In a PSA for the UNHCR, Angelina Jolie asks for help for Pakistan to provide enough tents, food, water, and other necessities to those who are currently suffering from the aftermath of the flooding.
It’s heartbreaking to hear the numbers and to see the people of Pakistan who are currently suffering so much – and facing so much more. I’ve made a donation to the Red Cross, only because the UNHCR doesn’t have a Paypal option at this time, but at this point anything that can get out there and help those in need is a blessing.
I know everyone has their own financial concerns and I know that – as Angelina has mentioned before – there’s currently donation fatigue going on with so many people having helped with Haiti. However, if you have even a few dollars to share, I urge you to consider making a donation to any of the charitable organizations who can help, whether it’s the UNHCR, Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, Oxfam, you name it. Let’s rally along with Angelina Jolie and show the people of Pakistan that we care. If you make the donation online and there’s a box that allows you to leave a note, let them know that JoliePittWatch.com is all about helping – it’s great to be able to show how the online community can gather together to take care of others.
“This is not just a humanitarian crisis, it is an economic and social catastrophe.” ~ Angelina Jolie via @Refugees, the UNHCR Twitter account.
With so much damage, suffering and problems in Pakistan, I hope many will heed Angie’s call. Thanks for this, Sherry.
I saw videos from Pakistan and truly it breaks my heart to see the people there suffering.. When Angie made the first call for help in London Premiere of SALT people adhere to her request but still not enough. And now she’s doing it again, she’s an angel. I hope many people will help and soon it will be over. Love her. Thanks Sherry!
Sherry, thank you for putting up this video and taking time out from your vacation in order to help out. I have already donated twice to UNHCR using your link. Angie is truly a compassionate person and I hope many will help out.
Sherry thanks for putting the video. Now I thing many people including me will turn on to help the people of Pak.
We made a donation soon after finding out 1/5 of Pakistan was under water & 20 million people were affected. Am on the road with infrequent Wi-Fi access, so this is the 1st time since last Wed. I’ve visited JPW.
This is one of the many reasons I love Angelina!
Thanks Sherry, again Angie is doing her best to influence people to give.
http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=607940
How RACHEL ALEJANDRO (Filipino actress/ singer) deals with intrigues
DIRECTLINE By Boy Abunda (The Philippine Star) Updated September 01, 2010
….If you were to be born again with a Siamese twin, who would be your twin? Why?
I would love to be the twin of Angelina Jolie. I’m completely in love with her. She is a bad-ass goddess!
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2010/09/01/stuntwoman-eunice-huthart-tells-angelina-jolie-you-should-have-been-a-scouser-100252-27175287/
Stuntwoman EUNICE HUTHART tells Angelina Jolie: ‘you should have been a Scouser!’
Sep 1 2010 by Dawn Collinson, Liverpool Echo
Dawn Collinson gets Eunice Huthart to spill the beans on her friend Angelina Jolie
SHE’S one of the highest-earning, most powerful and incredibly beautiful women in Hollywood. But when the cameras aren’t focused on her, Angelina Jolie couldn’t be less like her icy tabloid persona.
Who says so? Liverpool stuntwoman Eunice Huthart. And, after 11 years working alongside the stunning A-lister, on film sets all around the world, few people are better placed to know.
“I’m always saying to her she’s got such a great sense of humour, she’s so real and her feet are firmly on the ground, she should have been a Scouser!” jokes Eunice.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t have worked with her for as long as I have if she was some Hollywood idiot, but she isn’t. All the magazines like to hype her up as having this particular image but I really don’t know where they get it from because she’s not like that at all. She’s just brilliant and such a nice person.”
The two first met when former TV Gladiator Eunice was brought in to stunt double for Angelina as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movies.
It’s a successful pairing which has worked countless times since, most recently on the action-packed thriller Salt.
The blockbuster has already grossed more than $100m in the US and Angelina has spoken about how much she enjoyed throwing herself into its high-octane sequences.
But although the fearless actress was keen to do as many of her own stunts as possible, when the danger rating becomes potentially fatal it’s Eunice that filmgoers see on screen.
“Angie is game for absolutely anything, there’s nothing she doesn’t want to do,” says Eunice.
“In fact, she’s better on heights than I am. I say to her ‘D’you know what, you can do that one today, and I’ll just stay down here!’
“If there is something she doesn’t do, it’s always just the insurance that’s stopped her rather than her own fear. It isn’t even the director, because they often like to see their actresses doing things, but the insurance come in and say ‘there’s no way she’s doing that’ and so that’s where I step in.
“The protocol with these films is that there are progress reports which go back to the studio all the time and there’s this ongoing concern over safety and who can do what. With Salt we wanted it to be like the Bourne Identity films, real and gritty, so if she gets smacked in the nose then it actually bleeds. We didn’t want to make something where there was a two-minute fist fight and at the end nobody has a single scratch on their face.
“So we ironed out the tone of how we wanted the action to appear about three months before we started filming. Then, when we were setting fights and action scenes, we always worked to that tone.”
Filming Salt took Eunice away for half of last year from her south Liverpool home, husband Mark and daughter Carly, who is now 20 and planning to become a movie make-up artist.
“We were all over, up in Albany for the car chases and then we went to Washington where we had a great time,” she recalls.
When we were in New York the stunt crew were basically working seven days a week, but in Washington the schedule was a bit slack for us so we could just enjoy it and do all the touristy things.
“We had these little bikes and all of us were going round on them, all stunt people with big egos, showing off and doing tricks.
