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As I expected, I wasn’t able to catch Angelina Jolie on Nightline last night. When you need to get up at 6:15 every weekday morning, staying up past 11:30 to watch TV isn’t much of an option.
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to find a full video segment to post, but here’s a great clip.
I love how Angelina talks about the importance of her family and that, while she loves the storytelling aspect of acting, it only factors in after her kids, Brad, and her UN work. I’m glad that while she enjoys her work she doesn’t let it become the only thing to define her.
And I think my favorite part is when she says that regardless of her own Oscar nomination, she’s really rooting for Brad more than for herself.
Enjoy!
Please God let them have the glory they deserve at the oscar, for they are good in all that they do in both work and their personal life.!!!!
love all JOLIE-PITT funs…..
Hi, thanks for the video and article. I, too, love to hear her speak. I like the part when she said she understands love when she has children. True and unconditional love.
More here http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=6800193
like the first post from loren; i love to hear her speak as well. love the tone of her voice and the substance of what she speaks about. God bless her.
TL uncool J
You beat me to it this morning. Just read the article, very sad.
http://www.unhcr.org/news/NEWS/498ab65c2.html
report and 1 pic of angie’s trip to thailand for UNHCR
These are some of my favorite Angie quotes about her kids:
1. “They bring me so much joy and peace. I can have the worst day in the world and you can say horrible things about me, but I’ll go home and my little kids think I’m great. They love me, and they come to me when they get hurt. I feel like the most important person in the world.”
2.”Trying to raise children and do it right is what I do every day and anything happening to them is the only nightmare I have, the only thing I care about. I thought about my children every day.”
3. “I’m just a Mom first & foremost. I’m very grounded by my family. I’m so lucky. The world can like me, hate me, fall apart around me, & at least when I wake up with my little kids, I’m happy.”
4. “The word ‘adoption’ is a good word. We talk about orphanages, we talk about their countries and differences, and it’s a source of excitement and pride. I’ve heard Maddox explain to Zahara when they are talking about pregnancy, ‘No, Zee, remember, you were in that nice African woman’s belly. I was in that nice Cambodian woman’.”
5. “I still want to raise my kids great, I just want to make sure that they’re the people that they’re supposed to be and I don’t get in the way of it and I give them the right tools. That’s my main job.”
Angelina Jolie voices support for Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand camps 05 Feb 2009 10:10:28 GMT
Source: UNHCR
Reuters and AlertNet are not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author’s alone.
BAN MAI NAI SOI REFUGEE CAMP, Thailand, February 5 (UNHCR) – UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie has called on the Thai government to grant Myanmar refugees in northern Thailand greater freedom of movement, after spending a day listening to refugees tell of the difficulties they have faced in two decades of living in closed camps.
“I was saddened to meet a 21-year-old woman who was born in a refugee camp, who has never even been out of the camp and is now raising her own child in a camp,” Jolie said after her visit Wednesday to Ban Mai Nai Soi camp, home to 18,111 mainly Karenni registered refugees, just three kms from the Myanmar border, near Mae Hong Son.
“With no foreseeable chance that these refugees will soon be able to return to Burma (Myanmar), we must find some way to help them work and become self reliant,” she said.
The 111,000 registered refugees who live in nine camps in northern Thailand along the Thai-Myanmar border are not allowed to venture outside the camps to work or receive higher education.
In a thatched two-room house on stilts, Jolie sat down on the floor and chatted with refugee Ma Pai, a 44-year-old minority ethnic Kayan woman who has applied for resettlement to the United States.
At a boarding school for orphans and children separated from their parents, Jolie listened attentively as two teenage girls – sent across the border to the refugee camp by their parents for education – told of their fears that they might have to go back to Myanmar when they finish their schooling.
“I hope we can work with the Thai authorities to speed up the government admissions process and that you will not be forced to go back to Burma if danger remains,” Jolie said.
The Thai government’s Provincial Admissions Board, the only body that can grant refugee status to people fleeing fighting or persecution in Myanmar, has yet to process some 5,000 people who arrived in Mae Hong Son province in 2006 and 2007, the last time there was significant fighting in Kayah State just across the border. Throughout last year, people continued to trickle into Ban Mai Nai Soi and three other camps in the province, mostly fleeing forced labour and other human rights abuses.
One 26-year-old woman, Pan Sein, told Jolie she fled her village in Kayah State last November, and took a circuitous, hazardous journey on foot that finally brought her to the camp at the beginning of January.
“Weren’t you scared to leave your parents and come on your own?” Jolie asked.
“Yes, I was scared,” Pan Sein replied. “It was dangerous to flee, but even more dangerous to stay in my village.”
Jolie’s visit came at a time of worldwide attention to the large numbers of Rohingya migrants fleeing Myanmar’s northern Rakhine state in rickety boats, and just after UNHCR gained access to 78 Rohingya boat people in detention in Ranong in southern Thailand.
“Visiting Ban Mai Nai Soi and seeing how hospitable Thailand has been to 111,000 mostly Karen and Karenni refugees over the years makes me hope that Thailand will be just as generous to the Rohingya refugees who are now arriving on their shores,” Jolie said.
“I also hope the Rohingya situation stabilizes and their life in Myanmar improves so the people do not feel the desperate need to flee, especially considering how dangerous their journey has become,” she added. “As with all people, they deserve to have their human rights respected.”
