Angelina Jolie describes acting as therapy, stripping away the many sides of her personality to let one character rule. But in a candid interview with Chitra Ramaswamy, it becomes clear the fiery non-conformist will always make it to the top.
The shock in meeting Angelina Jolie is not how strikingly beautiful she is, but how close to that surface she wears her emotions. Sitting down with her, she is frank and unguarded, listening and answering thoughtfully and appearing to enjoy being interviewed. One has to wonder why she bothers.
After all, we're talking about the woman who is one half of the world's most famous celebrity couple. Her every move, child and pound lost or gained is pounced upon, analysed and, yes, invented by salivating hacks and paparazzi.
She appears on the cover of glossy magazines every week. She has been painted as a troubled goth, a marriage wrecker, an anorexiccontrol freak, and now the eccentric earth mother.