14 DAY TRIAL // Angelina Jolie promotes her latest project, the Disney live-animation “Maleficent,” with a brand new, no-holds-barred interview with the upcoming edition of Elle Magazine which, the preview online issue informs, will be featured in over 20 editions of the mag across the world.
From the preview, fans can gather they’re in for a major surprise because the actress, who has also branched out into screenwriting and directing, will be talking about matters she usually keeps close to her heart, like her family, her relationship with fiancé Brad Pitt, her charity work and, last but not least, her troubled younger years.
Perhaps Jolie’s fans of today, the younger ones, don’t remember the time when she used to walk the red carpet with a vial of husband Billy Bob Thornton’s blood or when she would passionately kiss her brother on the lips. They probably aren’t aware of the countless reports on her heavy drug use, troubled behavior, and strange hookups with random men and women.
That was Jolie before her major “reinvention,” which, some voices online say, she made happen by manipulating the media like no other celebrity before. Her fans, though, must have understood that she had simply lived through the experiences she had to go through in order to become the person she is today.
This is what she says too: at the time she was at her wildest, she was merely trying to find her voice. She wasn’t rebelling and she wasn’t trying to act out: she was simply trying to discover who she was.
“[Everything was] misinterpreted as [me] wanting to be rebellious. And in fact it wasn’t a need to be destructive or rebellious – it’s that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you. You want to be free. And as you start to feel that you are being corralled into a certain life, you kind of push against it. It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you’re trying to find out who you are,” Jolie tells the magazine.
She eventually found out that her biggest fear was that of living a life “half-lived,” which is when that drastic change in her occurred.
“I realized that very young – that a life where you don’t live to your full potential, or you don’t experiment, or you’re afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don’t get around to them, is a life that I’d be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I’m on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that’s maybe safe or traditional,” Jolie explains.
The interview will be accompanied by a full photospread, making up a 16-page feature. Some of the photos in the spread have been included in the gallery below: they’re stunning, black and white portraits of Angelina Jolie and they’re more than worth a minute of your time, even if you’re not a fan.
