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Angelina Jolie said that she probably wouldn’t work in movies if she was a fledgling actress starting out in the industry.

The Oscar-winner said that she might consider working on the stage, but denounces a life and career in Hollywood, which she said is “unhealthy”.

In the Wall Street Journal‘s latest profile on Jolie, she admits to having a rough time since her divorce from Brad Pitt, which seems to have changed her orientation in the city of movies.

Variety notes that being under intense public scrutiny for well over two decades has taken its toll, with Jolie finding herself to be more of a tabloid target after the divorce seven years ago.

“I wouldn’t be an actress today,” the Oscar-winner said. “When I was starting out, it wasn’t as much of an expectation to be as public, to share so much.”

In 2018, the stress became so inundating that her voice had changed registers during the filming of her Disney sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil compared to when she first played the fairy tale villain:

“My body reacts very strongly to stress,” Jolie said. “My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell’s palsy six months before my divorce.”

Jolie confessed to having no social life in Los Angeles since every time she steps outside, she gets unwanted attention. Jolie added in her interview that she eventually plans to leave LA for good and spend more time at her home in Cambodia.

“It’s part of what happened after my divorce. I lost the ability to live and travel as freely. I will move when I can,” Jolie said. “I grew up in quite a shallow place. Of all the places in the world, Hollywood is not a healthy place. So you seek authenticity.”

In September, Jolie told Vogue that she had already stopped filming as much, “only taking jobs that didn’t require long shoots” because “We had a lot of healing to do. We’re still finding our footing,” she said.

Jolie did not go into specifics at the time, but her film hiatus coincides with the end of her marriage to Pitt. She filed for divorce seven years ago in September 2016 after an alleged physical altercation with the actor that took place on a plane.

Jolie said that she feels a “bit down these days,” before revealing: “I don’t feel like I’ve been myself for a decade, in a way. Which I don’t want to get into.”

Jolie has only had two lead roles in the eight years since 2014’s Maleficent, which includes 2019’s Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and 2021’s Those Who Wish Me Dead.

It’s almost like Brad is speaking to her through her film titles. No wonder the woman has to get out of Hollywood.

[source:variety]