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Angelina Jolie has spoken out about how her outlook has changed as she's gotten older.
The 49-year-old Hollywood star recently received an eight-minute standing ovation for her portrayal of Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín's biopic about the life of the opera singer. While promoting the film at the 2024 Telluride Film Festival, Jolie explained to IndieWire How your relationship with music, specifically opera, is different now than it was when you were younger.
“I’m 49. I feel like an older woman now and I embrace that,” Jolie said on Sept. 2. “When I was younger, there were certain pieces of music and certain sounds that matched what I was feeling — I was falling in love, or I was curious about this, or whatever was going on.”
He Pernicious The actress made similar comments at the Venice Film Festival on August 29, when she shared how her musical taste has evolved with her age.
“I was more of a punk. I loved all music, but I probably listened to The Clash more than most, and as I got older I also listened to classical music and opera,” he said. “I think there’s something I still love about the same music I loved when I was younger. I’ll still listen to The Clash.”
It seems like aging is on Jolie's mind as her youngest children prepare to turn 18. Jolie has 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox with ex-husband Brad Pitt, as well as sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 20, and daughters Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18. The former couple are in the midst of contentious divorce proceedings involving custody of the children and disagreements over their various properties.
Despite having grown up in Los Angeles, Jolie revealed that she plans to move out of Hollywood once her divorce battle is over and her twins are of age. “I have to be here after a divorce,” she explained to The Hollywood Reporter on August 30. “But as soon as they are 18, I can leave.”
Jolie shared that she plans to travel to Cambodia, where she adopted her son Maddox in 2002. “I’m going to be spending a lot of time in Cambodia,” Jolie explained. “I’m going to be spending time visiting my family wherever they are in the world.”
She continued: “When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, security. I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be… that humanity that I found on the other side of the world is not the one I grew up with here.”
Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 after two years of marriage and 12 years together. There has been much speculation about the Fight Club The star's alleged estrangement from his children, which appeared to be motivated by Jolie's abuse allegations made in a countersuit filed in 2022 against Pitt. Pitt's representatives have since refuted the allegations, calling them “completely false.”
In May, People reported that Vivienne was listed as Vivienne Jolie, rather than Jolie-Pitt, in the Playbill program The Outsiders on Broadway, where she worked as a production assistant. That same month, Shiloh immediately filed a petition to legally drop her father's last name upon turning 18. The change was granted in August, allowing her to legally use the name Shiloh Jolie instead of Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.
Meanwhile, a viral video previously revealed that Zahara was introduced by her college sorority as Zahara Marley Jolie, also excluding her father's surname.