“I thought it would be funny, when I saw a car going in to the White House, to try and sneak in behind it. I didn’t realise quite how bad a move that was! I nearly got myself thrown out of America. I said to the security guards, ‘haven’t you got a sense of humour’?”
It is tough being away from home, and away from Liverpool which she loves so much, for such long periods of time.
“But although it is a big drawback, I do love being on a movie because you work as a team and you really become like a family. With stunts, because there is this constant injury risk and on the odd occasion what you’re doing could result in death, you really have to trust each other. You become incredibly close-knit.”
Angelina has revealed that she cut open her forehead in an accident while making Salt, which left her with a scar above her nose.
Eunice escaped any major injuries, but she admits there have been plenty in the past.
“There have been a few times when Mark has had to come down to the hospital to collect me,” she says. “But I think I had four operations in a year, so he’s very used to it. I just don’t tell him about half the stuff that happens because it’s not worth mentioning.”
So, does that mean she’s totally fearless now?
“Oh no, I’m not an idiot,” she laughs. “If you don’t have that fear factor then you’re going to be complacent and then you would get hurt. But with me it’s about always pushing boundaries and trying to get a better shot. I think, if we go higher, faster, harder, it will be better. In our game, you’re always pushing.”
The 39-year-old is currently in London, rehearsing for Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
“The cast are in LA prepping to come here and then we’ll have a nine-week shoot,” she explains. “That’s a great job, because one day you’re falling off horses and the next you’re trashing and bashing which makes me so happy!”
She will, though, be home in time for Christmas which makes her even more excited.
Then, she says, she can return to being a wife and a mum, and to running her Italian restaurant business.
La Bussola on Allerton Road is her second passion and it’s one she’s very proud of.
“All I wanted when I opened the restaurant was that everyone felt, whatever meal they ate, that they’d got good value for money whether it was a £3 bowl of soup or a fillet steak,” she smiles. “Our team of staff, the management, waitresses and chefs have created that, which is brilliant.”
And one day, quite possibly, they could have a familiar face to serve.
“I made Angelina a dish from the restaurant, our chicken chorizo, and she loved it and keeps saying ‘do you still sell that? I’ll have to come up and have it.’
“The chef knows what she’s said, I’ve told him, that’s why it’s still on the menu – I won’t let him take it off now!”
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2010/09/01/stuntwoman-eunice-huthart-tells-angelina-jolie-you-should-have-been-a-scouser-100252-27175287/
Stuntwoman EUNICE HUTHART tells Angelina Jolie: ‘you should have been a Scouser!’
Sep 1 2010 by Dawn Collinson, Liverpool Echo
Dawn Collinson gets Eunice Huthart to spill the beans on her friend Angelina Jolie
SHE’S one of the highest-earning, most powerful and incredibly beautiful women in Hollywood. But when the cameras aren’t focused on her, Angelina Jolie couldn’t be less like her icy tabloid persona.
Who says so? Liverpool stuntwoman Eunice Huthart. And, after 11 years working alongside the stunning A-lister, on film sets all around the world, few people are better placed to know.
“I’m always saying to her she’s got such a great sense of humour, she’s so real and her feet are firmly on the ground, she should have been a Scouser!” jokes Eunice.
“Honestly, I wouldn’t have worked with her for as long as I have if she was some Hollywood idi*t, but she isn’t. All the magazines like to hype her up as having this particular image but I really don’t know where they get it from because she’s not like that at all. She’s just brilliant and such a nice person.”
The two first met when former TV Gladiator Eunice was brought in to stunt double for Angelina as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movies.
It’s a successful pairing which has worked countless times since, most recently on the action-packed thriller Salt.
The blockbuster has already grossed more than $100m in the US and Angelina has spoken about how much she enjoyed throwing herself into its high-octane sequences.
But although the fearless actress was keen to do as many of her own stunts as possible, when the danger rating becomes potentially fatal it’s Eunice that filmgoers see on screen.
“Angie is game for absolutely anything, there’s nothing she doesn’t want to do,” says Eunice. “In fact, she’s better on heights than I am. I say to her ‘D’you know what, you can do that one today, and I’ll just stay down here!’
“If there is something she doesn’t do, it’s always just the insurance that’s stopped her rather than her own fear. It isn’t even the director, because they often like to see their actresses doing things, but the insurance come in and say ‘there’s no way she’s doing that’ and so that’s where I step in.
“The protocol with these films is that there are progress reports which go back to the studio all the time and there’s this ongoing concern over safety and who can do what. With Salt we wanted it to be like the Bourne Identity films, real and gritty, so if she gets smacked in the nose then it actually bleeds. We didn’t want to make something where there was a two-minute fist fight and at the end nobody has a single scratch on their face.
“So we ironed out the tone of how we wanted the action to appear about three months before we started filming. Then, when we were setting fights and action scenes, we always worked to that tone.”
Filming Salt took Eunice away for half of last year from her south Liverpool home, husband Mark and daughter Carly, who is now 20 and planning to become a movie make-up artist.
“We were all over, up in Albany for the car chases and then we went to Washington where we had a great time,” she recalls.
When we were in New York the stunt crew were basically working seven days a week, but in Washington the schedule was a bit slack for us so we could just enjoy it and do all the touristy things.
“We had these little bikes and all of us were going round on them, all stunt people with big egos, showing off and doing tricks.
“I thought it would be funny, when I saw a car going in to the White House, to try and sneak in behind it. I didn’t realise quite how bad a move that was! I nearly got myself thrown out of America. I said to the security guards, ‘haven’t you got a sense of humour’?”
It is tough being away from home, and away from Liverpool which she loves so much, for such long periods of time.
