Angelina Jolie Had To Give Up The Most Important Aspect Of Her Identity After Gaining Hollywood Fame
Undoubtedly, Angelina Jolie is one of the most well-known females in the world. While her acting may have brought her to public attention, her super-celebrity status is largely due to her beauty and defiance of social expectations.
Additionally, she has had a spectacular array of flings, high-profile unions, and a brief romance with the most well-known actor in the world that ended amicably. But achieving fame in Hollywood wasn’t without cost, most notably, something that really meant to her.
Back in 2008, during Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable Interview 2008, featuring Angelina Jolie among other A-list actors, the actress spoke candidly about her opinion on fame and experience in Hollywood.
Along with the 47-year-old actress, the annual Oscar Roundtable (2008) also featured Daniel Day-Lewis, George Clooney, James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Ellen Page, and Marion Cotillard.
Angelina Jolie’s Path To Fame
Before we continue, let’s take a look at Angelina Jolie’s rise to fame. The star’s parents, the late Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight were both Hollywood actors. She was born in 1975, and at the age of six, she made her film debut with her father in the 1982 film, Lookin’ to Get Out.
She won a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her lead performance in the HBO biopic, Gia in 1998, and later won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2000 film, Girl, Interrupted. Her leading roles in movies like Salt, Maleficent, and Mr. and Mrs. Smith helped pave the way for her renowned Hollywood status.
Not to mention her move from acting to directing, working on movies like Land of Blood and Honey, Unbroken, and By the Sea, in which she starred alongside her then-husband, Brad Pitt.
In addition to leading a glamorous life on screen, she has devoted her life to helping others. She was already a model before she started acting, and she went on to act in some low-budget movies after appearing in a few music videos.
But according to her, fame in Hollywood also demands a price. She believed that some things she desired, but ultimately, was unable to do because daily life circumstances changed as a result of her fame.
“My favorite thing used to be to just sit in the subway and watch people; just walking by myself everywhere and living among people and watching them and talking to strangers.”
“And I lost that.”
Losing this was particularly difficult for the Eternals actress, as “that does affect you.”
Her Loss of Privacy and Anonymity
Angelina Jolie paid a price for her ascent to fame, forfeiting her privacy and anonymity. She admitted to enjoying people-watching and simply sitting in the subway and observing strangers in a 2008 interview with Newsweek. But eventually, she would be prevented from doing that by her newfound fame. She claimed that in order to maintain her identity, she had to learn how to quickly form bonds with people and create a more intimate, smaller world.
Jolie further claimed that she had never felt at ease as an actor while also expressing her discomfort with being in front of the camera. It was one of the things she hoped to accomplish when making the successful transition to a career as a filmmaker, she said in an interview with DuJour.
Angelina Jolie has a tumultuous history with acting despite being one of Hollywood’s biggest movie stars.
The actress never felt completely at ease in front of the camera and as she grew older, she lost interest in the industry, as she made clear in several interviews. But it didn’t mean she was ready to give up her job and quit acting right away.
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Source- Newsweek’s Oscar Roundtable Interview 2008
