Angelina Jolie is the cover star for the November 2015 issue of Wall Street Journal Magazine.
Photographed by Peter Lindbergh and styled by Anastasia Barbieri, the honored recipient of WSJ Magazine's Entertainment/Film Innovator of the Year award talks about her life, her health, husband Brad Pitt and her new movie "By the Sea" in which she starred alongside Pitt as well as served as director.
Angelina on shooting emotionally difficult scenes with Brad: "We had to stay in our corners, like boxers, and not be husband and wife. It was very hard to do those scenes without Brad and I taking care of each other. Normally in between takes, you'd make sure that the other's okay, but we had to be able to really get ugly."
Angelina on ensuring her children never worry about her: "I want to make sure my kids are never worried about me. Even if I'm going through something, I make sure they are very aware that I'm totally fine. I'll stop and make a joke, I talk to them. I never, ever want them to have that secret worry and feel that they have to take care of me."
Angelina on their life at home: "We wake up, we make breakfast. In our domestic life, we're Mum and Dad. And often we're dorky Mum and Dad, which the kids find ridiculous."
Brad on filming By the Sea almost immediately after their wedding: "That this became our honeymoon is just f*cking funny."
Brad on Angelina's decision to tell the public about her mastectomy and ovary removal: "She's never been a person who hides. She's utterly forthcoming and sincere about who she is."
Brad on Angelina's family history of both breast and ovarian cancer: "You have to understand that this is a woman who never knew she'd make it to 40. This is a woman who had watched her mother, aunt, and grandmother become sick and eventually succumb, all at an early age. Her drive, her absolute value in herself, is defined by the impact she can have during her time here for her kids and for the underprivileged and those suffering injustices."
Brad on their dynamic on the set of By the Sea: "Being a couple, we have that shorthand that can be communicated in a look. Conversely, it means I knew immediately if she felt a take stunk."
Brad on Angelina's directing skills: "My director has an elegant intuition for character. And anyway, I trust her with my life."
Brad on his perspective on Angelina's movie career: "I'm not sure she ever really enjoyed acting, but was doing it more for her respect for artists and her mother, who loved the art. With writing and directing she has discovered her own joy within it."
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