“But although it is a big drawback, I do love being on a movie because you work as a team and you really become like a family. With stunts, because there is this constant injury risk and on the odd occasion what you’re doing could result in death, you really have to trust each other. You become incredibly close-knit.”
Angelina has revealed that she cut open her forehead in an accident while making Salt, which left her with a scar above her nose.
Eunice escaped any major injuries, but she admits there have been plenty in the past.
“There have been a few times when Mark has had to come down to the hospital to collect me,” she says. “But I think I had four operations in a year, so he’s very used to it. I just don’t tell him about half the stuff that happens because it’s not worth mentioning.”
…Then, she says, she can return to being a wife and a mum, and to running her Italian restaurant business.
La Bussola on Allerton Road is her second passion and it’s one she’s very proud of.
“All I wanted when I opened the restaurant was that everyone felt, whatever meal they ate, that they’d got good value for money whether it was a £3 bowl of soup or a fillet steak,” she smiles. “Our team of staff, the management, waitresses and chefs have created that, which is brilliant.”
And one day, quite possibly, they could have a familiar face to serve.
“I made Angelina a dish from the restaurant, our chicken chorizo, and she loved it and keeps saying ‘do you still sell that? I’ll have to come up and have it.’
“The chef knows what she’s said, I’ve told him, that’s why it’s still on the menu – I won’t let him take it off now!”
brad pitt in comic book movie? maybe!
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Tony-Scott-After-Brad-Pitt-And-Johnny-Depp-For-Nemesis-20441.html
Thank you Sherry, Angie, Brad for reminding us about the less fortunate.
Please, please, donate a dollar, a cent, anything! It’s the least we can do as human beings and Angelina fans. If she spends time to ask for help, we are going to.
neer- I don’t think I’ve read a better description of Angie; bad-ass goddess! Love it!
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/164…31/story.jhtml
Sep 1 2010 6:50 AM EDT 948
Angelina Jolie And Johnny Depp Have ‘Incredible Chemistry,’ ‘Tourist’ Director Says
‘Johnny and Angie just got along so well,’ Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck tells MTV News.
By Kara Warner (@karawarner)
What does an up-and-coming director do after winning the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film? If you’re the talented Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, you do not go to Disneyland; you go out and secure the talents of megawatt actors Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie for your next feature.
….MTV: How did you assemble such a spectacular cast?
Von Donnersmarck: I think if you create a part in the screenplay and what you describe to actors where they can show some of their acting muscle, then great actors will be attracted to those parts and will be game for it. I think what people forget often when they talk about such great stars as Angelina and Johnny, they forget that what they are, really, are actors. They’re actors with a capital “A,” but they’re much more actors than they are stars, and I think that these parts were just right for them as actors. They can really show what they can do. Angelina is so charming and delicate and feminine and strong and everything at the same time that I think when I talked to her about that part and when we worked on the screenplay together, she saw that she could really be able to do something with that part, and the same for Johnny. He shows so much of his own complexity in this part. He’s so winning, so charming, so funny, like he is in real life. I think in many ways, this part is quite close to who he is in real life. He is the most funny and charming person you’ll have ever met.
MTV: Well, we already know Paul fell in love with him …
Von Donnersmarck: It’s impossible not to. Everybody does. Same with Angelina. She is so much fun. Also, Johnny and Angie just got along so well, that was something I could sense straight from the first meeting that we had, the three of us. Believe it or not, Angie and Johnny had never met. Through all the years that they’ve been king and queen of Hollywood, they had never actually physically met, so I was the first person to ever bring them together. So if nothing else, that was a really historical moment. They just got along so well from the first moment they met that I knew it was going to be a lot of fun making this film. I probably have hours worth of bloopers where they were just laughing because they had so much fun inventing stuff on the fly and letting their incredible creativity run free.
MTV: How difficult was shooting in Venice?
Von Donnersmarck: It was difficult, and that’s why most films they do all the interior stuff in studio and go to Venice for maybe three weeks to shoot all the exteriors. We really shot the entirety of the picture — except the scenes that take place in Paris — we shot them in Venice. There’s a chance that we would have captured more of Venice than has been captured before; that was certainly our aim. When Angie and I first talked about it, we said, “Let’s really make Venice a character. Let’s have it be about Johnny’s character, about her character, but also about Venice. Let’s really shoot it there.” Luckily, our producer was game for this, Graham King, so before we knew it, we were all in Venice and lived there for half a year, and in some of the most fantastic places along the Grand Canal, and I never set foot in a car or a truck for half a year………..
thanks Neer!! great article about Johnny and Angie…they seem kinda like twin souls, so no surprise they get along so well…they have so much in common…both Gemini, both married to Sagitarius, both wild until kids/family calmed them, tattoos etc…
Love her…
Neer: thanks, i hope THE TOURIST will be an interesting and successful movie. The director is so talented (as Angie and Johnny)and his last film was in 2006! it´s a long time for a “young” director. isn´t?
Boxofficemojo new figures Salt @ $244 million worlwide
Sherry – thank you very much for that video! It´s really heartbrewaking to see how much these poor people of pakistan are suffering from the flooding. It really makes me want to help. These people have lost so much: their livelihoods, their family members and their jobs to name a few things that they´ve lost. It´s our civil duty to help and it is great that Angie is the kind of person who – like the rest of us should – is thinking of these people and inspring us all. She is a kind-hearted, wonderful woman and her humanitarian work makes me admire her even more! I really wish that more celebs would be as kind-hearted as Angie and Brad are. Hopefully some of their children will continue this marvellous work one day! God bless the Jolie-Pitts 4ever!
Donate. Donate now. Whatever you can to whatever NGO you feel comfortable with. This is the worst catastrophe in recent history. I’ve made a donation to UNHCR since they are one of the main groups on the ground distributing supplies. Also, SOS Villages has 9 locations in Pakistan and they need support for the displaced people being taken in to their sites.
Thanks Sherry for creating this thread.
Neer – Thanks for the MTV article about The Tourist. It makes me want to see it even more.
Angie said no to The Gravity again. Probably because of scheduling conflict.
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http://www.deadline.com/2010/09/angelina-jolie-pass-puts-gravity-in-shaky-orbit-for-warner-bros/
Angelina Jolie Pass Puts ‘Gravity’ In Shaky Orbit For Warner Bros
By MIKE FLEMING |
EXCLUSIVE: …………………………………….
…… Beyond Jolie, which other actress do you bet on?
Cuaron first courted Jolie when the project was tethered at Universal. She was intrigued with the filmmaker, but passed around the time it landed at Warner Bros. I’m told the studio tested or met with actresses including Sandra Bullock, Natalie Portman, Marion Cotillard, Naomi Watts, Carey Mulligan, Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively. Warner Bros made a second overture to Jolie, but she just passed for a second time. …………………………………………
I don’t see Jolie returning to the fold. Right now, she is focused on making her directorial debut this fall on a love story that takes place in 1990s Bosnia, ………..
Sherry
I want to ask your opinion about something.Alot of people,on other sites,dissed Angelina for not doing more charitable work in U.S.What do you think?The Stand Up For Cancer is week away.I hope she’ll be there,but they haven’t announced that she or Brad will be there.I wish she would say talk about the proldems in the U.S.,just like she does overseas.I feel for the people in Pakistan and other places,but the people in United States are suffering to.It would mean alot to hear what she has to say.Let me know what you think.
sylvia – why does matter where Angelina helps? I don’t believe you can even compare the needs and the suffering of people in the US and the people in the 3rd world countries.
Angelina Jolie also does a lot charitable work in the U.S.
On top of my head the money to help the MIR project start, 5 million came from The JP Foundation. Angelina also worked with schools in NO. She often give money to help the families of US troops and US troops in hospitals. The JP Foundation also supports Brad’s brothers projects in Springfield and gave money to to a Hospital named after Brad’s mother. She was also involved in some Cancer project.
There are sites with information about the causes and organization that Angelina Jolie supports or gave money too.
Angelina is a Global Thinker. Angelina gravites more toward third world countries, due to the lack of their Government intervention to help the people. Our Government has a system in place to feed and give money to the poor. Third world governments do not have money to do that. Angelina has send so much pain in the Third World Countries, that was her first experience she saw.
BT says:
Angelina Jolie also does a lot charitable work in the U.S
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Exactly.
Angie had done quite a lot of charity in US. The money had come from her pocket and she usually does it quietly in US.
So media didn’t report her work.
Angie’s cancer-related charity in US
1. donation (from around 2000 when her mother got first treatment at this hospital)to Cidars-Sinai Cancer Institute.
2. donation with Pitts to found a pedeatric Cancer Center in St.John Hospital in Springfield
3. support for Cancer Schmancer Movement (for women’s cancer)In 2007 the organizer told the press ‘Angelina jolie has been a great support of the foundation’
marie- Angie and Johnny both have long-term partners that are Sagitarrius. Angie and Brad aren’t married, and neither are Johnny and Vanessa (granted, both couples are pretty much married in every sense of the world other than the legal sense, but the fact is that legally, they are not married).
Just wanted to make sure no one gets all excited thinking either couple just got married or something!
sunny- While I like the Deadline article, they seem to be another site that can’t get their facts straight when it comes to Angie.
The Bosnia film will NOT be Angie’s directorial debut, as she already directed “A Place in Time” back in 2005. Why can’t any of the media outlets seem to get their facts straight when it comes to Angie.
Although, in Deadlines defense, it’s possible that they just don’t know about “A Place in Time”. It wasn’t widely publicized, and has only been shown in schools thus far. So it’s possible that a lot of people don’t know about it.
Anyway, I agree with you about Angie’s charitable work in the U.S., and in fact that’s just what I was going to say! Angie DOES do charitable work here in the U.S., but it doesn’t tend to get picked up by the media the way her charity work in other countries does.
In fact, most of the time, when we do hear about Angie doing charity work here in the U.S., it’s at least a few years after the fact, and it comes to light only because someone who was either right there when it happened, or somene connected to the charity mentions it.
I also meant to say that Angie and Brad have also attended charity events held here in the States.
One example is the UNICEF Snowflake Ball that they attended last Winter (remember those tender kisses Brad gave Angie on her forehead? It makes me melt just thinking of it!).
That being said, as sylvia pointed out (albiet very indirectly, by mentioning Stand Up to Cancer and how she wishes Angie would go to it) they don’t usually go to charity events here.
However, I have a theory as to why that is. When Brad and Angie go to public events, all of the attention seems to be focused on them, and especially Angie (so much so, in fact, that when Angie and Brad go to premires for Brad’s movies, when Brad and the other cast members should obviously be the ones focused on, the focus almost always tends to be more on Angie. She’s even had to polietly tell interviewers on a few occasions that it’s Brad’s night, and it’s him they should be focusing on and talking to!).
So my guess is that, for charity events, they don’t want to take the focus away from what the event is actually about (a particular charity, cancer, or whatever). So they don’t go.
UNDER MOD- More about Angie and her charity work here in the U.S.
