Angelina Jolie: La rein d’Hollywood | Biographie Partie 1 (Vie, scandales, carrière)

She is Tomb Raider, a heartbreaker, a charming spy and a witch who wants to make the world a better place than it is in Paris. Today we are going to talk about the ups and downs of the life of the world-famous Angelina Jolie. Was she an agitated teenager and a wild child? How did Angie become an ambassador for Goodwill? And is it true that she signed her marriage with her own blood? You are on the channel, the biographer. Sit back, because what follows promises to be interesting. Angelina Jolie-Voigt was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are actors John Voigt and Marjolaine Bertrand. She is the second child of the couple. Her birth made John happier than his Oscar nomination and than all the successes of the films in which he played at that time. He remembers Angelina at the age of 4. You don't remember, but when you came out of your mother's womb, I caught you, held you in my arms, and I looked at your face. Your fingers were against your cheek and you looked as wise as the best of my friends. Her grandparents, Jacqueline Bissette and Maximilian Schell, are also actors. The uncle of the young Angelina and the singer and lyricist Chip Taylor. With such a family, it was certainly complicated for her to become anything other than an actress. Her brother, James Evan, 2 years older than her, had also chosen an acting career. Only her uncle Barry Voigt has no connection with comedy. He is a recognized geologist and volcanologist. Angelina has German and Slovak origins on her father's side and Canadian on her mother's side. Later, Jolie claimed to have Iroquois origins. Despite the couple's desire to save their marriage with the birth of their second child, things only got worse. Micheline sought to get her husband back, known for his many ties. Angelina was barely a year old when the actor had already fallen in love with Stacey Pickren, one of the stars of the film Back. John received his first Oscar after his divorce in 1976, while Angie and her brother lived with their mother, forced to give up her acting career to take care of the education of her children. Jolie's mother raised her under a Catholic education, but never forced her to go to church. She grew up free, as she recalls in an interview. I was part of a group called Kissy Girls. I was very sexualized as a mother. I had invented a game where I kissed boys and gave them nipples. Then we would cuddle and take off our clothes. I had a lot of trouble. As a child, Angelina often watched films with her mother. It was this, and not the successful career of her father, that made her love comedy. Her father spent time with his children, but while Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and his partner, the director Bill Day, moved with the family to Palisade, New York. At that time, he only saw John when he came for the premieres and took the children on set. Angelina loved it so much that she got dressed in her mother's clothes and put on makeup, putting on stage at home. Her brother James was a cameraman. This is certainly what led the young Jolie to appear on the big screen for the first time. In 1980, the father allowed his daughter to get a cameo role for the film Lock In to Get Out. John wrote the script for the project to portray Angelina, 5 years old, as well as his ex-wife. The family was thus surprisingly reunited on screen. But the film was only released two years later. It was at this time that Angie's explosive character came out. She did not get along with pets. In her rock'n'roll period, the actress admitted how terrible she was as a child. She once took her hamster in the shower. He fell and died. But there were other poor victims. I had a dog and I ended up beating him. He fell ill and I hurt so much. I'm just not good at animals. I have a rabbit who is dead too. I fell on it. She then killed a lizard called Vladimir and a snake called Harry Dean Stanton. In reference to the famous actor of the 1970s. She was a big fan of Mr. Spock. A few years later, the family returned to Los Angeles and Jolie knew that she wanted to start an acting career. Over time, she began to get tired of the actress costume. She therefore left comedy and wanted to become a funeral director, following embalming classes at home. She had been impressed by her grandfather's funerals, where she had been surprised by the overwhelming crowd. Angie saw funerals as an ode to the life of the person rather than a sinister farewell. I'm not afraid of death, which makes people think I'm sinister, when in fact I'm positive. At this time, Angie attended the Beverly Hills High School, where she felt rather alone among the children of wealthy families in the region. Her mother, having more modest means. Other students made fun of Jolie's thinness, her glasses and her suspenders. She studied there for only two years. Her studies in Mankina, at her mother's request, were a failure. Angie Lina then attended Moreno High School, an alternative school to non-traditional methods. Such schools offer a wide range of philosophy and teaching methods to teachers and students dissatisfied with certain aspects of traditional education. Angie became a marginal punk, as she describes herself. She only wore clothes, dresses, sweaters and black makeup. She participated in pogos and flirted with a knife with her boyfriend. Why does she have an interest in knives? Little Angelina once went to a renaissance festival, and there was a whole bunch of knives. She found something very beautiful and traditional, because each country has its weapons and blades. So she started collecting knives and weapons very young. This interest will play a very bad trick on Jolie. After a moment of inattention, an