Angelina Jolie is striking on the cover of ELLE US June 2014 Issue. The star of the upcoming Disney’s Maleficent movie talks candidly about her relationship and life with Brad Pitt, her tumultuous and misinterpreted twenties and the biggest passion project of her career.
Angelina Jolie on how she wants to live her life: ‘I realized that very young—that a life where you don’t live to your full potential, or you don’t experiment, or you’re afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don’t get around to them, is a life that I’d be miserable living, and the only way to feel that I’m on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that’s maybe safe or traditional.’
Angelina Jolie on what she though her life was going to be like: ‘I never thought I’d have children, I never thought I’d be in love, I never thought I’d meet the right person. Having come from a broken home—you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don’t look for them.’
Angelina Jolie on her twenties self: ‘And in fact it wasn’t a need to be destructive or rebellious—it’s that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you. You want to be free. And as you start to feel that you are being corralled into a certain life, you kind of push against it. It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you’re trying to find out who you are.’
The ELLE US June Issue will hit the newsstands in select US cities on May 13th and across the US on May 20th. You can check out the full interview now available on ELLE US digital version.
Check out the trailer for Disney’s Maleficent here.