Post by dvbalove ♥ on May 22, 2007 3:57:19 GMT
Angelina Jolie sat down with NBC's Ann Curry for a chat to promote her new movie, A Mighty Heart. The interview is scheduled to air this morning on the Today show. Here is an excerpt from their chat.
On Lies In The Media:
Ann Curry: So if I asked you, for example, right now what's something that's untrue that you would like to say right now is not true, you wouldn't know what was untrue that was written about you?
Angelina Jolie: No.
Ann Curry: Nothing?
Angelina Jolie: No. I mean, I can assume. You know, I know there's a cycle of certain things that they keep rewriting or whatever, but I can - and I can assume things made up. But - but, no, I haven't - I haven't a clue. You know? I - (LAUGHTER) and - and why - why would I, you know? There's nothing - there's nothing I have to hide or defend. Or - you know, I'm gonna live my life. And there are gonna be times when people wanna try to attack me and I don't know why, but they will. And that's okay. And this-
Ann Curry: It's okay?
Angelina Jolie: Well, there are other things I'm more concerned about. My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. Before I do, I wanna do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and - and that's my focus. At the end of the day, I'm gonna - I'm gonna be dead one day. And what people say about me is gonna be what I accomplished and what I did in my life and how my children are. And I don't think it's gonna be whatever was...
Ann Curry: Is there anything you'd like to say to people listening now because you now have an unedited audience here - an unedited opportunity to give people to unvarnished truth about who you are and what you stand for. Is there anything that you want to say about yourself?
Angelina Jolie: No. I mean... I have always been honest about who I am, and I've always been very outspoken to press. I think people have heard a lot from me (LAUGHTER) over the years. And - and you do hear more, you know?... People wanna believe negative things, they will. And I can't - I can't - you know, I can't help that.
On her role in A Might Heart:
Ann Curry: It's interesting. I was reading that you were actually six months pregnant when you first talked to Mariane.
Angelina Jolie: I was six months pregnant and - and...
Ann Curry: But that helped you empathize?
Angelina Jolie: But it was. It was - it was also a very interesting thing because it was, you know, for as much as I was kind of waddling around and feeling the heat and being - I - I couldn't help but look over at this woman and think, "God, she is - she is where I'm at now and I'm having - and not just the physical thing of being pregnant and, oh, that's difficult. And - but I have - I have this man with me who's helping me through this and loves me.
And it's - and it's a joyous moment. And we - and we're about to now also have a baby, and we're gonna look at this baby together across the room at each other. And it's all those things that make that so much more. And to - to not just physically be thinking, "God, how - how is this woman physically dealing with trying to maintain her strength and take care of this baby that's inside of her, working so hard and - and having so much emotional stress?"
But on top of it, what that took away from her, you know? What that took a - away from - from this time in their life, this is the happiest time in their life. And - and what that must be - I - I just can't imagine. I thought about that when I was breastfeeding. I thought about that all through kind of the birth of, you know, that haunted me and that - you know, when I was sitting her quiet, I would think, "God, what - just a few months after, what is that like? What is that like?"
Ann Curry: To play her was not easy. To play her at this time of her life was not easy.
I've played real people before, but I-- I never knew them. And, you'd think that would be easier. (LAUGHTER) I did. I think at first but the day before we started shooting, I was - I had - I hardly slept and I was in a panic. And - and - you know, it - I had gotten to know her and I'd gotten to know their son. And the thought that he would see this one day. It was my responsibility to not just show the world but also show him how much his mother loved his father and how much they loved each other and how they handled this time. It was something that haunted me through the whole thing and haunted, I think, everybody involved. Nobody ever really voiced that and nobody really talked about it, but I'm sure it was something that um - and - she did become a friend. So how do you - how do you play - I'm sure if somebody said to you, you know, your great girlfriend has gone through the most horrible thing in her life. Why don't you stand up and show us what she went through and how it felt?
Video of interview HERE or HERE