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Brad Pitt Turns Up To Support Angelina Jolie At Global Summit To End Sexual Violence

Brad Pitt turned up to support other half Angelina Jolie earlier today, as she attended day three of the Global Summit To End Sexual Violence in Conflict, taking place in London.

The Maleficent star and Foreign Secretary William Hague will address the heads of eight United Nations agencies, approximately 1,000 experts and 100 representatives from countries around the globe at the Summit, with the last conference taking place tomorrow at the ExCel.

Hollywood star Angelina kicked off the conference on Tuesday and she said, as part of her speech: “It is a myth that rape is an inevitable part of conflict.”

“There is nothing inevitable about it. It is a weapon of war aimed at civilians. It is nothing to do with sex, everything to do with power. It is done to torture and humiliate innocent people and often very young children. I have met survivors from Afghanistan to Somalia and they are just like us, with one crucial difference: we live in safe countries with doctors we can go to when we are hurt, police we can turn to when we are wronged, and institutions that protect us,” the mother-of-six continued.

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June 14, 2014 by Josan BP Gallery Charity/Philanthropy family

Jolie: Brad Pitt Coached Vivienne Through ‘Maleficent’ Role

Angelina Jolie, 38, worked with a familiar face while filming Maleficent — her adorable daughter, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 5. However, the little tot needed some support while filming her scenes, and thankfully it came in the form of her dad, Brad Pitt, 50.

Angelina Jolie & Brad Pitt Helped Vivienne Film ‘Maleficent’
How sweet is this?

In a recent interview with People, Angelina revealed that she had some on-set help from Brad when it came to coaching Vivienne through filming her scenes for Maleficent.

“The first day was the day she had to catch the butterfly, and she just really didn’t feel like doing it. I actually was holding the pole with the ball on the end and bouncing up and down and dancing, trying to make her laugh, and Daddy was on the edge of the cliff she had to jump off, making faces and all her brothers and sisters were egging her on,” Angelina explained.

Thankfully, Angie and Brad’s antics paid off — and Vivienne nailed her scene.

“She eventually did it but she was taking her sweet time and not wanting to do it twice, certainly.”

Apparently, Vivienne was so good while rehearsing at home with Angelina, it scared her.

“When we did it together, we had a good time, we played together,” she said. “I was actually shocked that she was doing so well … she went back and hit her mark! It’s frightening.”

But of course she’s a good actress, Angelina. Her parents are two of the finest actors there are!

May 29, 2014 by Josan family

Jolie Talks Wedding Plans, Her Health and How Her Life Has Changed

Angelina Jolie says she and her fiancé Brad Pitt have received some very strong input about their big day.

“We are discussing it with the children and how they imagine it might be,” Jolie, 38, who stars in the new film Maleficent, tells PEOPLE in this week’s cover story. “Which is verging on hysterical, how kids envision a wedding.”

“They will, in a way, be the wedding planners,” she says of Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, 9, Shiloh, 7, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 5. “It’s going to be Disney or paintball – one or the other!”

The Oscar winner, who briefly shares the screen with daughter Viv in Maleficent, out May 30, also opens up about how parenthood has transformed her relationship with Pitt, 50.

“You’re not lovers or boyfriend and girlfriend as much as you are a family,” she says.

May 15, 2014 by Josan Brad family magazines

Angelina Jolie Opens Up in Elle magazine

Whether she’s tackling films, family, or philanthropy, Angelina Jolie has never been one for small measures. As she prepares to terrify children worldwide as Disney’s deliciously evil Maleficent (the film opens on May 30th), the actress and director works with Saint Laurent creative director Hedi Slimane on a shoot that spotlights her stripped down, very real self for ELLE’s June cover—as well as a 16-page portfolio that will be featured in more than 20 editions of ELLE around the world.

Jolie spoke candidly with ELLE deputy editor Maggie Bullock about life with her fast-growing children (Shiloh’s got a half-pipe!), doing only the work that really matters (including the biggest passion project of her career), and why she and Brad are still passionate and “more interested in each other” than ever.

In this exclusive preview, Jolie reflects on the perception of her early years in the spotlight:

The tumult of her twenties, was “misinterpreted as [me] wanting to be rebellious,” Jolie says. “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.”

What she hit upon was a deep and abiding fear “of a life half-lived,” she says. “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.”

On what she used to think her life would be like…

May 15, 2014 by Josan Brad family magazines

Brad Pitt bans children from watching ’12 Years…’

Actor Brad Pitt says he will not let his children watch “12 Years A Slave”, which he has co-produced.

The 50-year-old, who has six children – Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and Knox and Vivienne, five, however, may let his eldest son Maddox watch it.

Set in the 1900s “12 Years a Slave” is the story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, who is abducted and sold into slavery.

“Maybe my eldest I would, right now. I`d rather (wait) for the others to get a little bit older and understand the dynamics of the world a little more,” Pitt said in a statement.

Talking about the depiction of issues like slavery and racial discrimination in the movie, he said: “It`s one of those few films that cuts to the base of our humanity, it`s why I got into film in the first place.”

January 23, 2014 by Josan family Twelve Years a Slave