It was great." Jolie plays Lara Croft, daughter of a British aristocrat (played by Jolie's real-life dad Jon Voight) was born and raised to be part of British high society. "I saw the film for the first time yesterday and all I could think about was how much I missed being her and travelling and all the things we did every day. It's the first time since the Alien films, that a woman has been allowed to drive an action picture, and playing Lara Croft, the empowering central character, was a dream come true for the actress. Tomb Raider is Jolie at her best, in this whiz bang adaptation of the popular video game. We're coming back from work and we're spending July mostly with his children and we want to have a REAL life and a REAL family." That's not surprising given then fact that she spent her honeymoon working on Tomb Raider, "but I made sure that I came back pretty much every weekend." "What I mean by that is, we're having fun with our life. We're even talking about a poodle," Jolie says laughingly. People know maybe ONE-TENTH of my life and because it's maybe a certain KIND of life, they assume that that's everything, but I have my secrets." Those secrets may be many, and may not include the blood necklace she proudly wears around her neck, but her year-long marriage to Billy Bob Thornton is still alive and well, and the actress couldn't be happier.
"I'm just honest and I like that I don't have to worry about what I say in life or try to pretend to be somebody else nor do I have the time or energy for it and don't want to live that way." Jolie also concedes, however, that "sometimes things are taken the wrong way and it's crazy to be misinterpreted and it bothers you sometimes, but there's also a hell of a lot people who don't know about me. Always unashamed and outspoken, the Oscar winning star of the action pic Tomb Raider has no qualms about being truthful about her life. It's a relaxed, beautiful and supremely confident Angelina Jolie who walks into her Four Seasons hotel room. Angelina Jolie/Tomb Raider Interview by Paul Fischer in Los Angeles.Īngelina Jolie loves to further than most actresses in her generation, and she told Paul Fischer, making Tomb Raider was a fantasy come true.