ABC/Lorenzo Bevilaqua(NEW YORK) — Angelina Jolie has never played by Hollywood’s rules, and she doesn’t plan on changing that anytime soon
“I never had a plan in my life,” the 39-year-old actress-turned-director tells The Hollywood Reporter. “I do what I want to do. And if suddenly tomorrow I couldn’t do anything, I could deal with that.”
“I’d be happy at home being a mom,” she adds.
These days, Jolie is most interested in directing, and so far she seems to be one of the few women to earn a place among the A-list stars who have made the transition.
Her third directorial effort, By the Sea, seems a bit of an odd choice for the Maleficent star. The film, which she also wrote and stars in with husband Brad Pitt was shot in Malta, right after the famous couple tied the knot. It centers around a husband and wife trying to rekindle their dying marriage during a trip to Europe.
“Yes, we spent our honeymoon playing two people in a terrible marriage,” Jolie tells the industry trade publication, admitting, “I’m sure a therapist would have a field day analyzing the films I choose to do.”
“But it’s been 10 years since Brad and I have worked together, she explains. “It felt like it was time.”
By the Sea is expected to hit theaters in 2015. Jolie’s directing credits also include the documentary A Place in Time, the 2011 film In the Land of Blood and Honey and her latest, Unbroken, which opens Christmas Day.
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