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Angelina's mighty role
Angelina Jolie talks about her evolving role as a mother and discusses the personal and political lessons she learned during the filming of her new movie A Mighty Heart
She is rarely out of the news and is talked about as much for her ever-growing 'rainbow family' as she is her latest acting exploits.
The mother of four recently finished filming A Mighty Heart, in which she plays the wife of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and executed by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002.
Parenthood and stardom
How do you juggle everything you do, and still be a mum?
Angelina Jolie: Well, we have the finances to have support and that's the truth of it. Any single woman on her own with kids, God bless her because that is hard. I have Brad helping me and we have a lot of people even just at airports, helping us get through. We do have a lot of support, so we're very lucky. We have it easier than a lot of people but certainly we do have to catch ourselves. We just spent a few days away, and then we flew back, and in the plane we had absolutely nobody around us for quite a while. We had the greatest, greatest time. We came back just wrecked but we love it. I think the work of it is part of the fun.
Is it more fun too, having Brad in your life now?
Angelina Jolie: Yes. Raising kids is a very hard thing to do and it's also a great joy. But it is so much easier when you have somebody who is supporting you through it. You need someone you can look over and smile at when something goes totally crazy; someone who is remembering this time with you. It's something that has made being a parent just mean so much more, now that I get to share it with somebody. It's also wonderful to have someone there for my children. They have a great father. Having that has just made the whole experience nicer. But everything is just getting crazier and crazier; whether it be at home, or all our work abroad.
How do your children cope with all the travel your family does?
Angelina Jolie: We've now done so much travelling together and our children are growing up, and their personalities are amazing. So we're just happy to be able to do those things. But yes, if anything, being able to survive the last year and have as much fun with our family as we did, now we feel like, what else can we do?
Will you have more kids?
Angelina Jolie: We want to have more children, and we want to live abroad more and do different things.
What do you like most about being a mum?
Angelina Jolie: I just love my kids. They're just fun. I think any parent is going to say that. My children are so interesting. I love talking to them. And now Mad's at an age where he writes me letters. We have the greatest conversations, my daughter too. She is the funniest, craziest little person. Like last night we were just sitting there, watching her and just in hysterics. And that's the joy of life, you know? They're just fun.
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