ambulance saved Angelina's life. A few months later, Angelina was in the office of a psychotherapist. It seems that she was affected by psychotic disorders. Jolie obtained her diploma and planned to resume theater classes. Later, in 2004, she remembers this period. I am and will always be in my heart a child with tattoos. Marjoline wanted to protect her daughter from these destructive impulses. Angelina therefore went to the Lichtenberg Theater Institute, where her mother had studied. Liz Strasberg was a cult director and a theater teacher who taught to legends such as James Dean, Paul Newman, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Marilyn Monroe. Angelina studied the basics of comedy for two years and participated in various projects. But since, according to the Stanislavski system, she lacked experience to play, the actress left the institute. At the same time, Jolie met a boy who was two years older. It didn't seem serious. But Angie was 14 and he was 16. She took him home and considered him her great love. And they quickly started to sleep together. Marjoline allowed the couple to live together at home because she had understood that her veto would only push Angelina to look for another way out and that she could leave the house. She didn't want to ruin their relationship, but she was still trying to control her granddaughter. At 16, Angie broke up and maintained better relations with her father. He became a real mentor for her. She decided to return to comedy and theater, but she first returned to mannequins. Her first shooting brought a small boost of popularity to the actress. She also starred in some short films of her brother who joined the University of 100th California School of Cinematic Arts. Jolie quickly moved to New York, recognized by everyone as the capital of fashion, and rented an apartment and got away from her mother's surveillance. She began to receive more offers. Angelina appeared in various music videos for the Nicravits, The Lemonheads and Meet Love. She also starred in the short films of her new New York friends. Thanks to this, Angelina, an actress without a portfolio, was lucky. The doors of the cinema soon opened for Jolie at the age of 17. The success did not come immediately. In 1992, the actress obtained for the first time a leading role in the science fiction film Cyborg 2. The original film with Jean-Claude Van Damme had a lot of success, but neither the actor nor the director, Albert Payen, wanted to work on a sequel. Michael Schroeder was invited to shoot the second part, and Jolie, not knowing anything about the director, was happy to appear in his first Hollywood project. Schroeder was already recognized as a director at the time. In this story, Jolie is a sexy cyborg who escapes from a laboratory and rebels against its creators. Their plan is finally to use it as a bomb and destroy it. At the same time, she falls in love with the martial arts teacher played by Elias Koteas. Well, the result seemed rather strange. The set is completed by excessive special effects, a bad staging and a ridiculous game. Angie was looking forward to taking part in the film, but she was very disappointed with the result. After watching it, I went home and I was sick. I watched it and I threw up. I just had nausea. But kickboxing was nice. It was the first time I was made to do kickboxing. But I was 17 and I thought I was going to make a real movie. There, I find myself in a scene where I am decapitated and where I continue to speak. But yeah, I watched it and I was very sick. In 2001, in an interview for the New York Times, the actress remembered the film. According to Angelina, her brother, Jamie Haven, calmed her down and told her, everything will be fine. After that, she did not go to any audition for a year. The studio quickly tried to forget her failure and canceled the release in the cinemas. The film was only released in VHS and only as a complement to the original film, not separately. Despite the lack of success of the whole, it was the first work for which Angelina gave up the name of her father to replace it with her second first name. Thanks to this, the world discovered Angelina Jolie. These mental disorders had not disappeared for so long at the time. She was still suffering from insomnia and food disorders. And at the age of 20, Angelina took about all the illicit substances that could cause an addiction. She had depressive episodes and tried twice to commit suicide, the first time shortly after the release of the film, at the age of 19. Angelina returned to the set in 1995. The actress appeared in the low-budget thriller Without Evidence, a significant part in the first role of the police thriller Hacker, directed by Ian Softley. It is the first large-scale studio film for Jolie, if we consider that Cyborg 2 has never been released. Her partner on the project was the talented British Johnny Lee Miller, who had just taken part in Trainspotting. But against all odds, critics noticed Angelina's game. It was a real breakthrough for her. The preparation for the film lasted three weeks and included visits from real hackers where actors could see how servers were hacked. The hacking was shown using real tricks. The director considered that the graphics did not make the scene natural. The actors took lessons together and met computer geniuses such as Tristan Lewis, Kevin Mitnick and Nicolas Jarecki. Even Quentin Tarantino himself was considered for one of the roles. And Angelina Jolie too. This is why their scenes together look particularly real. However, at the end of the shoot, the actress broke up with Johnny. But he had decided that Angie deserved to face the court and was followed everywhere for a long time. It should be noted that MGM created a site for the