Angelina Jolie reveals reason why her kids won’t follow in hers and Brad Pitt’s footsteps
Topics: Angelina Jolie, Celebrity, Brad Pitt
Gregory Robinson
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Topics: Angelina Jolie, Celebrity, Brad Pitt
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children have grown up with two incredibly famous and acclaimed actors as parents, however, it is unlikely that they will follow in their footsteps, according to their mother.
The Oscar-winning actors share Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins, Vivienne and Knox, with three of their children - Maddox, Pax, and Zahara - being adopted from Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia respectfully.
The former celeb couple's children are certainly no stranger to the spotlight as they've supported their parents on various red carpet appearances, and a five-year-old Vivienne even scored a cameo as a toddler Princess Aurora in 2014's Maleficent - all because she was the only one not afraid Jolie in her villainous getup.
However, it seems their children are paving their own career paths.
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The Wanted star debuted her latest film, Maria, which focuses on the final days of legendary opera singer Maria Callas, at the AFI last month, where she spoke to E! News about her children.
“No, I think they’re especially shy, very private people,” Jolie told the outlet. “They want to be private.”
However, Jolie revealed that her children do have an interest in working on films, even if they don’t want to star in them.
Her two oldest children, Maddox and Pax, worked on Maria by assisting director Pablo Larrain.
"Mad and Pax were on this one doing AD [assistant directing] work," the Salt star told The Hollywood Reporter in August.
“They’ve done that quite a few times, and I think that’s good for them. Pax tends to do stills and he gets brought in, and Pablo was wonderful and recognised that he was good at it."
Having her sons on set with her meant 'a lot' to her, as the actor added: "I have never had a set where my family is not allowed to be there because I’m focusing—I’m not that person."
She continued: “You can climb all over me or visit. It really meant a lot that my boys were with me on Maria. When I would have really heavy times, they would come over and just give me a hug or a cup of tea.
"That was probably one of the more intense things was that—usually when I’m expressing that much pain, it’s not in front of my children.
"You really try to hide from your children how much pain and sadness you carry.
"And so for them to be with you when you’re expressing it at such a level, I think it was the first time they ever heard me cry like that. That’s usually for the shower.
Jolie was in a high-profile relationship with Pitt from 2006 after meeting on the set of Mr & Mrs Smith in 2005.
They went on to marry in 2014 before going their separate ways in 2016.
The couple's three daughters, Vivienne, Shiloh and Zahara, also recently made the headlines for dropping their father's surname following the couple's divorce.