Why people in US has complain about her charity work ?
I remember last year’s Forbes list of actress’s earning says
Reese Witherspoon earns millions each year as an Avon “ambassador.”
I believe she does charity from her sincere heart but it’s through her agency CAA. CAA does those deals for many of their clients and they earn 10% of millions.
The most interesting part of Deadline Hollywood’s report is Angie is most sought-after actress as the leading actress right now. The reports says
1. Warner may scrap Gravity because they failed to lure Angie.
2. Sony hired scriptwriter Brian Hergeland for Cleopatra. He rewrote Salt for female character.
3. Sony also plans Salt2.
4. GK Films wants her in Unforgiven
5. I didn’t know this but Paramount is also developing Code Name Sasha. Spy movie?
5.Disney wants her in Maleficent with Tim Burton
5.Fox2000, Kay Spargetta
She will be very busy for several months with Bosnian love story movie. She started preproduction thing a few months ago and it will need postproduction editing after shooting. Since this kind of movie is hard to sell she will have to work hard for promotion in a lot of market place.
My personal wish is her rethinking Gravity. I liked the plotline very much. I was surprised male actor dominant movie maker Warner wanted her so eagerly.
i’m so sad Angie turned down Gravity again, i love the story, and i think she’s the one who can pull a character like that. maybe because there’s too many films lined up for her, she already said she liked to play Maleficent and she’s reading about Cleopatra and is so interested in it and there’s her film project.. they offered Angie a very high price so that they can get her, says one article, but still she turned it down.. i think they made a wrong move there, because Angie is not the type who will jump into movie projects just because of the price she will be payed for doing it.. she’s more on the script and scheduling, if the script is right and it fits her schedule she will surely pursue it..
I also heard about the Code Name Sasha, its not a spy movie, its from a book by Gary Edward Holcomb. The full title of the book is Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance.
You can see the review and some background on McKay here in amazon, http://www.amazon.com/Claude-McKay-Code-Name-Sasha/dp/0813030498
I think in all movies lined up for Angie, she would most likely to do Cleopatra and Maleficent.
Maleficent, because the kids would love to see her do it. Cleopatra because she already said in an interview in Empire Magazine that this project would be “The the Big One” in her life.
I’m really hoping she would reconsider Gravity.. Oh my, am i the only one who liked it?? I think Cuaron too is a good director although not as good as Florian or Noyce.. Plus I really love the story..
Angelina Jolie Again Declines to Star in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’; Project Now in Jeopardy?
Read more: Angelina Jolie Again Declines to Star in Alfonso Cuarón’s ‘Gravity’; Project Now in Jeopardy?
http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/09/01/angelina-jolie-again-declines-to-star-in-alfonso-cuarons-gravity-project-now-in-jeopardy/
kimmy, I’m very sad,too.
I liked Gravity’s story, too.
But I understand that making Bosnian movie is more important to her and she will not have time for Gravity. it will require a lot of training as astronauts do before they go to the universe.
Bosnian movie will reflect her view of the world and her belief and I’m very much looking forward to see her work.
Angelina is NOT with CAA.
Sylvia, allow me to give you my opinion about that.
it’s very personnel when you decide to help others. Angelina chose causes that “speak” to her. It’s her choice. She has no obligation to do charity work. The real question is why dont your governement helps people in need in US.
response to sylvia, why is it necessary for brad or jolie to attend the stand up for cancer .There are so many actress and actors doing that besides they (jp’s) donated money to st. jude and other cancer’s benifit without doing a telethon or asking money from people.They also help new orleans, yes that’s brad project but i believe the money came from their foundation.they are not superman to take over all the problems of the U.S. and much more the whole world.Besides no matter how hard she does thing , some bitter folks will find ways to knock her down to make themselves feel better.She can’t win either way.
benefit. helped
there are so many other actresse and actors who basically doing more photo op, but its has to be jolie that envious people and media seek out.probably she is more interesting that’s why they like to trash her out.
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-life/liverpool-lifestyle/2010/09/01/stuntwoman-eunice-huthart-tells-angelina-jolie-you-should-have-been-a-scouser-100252-27175287/
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Stuntwoman EUNICE HUTHART tells Angelina Jolie: ‘you should have been a Scouser!’
Sep 1 2010 by Dawn Collinson, Liverpool Echo
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Dawn Collinson gets Eunice Huthart to spill the beans on her friend Angelina Jolie
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SHE’S one of the highest-earning, most powerful and incredibly beautiful women in Hollywood. But when the cameras aren’t focused on her, Angelina Jolie couldn’t be less like her icy tabloid persona.
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Who says so? Liverpool stuntwoman Eunice Huthart. And, after 11 years working alongside the stunning A-lister, on film sets all around the world, few people are better placed to know.
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“I’m always saying to her she’s got such a great sense of humour, she’s so real and her feet are firmly on the ground, she should have been a Scouser!” jokes Eunice.
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“Honestly, I wouldn’t have worked with her for as long as I have if she was some Hollywood idiot, but she isn’t. All the magazines like to hype her up as having this particular image but I really don’t know where they get it from because she’s not like that at all. She’s just brilliant and such a nice person.”
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The two first met when former TV Gladiator Eunice was brought in to stunt double for Angelina as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider movies.
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It’s a successful pairing which has worked countless times since, most recently on the action-packed thriller Salt.
The blockbuster has already grossed more than $100m in the US and Angelina has spoken about how much she enjoyed throwing herself into its high-octane sequences.
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But although the fearless actress was keen to do as many of her own stunts as possible, when the danger rating becomes potentially fatal it’s Eunice that filmgoers see on screen.
