“How she will need to have felt on that night time all the time actually caught with me,” stated the actress, who grew to become emotional whereas remembering her late mom, Marcheline Bertrand, as she accepted the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant.
Angelina Jolie is getting candid about her household’s historical past with the Academy Awards.
Throughout a dialog with critic Leonard Maltin on the Santa Barbara Worldwide Movie Pageant on Wednesday, per PEOPLE, the actress — who accepted the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award — mirrored on her profession, and her expertise with the Oscars.
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When Maltin requested Jolie, 49, about her Academy Award win in 2000 for her efficiency in Lady, Interrupted, she stated, “I’m making an attempt to think about how a lot I’ll share proper now.”
Jolie — who’s the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand — recalled watching the 1979 Academy Awards, throughout which her father gained the Oscar for Finest Actor for Coming Residence. The ceremony got here just some years after Voight and Bertrand’s separation in 1976, and Jolie shared that her mom watched her ex attend the awards present with “the opposite lady.”
“My mother was dwelling with two little children,” Jolie recalled of Bertrand, who additionally welcomed Jolie’s brother James Haven with Voight. “My mother’s dream was to be an actor. I imagine my mom’s mom’s dream was to be an actor, which might be why she took her to the theater in Chicago on a regular basis.”
“She was in her twenties, as a result of she had me when she was very younger,” she continued. “She was divorced to a really well-known man and he or she was dwelling along with her infants in an house watching him win an Oscar with the opposite lady.”
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“It was type of simply part of our household historical past,” Jolie added. “I keep in mind considering that [Bertrand] was there for me and my brother and that was the selection she made. And the way she will need to have felt on that night time all the time actually caught with me.”
Over 20 years later, the Maria star stated she was capable of share a particular second along with her mom when she gained her Oscar for Finest Supporting Actress in 2000.
“To have that second, to get off that stage and name her and say, ‘It is yours’ — and I gave it to her — the most effective moments of my life,'” Jolie stated.
On Wednesday, Jolie remembered Bertrand, who died in 2007, when she was honored with the Maltin Trendy Grasp Award, which she accepted from Ava DuVernay on the movie pageant.
The mother of six started emotional whereas talking about her late mom.
“Many individuals undergo life with no inventive outlet. I consider my mom she had to surrender her goals of a inventive life, however she embraced that facet of mine,” Jolie stated. “My mom would write letters to my characters — ‘Pricey Gia,’ ‘Pricey Lisa Rowe,’ ‘Pricey Lara Croft’ … I attempt to think about generally now what she would write.”