By Kitty McKinsey
In Ban Mai Nai Soi Camp
http://www.alertnet.org/t…2bb554f99db36cff48ccc.htm
Good day to the fans and Sherry. I have seen about 3 articles so far this morning and Angelina is on a UNCHR mission, this time to Thailand. Sherry I would love to see one of the articles on your site :) I am always wondering where Angie and the family are, so it was good to find out; she is out doing what she does so well defending those who need help and voice ! WTG Angie!!! God bless the Jolie Pitt family
http://www.iht.com/articl…People-Jolie-Thailand.php
Jolie asks Thailand to help Burmese refugees
The Associated Press
Published: February 5, 2009
GENEVA: Angelina Jolie has called on Thailand’s government to give more freedom to tens of thousands of Burmese refugees it has kept locked inside camps for up to 20 years.
The Academy Award-winning actress and goodwill ambassador for the U.N. Refugee Agency visited Thailand’s Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee center Wednesday.
“I was saddened to meet a 21-year-old woman who was born in a refugee camp, who has never even been out of the camp and is now raising her own child in a camp,” Jolie was quoted as saying by UNHCR in a statement released Thursday.
She asked Thai authorities to give around 110,000 refugees in northern Thailand greater freedom to move around and seek higher education, because they are unlikely to be welcomed back anytime soon to Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Myanmar’s military junta has been accused of gross atrocities against ethnic minorities, forcing thousands to flee to neighboring countries.
Jolie, 33, sat down in a two-room house on stilts and talked with a female refugee. She then met orphans at a boarding school and heard from teenage girls worried that they might be sent back to Myanmar.
“I hope we can work with the Thai authorities to speed up the government admissions process and that you will not be forced to go back to Burma if danger remains,” Jolie said.
UNHCR says Thailand has yet to give refugee status to 5,000 Burmese that fled to Thailand in 2006-2007, when there was significant fighting across the border in Myanmar’s Kayah state.
Her visit comes amid an uptick in the arrival of migrants from Myanmar, who often travel on rickety vessels to escape violence or harm.
What a great video! I´m also rooting for Brad more than for Angie. After all she´s already won once. But if she wins, great! She has her priorities straight. Nowadays her family and Brad come first and then acting and charity work. Hope she´ll continue acting for a few more years before retiring completely. She and Brad are both great actors and will sure be missed when they both stop acting eventually. But it´ll be for their family. God bless the JPs!
Mary Ann I think is has something to do with my security on my hard drive. But I’m not sure. Will have to check in with the Geek Squad.
Fan from Vietnam, I’ve noticed that as well. I’m glad, not only because it’s just plain sweet to hear Angie and Brad talk about their feelings for each other, but because now people can’t bash Brad for NOT talking about his feelings for Angie.
While Brad usually gets a free pass and Angie gets all the criticism, the one thing he has been bashed for is not speaking about his feelings for her. People (both the general public and tabs alike) were constantly saying that Brad’s lack of comments about his feelings for Angie meant that he didn’t really love her and/or that they were only together for the kids.
I’m very glad that they can’t say those things anymore (at least not without sounding 100 times more ridiculious than they did before!).
All of that said, I have a theory as to way Brad was pretty quiet about his feelings for Angie until recently. I truly believe that it was out of respect for JA. Remember how they didn’t appear publically as a couple until after the divorce was finialized, and how they refused to confirm they were a couple (Shiloh pretty much ended up doing it for them!)?
I think the reason for that was that they didn’t want to rub their relationship in JA’s face so soon after the split. I also think that, now that it’s been four years, they figure that they have been quiet for long enough.
The Burmese video appear to be done when Angie was shooting AMH. It said that she was shooting a film in India. I recall seeing pics of Angie and Mad visiting a village and Madd playing with the kids.
Angie is such a sweet and kind person. The interview comes across showing what a non-selfish person she is. She puts everyone ahead of herself. Love how she wants to help others. I love hearing her talk on interviews. She is very fluid in expressing herself.
Mary Ann, I sometimes experience it too, but it is not as slow as you have described. Hope your system will be back to normal soon.
I love this interview, Angie is so sweet whenever she talks about her family. I have noticed that recently both Brad and Angie have become more open in talking about their feelings toward each other. Brad was not very open in the past about his feelings for Angie. Now he opens up and talks quite often about how much he loves and appreciates her. He recently said “Angelina and I are together because we can enhance each other, I don’t want to waste any time because I’m with company I really, really love.”
I so much wish that their relationship will last a life time and I am sure it will because they have already had such a solid base for it.
As for the nominations, if only one of them could win, then I really hope that it would be Brad. He has done so much for the industry and he should be recognised. This would also make Angie much happier than if she won it herself.
First, I don’t have a problem (yet). Hello to all JP fans. I’m rooting for Brad…if he don’t win well I watched the movie and I really like it, not because I love the family. The technology, makeup, editing, and acting are wonderful. But, we will see.
I had a lot of trouble about 12 hours ago, but it’s fine now, as usual.
Thanls Sherry for this video; it’s very ‘touching’. AJ is so honest and spontaneous – very gracious and reverent of brad :-))
I so agree it’s time Brad was recognised by Hollywood – he must have brought in mega-dollars for the industry, let alone his diverse and often-gruelling acting parts.
TCCoBB took 8yrs to complete ??? and the technology is cutting-edge – what more do Hollywood want ? By rights Brad should be honoured with the Oscar, for sure (and besides, Angie will be sooo pleased !! Jx (London, UK)
Mary Ann, over here in the Philippines, sometimes I have slow days with loading PW too, but that may just have to do with my internet connection. When there are lots of photos, it tends to be a bit slow too.
Thanks for the link, TL uncool J. Hey have any of you guys seen this video from UNCHR of Angie’s visit to Burmese refugees in India? Supposed to be new video, but didn’t say when she went.
http://www.undispatch.com/node/7643
I watched it. She was frank and so cute.
*Kim,
They are selling their home in Malibu.
So your numbers are right!