11Angelina Jolie as Maleficent
Angelina Jolie has herself admitted that she scared little kids while in costume on the set of Maleficent, with one kid actually saying, “Mommy, please get the mean witch to stop talking to me.” Her daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, who played young Aurora, was the only child who was not scared of her.
12Alexander (2004)
Colin Farrell who played Angelina Jolie’s son in the movie Alexander (2004) was just a year younger than her. Also for that movie, Angelina Jolie was to be clothed exactly as a woman of Olympias’ time. Her costume included a long dress and shawl that would have fully covered her entire body, including her hair. Jolie objected strongly and insisted her character wear far less clothing to emphasize her sexual power.
13Mr. & Mrs. Smith Censored Scene
In order to get a wider PG-13 audience for Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a very steamy sex scene between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie was cut.
14Jolie-Pitt Marriage
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt married on August 23, 2014 in Château Miraval, the couple's estate in France. By the Sea (2015) marked the first time since the wedding that they appeared together in a feature film and they divorced a year later. This actually continued an urban myth which states that married celebrity couples appearing in films together often end up divorcing each other. Other notable examples include Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman following Eyes Wide Shut (1999); Madonna and Sean Penn following Shanghai Surprise (1986); and Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor after Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004).
15Angelina Jolie Divorce
Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie who co-starred ‘The Tourist’ (2010), both saw their marriages fall apart in 2016. Angelina Jolie surprised everybody by initiating divorce proceedings from Brad Pitt, following altercations over the rearing of their children, while Johnny Depp's marriage to Amber Heard came to an acrimonious end in the full glare of the tabloids.
16Angelina Jolie ‘Girl, Interrupted (1999)’
Angelina Jolie avoided any communication with Winona Ryder when making ‘Girl, Interrupted (1999)’, claiming that if she saw anything human about Ryder, she would not have been able to act out the sociopath character Lisa Rowe as effectively. She won Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in this movie.
17The Bone Collector (1999)
Angelina Jolie has admitted in interviews that she shot nude scenes for the movie ‘The Bone Collector (1999),’ but director Phillip Noyce cut them, feeling they distracted from the story. Before that Angelina Jolie said something similar in an interview for a different film. She said that she filmed two sex scenes for the movie Playing God (1997), but that they were cut from the film.
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18Angelina Jolie in Foxfire (1996)
During an interview for promoting the movie Foxfire (1996), Angelina Jolie said that she grew close to one of her co-stars, Jenny Shimizu. She said, “I fell in love with her the first second I saw her. I realized that I was looking at her in a way that I had looked at men. And it was great, and it was a discovery. It had never crossed my mind that I was going to one day experiment with or kiss a woman, it was never something I was looking for. I just happened to fall for a girl. I would probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married [Jonny Lee Miller.]"
19Jolie & Haven Controversy
Upon winning her Oscar for ‘Girl, Interrupted,’ Angelina Joie kissed her brother James Haven on the lips and said, “I’m so in love with my brother right now.” This started the circulation of rumors in tabloids of her having an incestuous relationship with her brother. It got so bad that Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors.
20Jolie's Plot to Capture Kony
In 2012, the International Criminal Court asked Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt to help them capture dangerous Ugandan guerilla leader Joseph Kony by luring him to dinner with them and then capturing him. Jolie was excited at first but then became increasingly unsure about the prospect of acting as a Bond film-style honeytrap. The plot fizzled from there.
