Kids have an annoying habit of doing what they want to do, don’t they? Mixing the Play-Doh together, dating someone you don’t like, going to a college that’s not your alma mater — the list goes on and on. And while we love them for being their own people, we also wish that just once they would listen to our endless wisdom. It turns out, even celebrity parents can’t always convince their kids to follow a choice they think is best. Angelina Jolie just revealed that she “always wanted” her six kids to do one thing, but they just can’t be persuaded.
The Maria star, who is mom to Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne with ex Brad Pitt, shared that her kids don’t share her “affinity” for acting while at a panel at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Wednesday.
“I don’t know, that’s not my doing,” Jolie remarked, per DailyMail. “I always wanted them to be around film because I wanted them to know as a part of — it’s such a wonderful family, to be creative, to be an artist, to be … They’re not interested.”
Some celebrity parents want their kids to stay far away from acting, but Jolie is the opposite. She sees the value of a career in film, but her kids just don’t want to do it.
And the reason why actually makes a lot of sense. The Maleficent star explained, “They really don’t like any of the celebrity part of it, especially Shiloh hates it.”
“It’s not a normal thing. It’s a silly thing really,” she added, regarding fame.
Despite their aversion to being in the spotlight, Jolie’s children are very creative. She revealed, “Some of them dance, some of them paint, some of them love theater, but none of them are dying to be on screen.”
Maddox and Pax have worked behind-the-scenes on several of Jolie’s projects, Zahara is a student at Spelman College, and Vivienne co-produced The Outsiders on Broadway with her mom. “It’s good to start them in working,” Jolie said at the panel. “[You’ve] got to run around and do anything for everybody. And so they’ve been doing that in a few films. And then Pax was doing some of the photography work.”
As far as Vivienne, Jolie said she took her role “very seriously.” “She’ll correct me,” Jolie recalled. “She’ll say, ‘Didn’t you read the memo? We have to do this. We have to go through this.’ She’s been a really tough assistant.”
No matter what they want to do, Jolie is focused on giving her kids “space” to “figure out who they actually are and something that they want to live for that’s authentic to them so it holds in their life.”
She’s such a supportive mom, and we love her for it! This confirms with what a source told In Touch Weekly recently about the mom of six, whose divorce from Pitt was finalized in December after an eight-year battle.
“Angelina’s very aware of the potential her kids have, she has no doubt they’re going to do great things,” an insider told the outlet. “That being said, she’s never pushed them into anything, the last thing she wants is to see them flounder or be forced to do something they’re not passionate about, but she is carefully guiding their careers and setting them up, step by step.”
They are all going to do great things one day — even if none follow exactly the life their mom envisioned.
Angelina Jolie is a mom of six — and the way she dotes on her kids is adorable!
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