Whereas Angelina Jolie is more than pleased to grace the film screens — she says her children should not.
The Maria star, 49, shared throughout a panel on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant on Wednesday, Feb. 5, that she did not assume that any of her six kids had an “affinity” for motion pictures.
“No. I don’t know, that is not my doing,” Jolie, who acquired the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award on the Pageant, stated. “I all the time wished them to be round movie as a result of I wished them to know as part of — it is such a beautiful household, to be artistic, to be an artist, to be… They are not .”
“They actually do not like every of the movie star a part of it, particularly Shiloh hates it,” she added. “I feel in a really wholesome manner they do not … It is not a traditional factor. It is a foolish factor actually.”
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Nevertheless, the Eternals actress additionally famous that it didn’t imply her kids — Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 20, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline, 16, whom she shares with ex-husband Brad Pitt, 61 — haven’t related with the artwork of movie in their very own methods.
“Sure, they have been on set with me,” Jolie continued whereas showing on the panel. “And a few of them dance, a few of them paint, a few of them love theater, however none of them are dying to be on display.”
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She stated the closest her kids have gotten to the display is doing work behind the scenes on a movie. Two of her sons, Maddox and Pax, did some assistant director work behind the screens of Maria.
“It is good to begin them in working,” she stated. “[You’ve] obtained to run round and do something for everyone. And they also’ve been doing that in just a few movies. After which Pax was doing a number of the pictures work.”
The actress’ daughter Vivienne has additionally dipped her toes into the leisure world co-producing Broadway’s The Outsiders alongside her mother in early 2024. She additionally labored as an assistant on manufacturing — one thing Jolie advised PEOPLE she took “very critically.”
“She’ll right me,” she revealed in April 2024. “She’ll say, ‘Did not you learn the memo? Now we have to do that. Now we have to undergo this.’ She’s been a extremely powerful assistant.”
Whereas her children aren’t clamoring to observe in her film star footsteps, Jolie additionally shared on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant that it was vital for her as a mom to present her kids “area” to determine what they need to do with their lives.
“And I feel for my kids … I hope I am giving them area to determine who they really are and one thing that they need to dwell for that is genuine to them so it holds of their life,” she stated.
