can't be helped. so for crying out loud, give them a break!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • mar's picture
    mar
    23

    wow, I really should of read that before I hit POST, but you can get the gist....

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • bluejeanie's picture
    bluejeanie
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    i kind of wish that brad and angie had kept that part of the relationship private though. reading this made me kind of sad.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • italygal's picture
    italygal
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    mar you beat me to it. nice to see someone else sees things the same way!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • bluejeanie's picture
    bluejeanie
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    i read somewhere that women are far more hurt by emotional cheating and men by physical cheating...do you guys think this is true?

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • Beth1122's picture
    Beth1122
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    I have to admit, after reading that I actually think i might like Angelina a little bit. I have always thought that she is overrated but I guess she does seem pretty awesome...as much as that pains me to admit!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • italygal's picture
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    i think its true to some extent bluejeanie. but it's irrational anyway on the woman's part. which isn't to say i haven't felt that way but everytime i remind myself that you can't force someone to have feelings for you or stop having feelings for someone else so, what's the point in getting angry? now if a guy cheats, then you have a right to be angry.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • bluejeanie's picture
    bluejeanie
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    meh, i just don't like knowing that a marriage had to end for this family to be complete. i still like them though, i just wanted to pretend that nothing happened while brad was still married to jen.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • SWEET C's picture
    SWEET C
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    i mean it is what it is . and they are a family now and seem to heave ther act together. i guess what makes me sad is that several times angie refers to jen as brads best friend. and altho it mite have not been a perfect marriage . i just cannot imagine what jen must have felt like when brad came home and said, i met my soul mate. i mean i cant imagine it happening to me

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • lula29's picture
    lula29
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    I'm glad she's talking about him because it shows they are solidifying their relationship and it's time to kind of put all the speculation to rest. People have been raging this internet war over why he left for far to long.

    This is Jolie's perspective, when Pitt talks about his side, if he ever does, then we will get the full picture.

    I think at the end of the day, Jolie didn't know anything about his relationship with Aniston. He appeared happy to her and she wasn't expecting to fall for him or vice versa.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • amyfinke's picture
    amyfinke
    34

    I hated Brad and Angelina together at first because I thought she was a home-wrecking wh*re (ok, well maybe I still think that a little!), but they are growing on me. With that aside, Shiloh has GOT to be the most adorable baby ever!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • Mrs Lachey's picture
    Mrs Lachey
    35

    i hate them! their kids are cute but i dont like either one of them. angelina is a homewrecker and brad is a cheater. im sooo TEAM ANISTON!!!!!

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • kelly's picture
    kelly
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    That's really sad what you said SWEETC!But certainly true.I think what happened was hard for the 3 of them.But at the end of the day a beautiful human being came to this world....princess Shilooooooooh lol!Ok i stop being silly.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • meggnog's picture
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    Angelina definitely portrays a likable mother here, I just am a little sad also... that a marriage had to end for this relationship. I'm still on Team Jennifer - I don't care how cute this family is Smiling

    I have to disagree with emotional cheating being out of a person's control. No. Sure, they worked together every day and they had a lot of stuff in common, that doesn't mean that Brad should need to betray the person that loves him. I think emotional cheating is terrible, personally. It can be avoided by avoiding the person you're attracted to.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • bluejeanie's picture
    bluejeanie
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    yeah, that wouldn't make me feel very good either. i know that people can't always control emotions but i believe that we can control how we react to them. if i started to develop a huge crush on someone else, that would signal to me that something was missing in my marriage and i was seeking to fill that void emotionally in a way that was detrimental. i could figure out what was missing and then go try to fix it, instead of running off with someone else.
    i still don't know what was going on in brad and jen's marriage though and if they tried to fix it. i'm trying not to judge. i'm sort of a goofball romantic, i just wish that working through marital bumps was the norm instead of divorce.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • jaxon's picture
    jaxon
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    1st Italygal let me reread but pretty sure I didn't say "BURN THEM" In fact I said "It's water under the bridge" so if your going to respond to my posts get it right.

    2nd I happen to be religously minded and the bible says that if you lust after someone in your heart then you have committed adultry. I think you can control your feelings people like to use feelings as an excuse. If you feel yourself becoming close to someone in that way (just as you would if you were careening off the road) you swerve away not just throw up your hands and say oh well I'll hit this tree. Your spouse is SUPPOSED to be your best friend the person you confide in

    3rd Before all the "It was two years ago get over it" backlash begins As I said before water under the bridge who cares they have all moved on. I have "given them a break"

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment
  • lula29's picture
    lula29
    40

    I agree with Sweet too, which is way all the Jennifer Aniston bashing has got to stop.

    I mean, she gave him a divorce, hugged him and said good-bye. She handled well. She could have been even more upset and spiteful, because that hurts man. But she wasn't so this whole TEAM crap really needs to end. Not that anyone on here is this way, but I just needed a place to say it.

    Also, I think Pitt and Aniston were friends, but I also think they had both grown out of their relationship. At the end they spent a lot of time apart and I just think it's time for a new chapter in both of their lives.

    1 year 42 weeks ago Report Comment