Soon-to-be-divorced from Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie now has six children to care for single-handedly when they travel with her on business.
But the actress has now given insight into her ‘military-style’ operation and how the ‘older children help the younger ones’ in their ‘efficient’ family network.
Single mum Angelina, 42, was speaking at the premiere of First They Killed My Father at Toronto Film Festival on Monday, as all of her children gathered to support her.
Angelina has children Maddox, 16, and Pax, 13, Shiloh, 11, Zahara, 12, as well as twins Knox and Vivienne, both nine.
She worked alongside her eldest sons on the film, which the raven-haired beauty also directed, and the star has admitted it was a ‘joy’ for her to have her children on board.
Speaking to Entertainment Tonight Canada, Angelina said: ‘It was a joy. I want them to have a strong work ethic. When I looked over and I saw [Maddox] and Pax working with the other crew […] it was just wonderful.’
First They Killed My Father was filmed in Cambodia, the country from which Maddox was adopted.
Not only does Angelina think the backdrop of the movie has educated her son, but she also hopes the entire movie, which depicts the life of a human rights activist and child soldier who fights in the Cambodian genocide, will open the eyes of her audience to the suffering the ‘Cambodian family’ endured and their ‘beautiful culture’.
The Maleficent beauty also revealed now her children are getting older it has taken the strain off of her, especially when it comes to packing for a trip away.
She said: ‘Packing for me is like a military exercise. They’re getting older now, so the older ones help the younger ones, and actually they’re quite efficient.’
The children were certainly a testament to their strong mother when they joined her on the red carpet on Monday.
Speaking recently at the Toronto Film Festival for her hopes for her children, Angelina revealed: I hope they’re being raised to see the value of diversity, the value of other people. They ask the questions we’re all asking.
She continued: ‘They see what’s happening in Syria or in Myanmar and they ask why, and we’re all trying to find the same answers. I will look for all different ways to communicate about their histories and really to teach them.’
‘We homeschool and I’m very very aware of their education, mostly very aware of what’s lacking.
‘For example it’s very important to me my daughter Zahara doesn’t start learning about her history through the civil rights movement in America, that’s not how she begins to learn about herself as a young African-American.
‘She needs to learn about the great history of Africa and who she is…and not start with the civil rights (movement),’ the talented star included.
Proud Angelina, who co-wrote and co-produced the film, beamed in an elegant slinky black dress.
Off the shoulder at the right side, Angelina’s premiere dress featured a sash of black fabric and a nearly full sleeve at the left, plus an asymmetric hem.
Balancing on a pair of black heels, she’d slicked her hair back and wound it into a ponytail, accessorizing the ensemble with a pair of Samer Halimeh diamond earrings
Kimhak Mun and Sareum Srey Moch, child actors who star in the movie, posed with Angelina and her six children, as well as with Luong Ung, whose story the film tells.
First They Killed My Father is adapted from the harrowing 2000 memoir of the same name by Cambodian writer Loung.
It recounts her life as a child in the 1970s under the brutal Khmer Rouge, as she and her family struggled to survive the murderous regime of Pol Pot.
Luong attended Monday’s premiere in a stylish pair of white slacks she’d teamed with an off-the-shoulder black blouse, rounding out the look with black shoes.
Variety reported Monday that the film will start playing this Friday in 10 American movie theaters, though it’s still scheduled to go on Netflix on Friday as well.
Angelina adopted from Cambodia in 2002, three years before she began her relationship with Brad, though Brad later adopted him and their son is now Maddox Jolie-Pitt.
It was in 2005 that Brad infamously left his first wife Jennifer Aniston for Angelina, and that was also the year Angelina adopted Zahara, whom Brad also soon adopted.
Shiloh, Angelina and Brad’s first biological child, was born in 2006, and the next year Angelina adopted Pax, whom Brad adopted once he was stateside, owing to a law in Pax’s native Vietnam whereby unwed couples couldn’t jointly adopt, per People.
Brad and Angelina’s biological twins were born to them in the South Of France in 2008, six years before the couple started a marriage that ruptured last year.
Premiere posing: Luong – who’d attended the premiere in chic white trousers and a black off-the-shoulder blouse – posed along with Angelina, her children and the two child stars
Whilst outside at the premiere, Angelina was seen gracefully posing for a selfie with a fan, as well as signing an autograph for another one.
Cambodian documentarian Rithy Pahn, one of Angelina’s fellow producers on the movie, arrived at the premiere in a black suit, matching black hat and white shirt.
Angelina posed affectionately with Rithy, standing behind him with her hands at his shoulders as the two of them smiled for the cameras.
The pair seemed to be having a ball on the premiere red carpet, Rithy pointing playfully as Angelina gestured toward herself, bending a bit at the waist.
First They Killed My Father had its Cambodian premiere in Siem Riep on February 18, and its American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado on September 2.
Held at the Princess Of Wales Theatre in Toronto’s Entertainment District, Monday’s premiere has been part of a chockablock day for Angelina in Canada.
She also spoke that day at The Women In The World Canada Summit, where the lineup included none other than incumbent Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Tina Brown, who went from editor-in-chief of Vanity Fair to editor-in-chief of The New Yorker to founder of The Daily Beast, interviewed Justin, per Maclean’s.
According to The Canadian Press as run online by The Toronto Star, Angelina said at the Women In The World Canada Summit: ‘There’s just so much for all of us to do and the first and foremost is we have to just get the best education.’
She’s explained: ‘With all that’s accessible to us sometimes we get completely overwhelmed and we don’t know what to believe and what to do, so I’m just trying to listen to other women, I’m trying to lend my voice where possible. We all need to do, I think, even more than we’ve ever done because we’re at a very dark time.’
Source: dailymail.co.uk