film containing information about the actors. And it was hacked before the film's premiere by a group called Internet Liberation Front. But even such advertising did not allow Hacker to make a comeback. The film became a classic with time. Jolie did not react as brutally to the failure as before and continued to audition. The next project was the romantic comedy Love Is All There Is, a remake of Romeo and Juliet which takes place in the Bronx. It is one of the two adaptations of Romeo and Juliet released in 1996. The other was a film by Baz Luhrmann which propelled Leo DiCaprio's career. Angelina plays the first role of Love Is All There Is and the critics were harsh on her. It was not the only project of the year for the actress. Jolie quickly appeared in the film Death of the Moon which was quite fad. But the drama for teenager Foxfire, taken from the book by Joyce Carol Oates Foxfire, confession of a gang of girls, allowed the actress to reveal herself. She plays the role of the independent and rebel Margaret Legge, Sadowski. An evolution of four teenagers who face the difficulties of first loves and disappointments together. Angie's character brings the girls together against a teacher who sexually harasses them. According to the actress, she is used to giving up on her characters which is why she made a strong bond with the rebel girl in jeans and leather jacket. Jack Matthews of the Los Angeles Times highlighted the performance of the actress writing It took a lot of imagination to develop this character. But Jolie, the daughter of John Voight and her husband, didn't even notice that she had fallen in love with her partner on screen during the shooting, Jenny Shimizu who plays the role of Goldie. Jenny is openly lesbian and ten years later, she said they had a very brief relationship. In one way or another, after a few months, Angelina remarried Johnny Miller. But finally, there were rumors about their relationship. Don't worry, I know my type. Oh? What's this? Things were very serious and the actors even decided to remarry. But there wasn't a big white wedding but rather a small and modest one. The only guests were her mother and one of the groom's friends. She was wearing black lycra pants and a t-shirt with Miller's name inscribed with Jolie's blood. Instead of wearing traditional rings, the couple did finger piercings with Jolie's blood. The actress told the New York Times It's your husband. You're ready to marry him. You can make a small sacrifice to make it really special. It's the first meeting of the two actors. She was 20 and he was 22. At the time of the request, they were full of questions. Miller had to stay in England while Jolie lived in Los Angeles. Angelina didn't want to stay engaged for long. They decided to quickly organize a small wedding. This period followed Jolie's marriage. Angelina was later offered a role in the police thriller directed by Andy Wilson, The Damned. The actress' partner on screen was David Duchovny, who was gaining popularity. He made a wave of success following X-Files and it was his first time as a headliner on a film. But the director, Andy Wilson, didn't help the actors do their best. The shooting began in 1995 when the script was released. Such a film couldn't be released and it was sent to post-production for almost two years. The studio failed at the box office and the additional shooting blew up the budget. The addition had to be raised to more than 12 million dollars. The studio finally decided to attract the audience with assumed nudity and shot erotic scenes with Jolie and Duchovny. The trailer for the film was shot for the director's personal archives. You can only imagine the disappointment of the audience and the critics who came to see the film and discovered a whole new side of it. Of course, they were overwhelmed by negative reviews. It's a shame for David who lost his star. According to him, playing in this film was a mistake and the actress' career suffered a setback. Angelina divorced Lee Miller after a year of marriage and although they managed to maintain friendly relationships, it added to a series of professional failures. The actress once again plunged into depression, was about to stop acting and found refuge in addictive substances. She was unrecognizable and wanted to commit suicide by trying to hire a killer. Angelina was lucky to have the opportunity to appear in a video for the Rolling Stones. The actress walked in front of the New Yorkers in a provocative way. It may be the most remarkable clip of Jolie. The song was a success and even more so the video was in the top 20 of the year. The actress then decided to get back on her feet. It was time to do something and she accepted a role in the film Georgia Virginia Lushwoods. The character stuck to the actress and it was the first project where Jolie was not sexualized. She wore long dresses and many different hairstyles. Critics were mixed. Robert Strauss, from Philadelphia Inquirer, for example, described her as awful, a low-end O'Hara Scarlet who only counts on her too white teeth and lips that are far too pulpy. On the other hand, she played the role of George's second wife and Alabama's first lady, Cornelia Wallace. The miniseries told the scandalous story of the Alabama government which was assassinated and covered the issue of racism in the 50s and 70s. Jolie's partners were Gary Sinise, known for his roles in Forrest Gump and Apollo 13 as well as talented director John Frankenheimer. They helped Angelina Jolie to reveal her potential as an actress. The series was well received by critics and won several awards, including one for Jolie. She was nominated for the Cable ACE Award and Amy Awards for the category Best Actress in a Second Role in a Miniseries or a Film as well as