Angelina Jolie: "I Love Speaking Russian"
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Angelina Jolie has learned a new language of love.
"I love speaking Russian. It's very, very hard. I find it a very interesting sound because it can be so hard and strong and also very sensual and very beautiful," says Jolie, 35, who picked up the language for her new spy thriller, Salt (out July 23).
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Added Jolie (who spoke at a weekend event to promote the flick), "It's a very interesting sounding language. It took me a long time. I just had to practice over and over and over and I was told that I was getting it wrong a bunch of times and I had to keep practicing."
Jolie worked with a Russian vocal coach. "They'd do it with me, spend time with me and then they'd put it on tape. So I would take it home and I would just keep trying to get it exactly right and then trying not to get so stuck on a line."
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The actress says speaking the language on-screen added sexual tension with co-star Liev Schreiber, who can read Russian.
"It was interesting to see how seductive that language could become when we were doing it... that some sounds can really hinder that or some accents have a very specific feeling to them," she says.
Jolie admitted in the new issue of Vanity Fair -- an article she said over the weekend she has not read -- that she'd like to retire from acting in the near future.
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"I just imagine in the years to come... it's not that I'm retiring, but there will be less films at some point and I'd love to do other things. I'd love to live in Africa for six months and fly planes," she said.
Jolie looks forward to growing older, she says. "I do think that age is beautiful."
For now, she stays young chasing her kids with Brad Pitt, 45, around their house.
Twins Knox and Viv -- who turn 2 years old Monday -- "are going in different directions at the same time," she jokes. "We have put a lot more gates around. We've gated off a lot of the rooms in the house where they were going."
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The other kids -- Maddox, 8, Pax, 6, Zahara, 5, and Shiloh, 4 -- "are all over the place."
"Zee is the fastest in the house," adds Jolie.
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66angie has slept with more men/women in 10years then Jen will her entire life
i agree with jess. this woman is too old to play the sexy-spy anymore, they even had to photoshop the poster for salt to make her look younger. i think her downfall is her strong square jaw. when she ages by one year, her jaw ages her by 5 years, she doesn't have the desirable oval face-shape like say odette yustman. btw they should have cast instead, she's super sexy and young-looking, angelina is better suited to those "changeling" type roles but too bad those types of her movies fail at the box office which leads me to believe the only reason she's doing these action movies is to stay relevant, but just because it's worked in the past doesn't mean it'll work when she's old- it's just not believable that a 36 year old bag of bones can jump off buildings. i'd just be waiting to spot a glimpse of a stunt-double's normal-shaped lips
@Evian there's a big difference between jen and angie, it's perfectly ok for a woman to sleep with a guy who she's been dating for a couple of months as long as they are two single, consenting adults. some people need to grow up, it's not like high school where one chick is labelled a goody-goody virgin and one a sl*t for sleeping with a few guys, that's high school, that's over. but angelina got involved with a married man and with a man who had a girlfriend and not to mention her mother's boyfriend, that is just wrong! morally wrong! in all ways possible-wrong! in society a man could be cheating on his wife, contracts hiv and then transmit it to his wife when he goes home. even in that case the "other" woman could be innocent by not knowing the guy had a girlfriend. but angelina DID know! she knew the guys she were banging had women at home that loved them, that trusted them yet she chose to pursue them! there's a big difference between sleeping with a guy you like and sleeping with a guy who like who has a woman at home! that's the reason why people dislike her so much and the only people that do like her are moral-less, heartless, "all about me, me, me" people like you!
Smart girl!!! Anjie ROCKS!!!
She always makes sure to say sex-related words into her interview to make her look seductive and desired when actually her look is deteriorating fast. She looks like a 50 year old spy.
Does she know how to say, "I'm a big ole beotch" in Russian?
I agree with Joe so much. Jen would be the bigger wh-re, she's the one banging everyone in Hollywood! And Angelina's haters are so f-ing hilarious... They NEED to read her news, comment on her pictures and talk sh-t because THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF HER!!!!!!
I agree with Mandy.. I want to know about the movie, not her.
why do she always talk about her personal life before a movie... is rather annoying.... I really will like to know about the movie... p.s. she said she liked speaking russian due to pronunciation and this she did for the movie, it was part of a job not a personal initiative.. like others who have taken it upon them to learn another language like Will Smith who is fluent in Spanish.
also cindy she does not owe an american child a home. I do not owe an american child a home
Really Stupid all the hate toward Angie. Save your hate for someone who hurts you or your family rather than someone you don't Know and has never done anything to you! As far as a "bad actress" goes, she has an Oscar and a Golden Globe. She is beautiful with a loving family - good for her.
Do they just report everything she says now? God I'm so tired of hearing from her lately. It seems like she never shuts up to the press anymore. Maybe if they quit printing every egomaniacle thing that came out of her mouth she would just move on.
Cindy Have bad news for you. She just defended her decision to adopt overseas. In another interview she said that she and brad make the decision on what is best for their family. Cindy I have four children from different countries and I would never adopt from this country.
Why doesn't she just retire already, she keeps saying it and not doing it. Must be a manipulative lie on her part again, as usual.
I wonder why these ego maniacs don't consider adopting American children who need families. Oh, I forgot, it's because they would not create as much PR for them.
Angelina, mother of 6, partner of Brad Pitt, Oscar winning, A Lister, respected by world leaders for her work in children's charities, is not the cause of old w.h.or.e, Jennifer Maniston's D Lister, pathetic life. Maniston is the one who spread her legs for every man in Hollywood. Even after they dumped her. Can't blame St. Jolie for that.
Hay Joe, go ahead and name all the men Jennifer has sleep with. Seeing how you are a Man and all you would know these these stories are all true, right? Based on Tab stories, Angie has sleept with at least 10 men in HW, two of them married and a couple with other women at the time. ( and all this before she was 30) These stories must be true because we know that the tabs and bloggers do not lie. LOL
Just another Jolie lie--she does not speak Russian any more then the freak speaks French. She memorized her lines for a movie. Does she think we are All stupid, or was this interview just for the loser loons? DUMB AND DUMBER.
She is beautiful. Stunning in fact (and I'm pretty hard to impress). Perfect body weight( She's Not "typical american" fat yet). She has a nice hairstyle and coloring. She has a very unboring eye color. She is an upperclass mother who has used her wealth the same way my mother used hers over the last 30 years: to help underprivileged children in far away lands and give them some kind of better life (debunking the "the rich are snobby selfish pricks" myth spread by pig humping trailer trash scum). I dont agree with her "i do think that age is beautiful" comment...but we all like to dream (if this comment was really true.. the cosmetic industry would go bust). People keep calling her a homewrecker but how do we know Jen didnt wreck her OWN home by being a eardrum piercing nag or by being a bedroom hack or something? She is not a homewrecker. She is a home improvement. As for learning russian.... BLEEEAAAHHH what good is that to me? If for some reason I ever have to turn to the mail order bride industry when I get older.... russian will be the LAAAASST language I will need to know.
That is great that Angelina has learned another language. Maybe she will adopt from Russia one day. I'm all for saving third world children before American Children