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“Angie is game for absolutely anything, there’s nothing she doesn’t want to do,” says Eunice. “In fact, she’s better on heights than I am. I say to her ‘D’you know what, you can do that one today, and I’ll just stay down here!’
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“If there is something she doesn’t do, it’s always just the insurance that’s stopped her rather than her own fear. It isn’t even the director, because they often like to see their actresses doing things, but the insurance come in and say ‘there’s no way she’s doing that’ and so that’s where I step in.
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“The protocol with these films is that there are progress reports which go back to the studio all the time and there’s this ongoing concern over safety and who can do what. With Salt we wanted it to be like the Bourne Identity films, real and gritty, so if she gets smacked in the nose then it actually bleeds. We didn’t want to make something where there was a two-minute fist fight and at the end nobody has a single scratch on their face.
“So we ironed out the tone of how we wanted the action to appear about three months before we started filming. Then, when we were setting fights and action scenes, we always worked to that tone.”
Filming Salt took Eunice away for half of last year from her south Liverpool home, husband Mark and daughter Carly, who is now 20 and planning to become a movie make-up artist.
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“We were all over, up in Albany for the car chases and then we went to Washington where we had a great time,” she recalls.
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When we were in New York the stunt crew were basically working seven days a week, but in Washington the schedule was a bit slack for us so we could just enjoy it and do all the touristy things.
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“We had these little bikes and all of us were going round on them, all stunt people with big egos, showing off and doing tricks.
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“I thought it would be funny, when I saw a car going in to the White House, to try and sneak in behind it. I didn’t realise quite how bad a move that was! I nearly got myself thrown out of America. I said to the security guards, ‘haven’t you got a sense of humour’?”
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It is tough being away from home, and away from Liverpool which she loves so much, for such long periods of time.
“But although it is a big drawback, I do love being on a movie because you work as a team and you really become like a family. With stunts, because there is this constant injury risk and on the odd occasion what you’re doing could result in death, you really have to trust each other. You become incredibly close-knit.”
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Angelina has revealed that she cut open her forehead in an accident while making Salt, which left her with a scar above her nose.
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Eunice escaped any major injuries, but she admits there have been plenty in the past.
“There have been a few times when Mark has had to come down to the hospital to collect me,” she says. “But I think I had four operations in a year, so he’s very used to it. I just don’t tell him about half the stuff that happens because it’s not worth mentioning.”
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So, does that mean she’s totally fearless now?
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“Oh no, I’m not an idiot,” she laughs. “If you don’t have that fear factor then you’re going to be complacent and then you would get hurt. But with me it’s about always pushing boundaries and trying to get a better shot. I think, if we go higher, faster, harder, it will be better. In our game, you’re always pushing.”
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The 39-year-old is currently in London, rehearsing for Pirates of the Caribbean 4.
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“The cast are in LA prepping to come here and then we’ll have a nine-week shoot,” she explains. “That’s a great job, because one day you’re falling off horses and the next you’re trashing and bashing which makes me so happy!”
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She will, though, be home in time for Christmas which makes her even more excited.
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Then, she says, she can return to being a wife and a mum, and to running her Italian restaurant business.
La Bussola on Allerton Road is her second passion and it’s one she’s very proud of.
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“All I wanted when I opened the restaurant was that everyone felt, whatever meal they ate, that they’d got good value for money whether it was a £3 bowl of soup or a fillet steak,” she smiles. “Our team of staff, the management, waitresses and chefs have created that, which is brilliant.”
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And one day, quite possibly, they could have a familiar face to serve.
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“I made Angelina a dish from the restaurant, our chicken chorizo, and she loved it and keeps saying ‘do you still sell that? I’ll have to come up and have it.’
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“The chef knows what she’s said, I’ve told him, that’s why it’s still on the menu – I won’t let him take it off now!”
Read more: http://justjared.buzznet.com/2010/09/01/brad-pitt-narrating-saints-super-bowl-documentary/#ixzz0yNzvcTY7
I didn’t know how else to post this…but thought it was a fun and interesting aritcle
Sylvia – There will always be people who complain that Angelina should do this or do that rather than what she is currently doing now.
In my opinion, everyone has a cause that is important to them. For Angelina it’s people in third world countries who have fled conflict in their own homeland.
Some people devote a lot of time and money to helping animal rescue shelters, some people choose to help out charities that try to find cures for terrible diseases, and some people pay every month to sponsor a child in another country.
Their are so many worthwhile charities to help and in my opinion none are more important than another. I sometimes wonder how many of the people who complain do anything themselves.
The other day I took whatever money I had sitting in my Paypal account and I used it to help the people in Pakistan. There are homeless people in my own city who could have used that money. I could have spent that money to donate to a disease research organization to find a cure for the Alzheimer’s that plagued both my grandmothers at the end of their lives. However, I made a choice to help people who have lost everything in another country for reasons that are very passionate and personal to me.
I just figure Angelina does the same.
AND, as others have mentioned, Angelina has indeed helped U.S. organizations in the past as well.
they just can’t replace AJ…
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Warner-Bros-Only-Wants-Angelina-Jolie-For-Gravity-And-She-Won-t-Bite-20460.html
hoy escribo en castellano, me doy por vencida con mi pésimo inglés!
Estoy un poquito harta de los “fans” que siempre tienen un queja o un comentario negativo sobre Angelina(obvio, solamente sobre Angelina)
Quejas/comentarios de esta índole:
- feo vestido, debería cambiar de vestuarista
- feo peinado, cambiar de estilista
- siempre va vestida con ropa negra
- no me gusta la película que va a hacer, quiero que haga la otra. Brad la tiene que asesorar
- sobre Salt: no me gusto el argumento, no me gusto color de pelo, etc.
