In the January issue of Vogue, Angelina Jolie gives her first in-depth interview about her relationship with Brad Pitt, how the two became a couple, and her thoughts on Jennifer Aniston:
On Brad Pitt:
“I didn’t know much about exactly where Brad was in his personal life [when they met on the set of “Smith”]. But it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects…Brad was a huge surprise to me. I, like most people, had a very distant impression of him from . . . the media.”
On how it started:
“I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t. I was quite content to be a single mom…Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, ‘God, I can’t wait to get to work,’…We just became kind of a pair.”
On how it happened:
“And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe…Not as exciting as what a lot of people would like to believe. We spent a lot of time contemplating and thinking and talking about what we both wanted in life and realized that we wanted very, very similar things.”
On Jennifer Aniston:
“I did [once meet Aniston], but it was not a proper meeting. We’ve, like, passed each other and said ‘hi’ briefly, shook hands. But not a real sit-down-and-talk kind of meeting. That would be her decision [for a long sit-down], and I would welcome it.”
According to my calculations, it’s impossible for Angelina to get any more perfect, so Rachel may not want to have this meeting. If this were a game, Angelina would be Ohio State and Jennifer would a kid with a Nerf football. Jennifer couldn’t be more owned in this meeting if Brad Pitt was there feeding Angelina chocolate covered strawberries and fanning her with a giant palm leaf.
Angelina and Brad at the world premiere of The Good Shepherd:
