Angelina Jolie: I Hate the Sound of My Own Voice
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Angelina Jolie's toughest critics? Her six kids with Brad Pitt.
The actress, who voices Master Tigress in Kung Fu Panda 2 (in theaters May 26) tells USA Today that her large brood -- including Maddox, 9, Pax, 7, Zahara, 6, Shiloh, 4, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 2 -- became "part agents, part managers" on set.
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"They'll sit in a room and say, 'That's just not funny,'" Jolie, 35, says, adding that their fresh opinions "keep you competitive, even if they think Jack Black is always cooler than mom."
Though the film's 2008 predecessor was a blockbuster hit -- and "one of the kids' favorite movies" -- Jolie admits she often doubted her vocal talents.
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"You know, when you hear your own voice, you can find it quite boring and uninteresting," she explains. "Suddenly, you get very shy that your voice is not enough, because I'm not musical and I don't know my voice."
To gain confidence, Jolie looked to Black, 41, for support. "I was crazy about him. I had seen him in everything he'd done, but what I really knew him for was music," she says. "I don't have musical talent, so I always thought it was really cool that he could be an actor to a lot of us but equally a rock star."
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Jolie's nerves came back again when she and Pitt, 47, took the children to DreamWorks studios to see a rough cut of the film.
"I wondered how they'd respond to the themes of the film," she says, noting that she and Pitt were "sensitive to see if there was going to be a big discussion that night about adoption and orphanages."
Fortunately, there wasn't. "But that's because we talk about those issues at my house all the time, very openly," she asserts. "We've had those discussions so often, they're such happy, wonderful discussions."
"We've got kids of all ages," Jolie continues. "So we joked that we had our own focus group."
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16I hate that woman, shes a horrible person inside and out! I dont blame herself for hating her own voice, almost everybody hates her voice. and that skinny and bones body, not sexy at all!
Man is she loaded with make up, she looks much older then her 35 years, compared to others.
I love Angelina *and* Brad! I think she is an amazing woman, and the most beautiful woman in the world! And I could never hate her voice! Team Angie all the way!!
Yuk, can't stand her. Whether she says she can or cannot stand her own voice, I can't stand it. She is shrill.
She never said she hates the sound of her own voice :/
Even plastered with make up she looks older then 35.
I will simply block her (Patrice Love) if she does. Her children have everything materially, but one of the most important things..their "parents" time, isn't there. These kids are hauled around like the luggage.
FYI. Careful with your words. A person named Patrice Love will send you a offensive message on FB just because she does not like what you said about her fav. star(s). I don't know her but I can tell she is a nut case. Heads up!
Wow all of these comments are so negative, people really. I think she has done an amazing thing for her adopted children. What kind of lives would they have had otherwise, and it is crystal clear she loves and respects each and everyone of her children. Team Angelina!
I can't stand her voice either. My niece was watching some movie with her in my den, and I asked her "who the heck is that? grates on your nerves", she said Angeina Jolie.
I think she looks gawgeous but brad pitt ruins her. She should dump him.
She looks hard.
Eh, I guess she likes the babies daddy, since she's been with him longer than any other man she has hooked up with. Time will tell if she ever starts to get bored and leaves him in the dust.
I agree with her, any homewrecker has a terrible sounding voice.
you and me both lol
She would be a lot cooler if she lost the ugly botoxed baby daddy of hers. God he's so greasy and gross.