- debería apoyar tal o cual causa
- y así 10 cosas más, por lo menos!
parece que Angelina no es lo suficientemente buena!!
Saben estoy pensando que cerca estan algunos de dejar de ser fans y convertirse en haters.
No lo digo por los que visitan y dejan comentarios en este apacible rincón, cada vez es más difícil encontrar lugares como JOLIEPITTWATCH!
ALWAYS JOLIEPITWATCH THE BETTER PLACE FOR THE JOLIEPITTFANS!
When Angie was interviewed by Diane Sawyer. She Said “I don’t see borders” she was referring to adoption but it applies to charity work too. BTW someone tweeted that Brad is in Telluride but there have been false tweets b4 so we will see
Sherry – I enjoyed reading your reply to Sylvia.
Sylvia – You can ask those negative posters how many Hollywood celebrities flew to Iraq & Afghanistan to provide moral support our US troops? Hardly any.
However, Angie went a few times. I’m including a comment I’ve posted before by a soldier talking about Angie’s Iraq trip. Feel free to repost on those blogs that complain about Angie not doing enough for Americans.
“You can’t imagine! She is the most awesome, friendly, cheerful, wonderful woman. To think she traveled 7000 miles; she could do anything and be anywhere, but she came by to share her incredible smile with us. We all walked out of there giddy. And hours later we’re all still smiling ear to ear. Even the cynical guys fell in love. ?And she isn’t just a celeb who came to shake hands, she went out on patrol with our Bravo Company today, outside the wire, in the streets of Baghdad. Something A LOT of the soliders on FOBs can’t say they’ve ever done.”
Sunny – I was surprised when I read in a magazine that Reese W. was paid about a million $$ to be the Avon humanitarian spokesperson. That just doesn’t feel right to me, but to each their own.
In regards to Gravity, I believe Angie turned it down because there is no character development. She’s an actress who cares more about the character than anything else. This excerpt is from ScriptShadow.
Credit: Dulcinea @ JJB
“Despite the heart-stopping non-stop pace of the script, it wasn’t a very good read. The problem is it’s so repetitive. Ryan bounces around from location to location, trying to get to that next “life boat,” as it were, so she can last a few more hours in order to jump to the following safety area. Ryan is always running out of air, dodging that damn debris, or unsuccessfully trying to communicate with Houston. While I know this is going to play out much more excitingly on screen, on paper it’s like watching Groundhog Day – without Bill Murray to make you laugh. The same thing happens over and over again. Regardless of how Cuaron addresses this on film, the goals and obstacles definitely need more variety.
My other huge beef is with Ryan. We don’t know this woman. AT ALL. All we’re told about her is that she had a job before this and has a daughter. She also has ZERO PERSONALITY, which doesn’t help. I’d venture to say that this is the least I’ve known about any main character in any script I’ve read this year. It’s that thin. I’m not sure why they chose to do this either. I mean obviously, the scenario is not conducive to character exploration. It’s one woman stuck out in space all alone trying to survive. But, you know, neither was Cast Away with Tom Hanks, yet we knew/learned a ton about that character (which was subsequently why we wanted him to get back). I think that script really benefited from it’s opening 15 minutes where it introduced us to Hanks in the real world. Gravity doesn’t have that and it clearly doesn’t want that. So it’ll be interesting to see how they’re going to solve this problem. If we don’t know or like this woman, then who the hell cares if she survives or not? I mean at least make her funny or something. This girl was invisible onscreen.”
http://scriptshadow.blogspot.com/2010/09/gravity.html
BTW – I hope those JPWatchers who live on the shores of the east coast stay safe & out of harms way from Hurricane Earl.
Best wishes to everyone.
Faye88 says
Sunny-I was surprised when I read in a magazine that Reese W. was paid about a million $$ to be the Avon humanitarian spokesperson. That just doesn’t feel right to me, but to each their own.
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I do believe she does it with her sincere heart. From what I read, some CAA’s agents are there to look for proper charity organizations for their certain clients. Those agents contact to charity organizations and collect information. Their clients choose one which is close to their heart. But those negotiations are done through CAA and they work it for money. 10% of Witherspoon’s earning from Avon goes to her agency.
Sherry
Thank you for your respond.You clear up alot for me.I didn’t know she did all that and I did all the research.I wish they talk more about wonderful things she and Brad does instead their personal lives.It nice to hear when a celebrity had gotton married or is having a baby.But all this other stuff they write about Brad and Angelina(I hope it okay for me to mention Jennifer)is ridiculous and getting old.If they have another baby or get married.I’M sure they let us know.And(God forbids) they’ll breakup,they’ll let us know.But until then the media should leave them alone.Talk about their charity work and what movies they’ll be in next.What you think Sherry? Let me know.
Warner Bros. did Brad Pitt’s The Assassination of Jesse james…..enough said!!!
neer, Thank you very much for sharing that story with Eunice. I loved it.
The people that say she should adopt in America never do much on their own. The people that say she should help Americans more never do much on their own.
A human life is a human life. God or whomever it is that is above all of us does not give a damn about nationality. We’re supposed to help in the best way we can. If that’s time you give your time, if you can help financially then you do that.
Deddie Garner- I think I spelled that wrong- Brad’s co producer at Plan B said the topic is a lost cost. No one comes out a winner in the “who does what for America” business.
America btw , the government, does a lot to help nations outside our borders all the time. We have an obligation and a stake in trying to help people. It’s part of who we are as a nation. My mother wants to sponsor a child internationally and at the same time sponsors children here with school supplies and backpacks for a full years worth of school.
You do what you can no matter where you life or whatever the nationality.
I’m just want to give an example of Angie’s charitable work in U.S….Remember Angie’s quiet USO trip to Walter Reed? She really want to make it secret, so there is no reporter will be there, but….someone(fan) at Walter Reed has posted on the blog about the trip then it dispersed widely and known by people. That was one of Angie’s charitable that consequently we had know…what about the others that we don’t know?
http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37035873.html
http://www.celebitchy.com/59927/angelina_jolies_quiet_uso_trip_to_walter_reed_brangelina_moving_to_ny/
Sherry, you’re so right with your reply to Sylvia. I love Angelina is so passionate about helping third world countries, may be because I am from one of them. People shouldn’t critizise her for her choice of charities, I think at the end she helps people in need and gives a very good image of what a US citizen can do for others. After reading the book Three Cups of Tea, and find out how in times of conflict after 9/11, Greg Mortenson on whom the book is based was a loved and admired American in Pakistan and Afganistan. I am sure lots of persons in those far away countries have a very good image of the US thanks to people like Angelina.
Best wishes to all on the East Coast & I hope you stay safe.
Thanks everyone for all the links.
Heads up: I picked up something interesting at a Chicago 7-11. Maybe it’s available at other places magazines are sold.
On the cover: “Collector’s Edition Celebrity. A Legend in the Making. Glamourous! Mysterious! ANGELINA JOLIE. Celebrity. Humanitarian. Mother. Goodwill Ambassador.”
The back cover is a RC great photo w/Angie’s hair in an updo & Brad wearing a white tux. Wonderful quote by John Maxwell.
It’s very recent because it has photos from Salt and Angie & the kids @ Narita airport arriving for her Salt premiere.
Chapters: Awards. Chronicles (Early Life & Family, Career, International Success, Filmography). Humanitarian. Brangelina (personally I don’t like this term). Children. Angelina the Beautful.
I highly recommend it – lots of gorgeous photos & more substance than most celebrity magazines.
Ligaya- I’m glad to know I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the term Brangelina. I especially don’t like when people or media outlets say “Brangelina is in (insert country here) for (insert movie name or charity cause here)”, as if they’re one person.
That’s also why I dislike the term Brangelina in generally. They are a couple, yes, but at the same time they are also two seperete individuals with their own identities.
kim- Thanks for the link! Considering this is her second time turning it down, I think it’s pretty safe to say that she won’t be re-thinking gravitiy.
I’m sure she has her reasons for not doing it, and I’m guessing those reasons have to do with scheduling. As other posters have said, she has other movies in the pipeline (including two: Maleficent and Cleopatra, that she has confirmed being very interested in doing).
Not only that, but I’m sure Brad probably has a few movies in the pipeline, too, and we all know that Angie and Brad try their best to make sure that only one of them is working at a time.
So at this point in time, Gravity probably just isn’t going to work out for Angelina scheduling-wise.
I just love Angelina and all her hard work is paying off not only is she a beautiful person inside out one off the high profiled UNO ambasidors who is spreading the good work by appying good deeds her self she is getting her rewards in her beautiful family,her sucessful career just love her at least she puts her money to good use
Ligaya I saw that book/magazine @ CVS in Houston. I didn’t buy because it looks like they used so info from that idiot’s Mortons’s book regarding the section Angie’s “Lovers”.Angie has never stated she was involved with any of those men like Mick Jagger, Ethan, Colin etc I don’t want to buy anything associated with him. I didn’t read the text so you can let me know if Morton’s book is mentioned as a source for the text
Yoco while I cannot comment on this particular book, I wanted to say that I feel the same way. Personally I only buy material that Angelina is involved with, at least I can mostly trust that. Almost everything else that is printed about her is just a lie, written by another chump trying to make a buck off her with their imaginary sources and ugly tale stories.
so who do you guys think should take her place in gravity?
I am really looking forward to Maleficent, I really want her to do that one. I don’t think Gravity is something I would be interested in. I also think it says so much that a studio actually drops it just because Angelina declined to do it.
Yoco- I agree with you! Not only has Angie never stated that she was ever involved with those guys, but none of those guys has stated that HE was ever involved with HER.
Plus, non of the wives/girlfriends (most of those men, if you believe Morton, were married at the time Angie supposedly hooked up with them) have come out and said anything about their husband/boyfriend (or ex husband/boyfriend. I don’t if any of those guys is still with the partner he was with at the time he supposedly hooked up with Angie) having an affair with Angie.
That seems pretty fishy to me. Bottomline: Morton is an idiot!
does anyone happen to know the quote from John Maxwell in her Collector’s Edition Celebrity magazine?
The John Maxwell quote on the back cover is:
“A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose, a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to schieve.”
I haven’t had time to research who John Maxwsell is in relation to Angelina.
I’ve been on the road, so I haven’t had a chance to check on the comment that there’s a connection between the tribute magazine “Collector’s Edition Celebrity: ANGELINA JOLIE” (which isn’t a book, but is like the special edition magazines – which varied in quality – for Michael Jackson after he died) to Morton’s book.
Once I do have time to check it out, I’ll post what I find.
Tonight’s the 1st time I’ve had a chance to read JWP comments; I’m in Cleveland & going to the Rock & Roll Museum and Hall of Fame tomorrow to see everything, but especially the Motown & of course the Michael Jackson section.