the Golden Globes Award for Best Actress in a Second Role. The producers immediately reacted to such a success and invited Angie on HBO. The channel was already known for its premium content and was an alternative to cinema. Jolie was to appear in the biographical drama Gia in which she was supposed to play the model Gia Carangi. The famous model had the same bad habits as the actress, but if Angie had quickly regained her reins, Gia's life and career had been destroyed. The actress was frightened by this level of resemblance « I had too much in common with Gia. Either that would have allowed me to spit out demons, or that would have put me in a bind. » The actress, however, agreed to fight her demons and accepted the role. During her preparation, Angelina exchanged with close friends of Gia and dove into the notebooks on which the script was based. Taking advantage of Strasberg's method of playing, Jolie chose to stay in the character between the scenes during the shooting. She was alone with herself and the result was so real that it brought the audience to tears and to fear. Jolie gained much more recognition following her role as Gia and it's quite obvious. Jolie is fierce in her representation, fulfilling the role of audacity, charm and despair. And her role in this film is perhaps one of the most beautiful ever filmed. For the second consecutive year, Angelina received a Golden Globes Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. The actress also won a real Percé Award and it's touching to see the beginnings of the young star. At the end of the shooting, Angie was exhausted and briefly stopped acting. She felt like she had nothing else to offer to the audience and moved to New York where she began to take evening classes in production and screenwriting at the New York University. For the last scenes of Gia, the actress had to shave her head and it helped her to melt into the crowd after the shooting. But as soon as the positive reviews began to flood about George Wallace and Gia, Angelina is back on the set. Despite everything, the film Hell's Kitchen with 6 million budget is directed by Tony Cincerepini. The film was distinguished during the first week and raised only 4.5 million dollars at the box office. Its creators quickly realized the failure and canceled the release without even waiting for the critics. The film was released only in DVD and Jolie's reputation was thus preserved. At that time, the actress received a huge number of offers. Her next role was in the dramatic comedy La Carte du Coeur. She was lucky enough to have on screen Gillian Anderson, Ellen Bernstein, and the critics once again praised the film and especially Jolie's performance. Peter Stagg of the San Francisco Chronicle wrote Jolie, flying over a very well-written role, is sensational while we discover the realities she puts at stake. The actress won the Breakthrough Performance Awards of the National Boards of Review. The director, Mac Newell, who brought together the casting of the dramatic comedy Les Aiguilleurs, noticed her success and invited her to play Cate Blanchett. The actress accepted and played the role of the character's wife, Billy Bob Sandton. Who would have thought that this would have consequences? Certainly the manager of the two actors who did not want to introduce them to each other feared that they would not get close. Sandton had been married, divorced, and recently engaged to Laura Dern. During the shoot, obviously Angie and Billy Bob did not get along. We would have said a couple, but the director of the film thought he was just good at comedy. The film, however, received mixed reviews because of the character and the ridiculous script. According to critics, the result is absolutely absurd, focuses on a free woman who mourns the plan of Hibiscus, wears a lot of turquoise rings and finds herself alone on a deserted road. The film made a good start at the box office, but entries quickly stopped at a little over 8 million dollars for 33 million spent. It was a failure. In the years that followed, Jolie was greatly solicited and moved from one set to another. Her next project was the police thriller Bone Collector, directed by Philip Noyes. It is an adaptation of the eponymous novel by Jeffrey Dever. She plays the role of a police officer inspired by the success of Seven by Fincher. Universal Pictures reproduced the film. This genre was more popular than ever, which certainly helped the mediocre Bone Collector to raise 150 million dollars at the box office. The public and critics had mixed opinions, but it remains Angelina's first success at the box office. The second work of the actress released the same year in 1999 with the film A Stolen Life. They started working on the film almost 7 years earlier when the young and talented Winona Ryder read the memoirs of writer Susanna Kaizen and managed to adapt it into a film. But the Columbia Pictures studio, which owned the rights, was not in a hurry to invest in the project. Winona personally obtained the agreement for the adaptation rights, convinced the studio and after 5 years of rewriting the script chose James Mangold as director. The casting was crazy and the story was in place. Lisa Rowe's casting, a charismatic, manipulative and rebellious sociopath, was interesting. It was a kind of Jack Nicholson to the female. James Mangold had to choose between Claire Danes, Courtney Love and Angelina Jolie. But after meeting Angie, the subject was closed. In addition to Winona Ryder, Angelina's partners on set were excellent actors like Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Moss, Vanessa Redgrave, Jared Leto and many others. The 4-month shoot took place in the real Harrisburg State Psychiatric Hospital, still in operation. The location was chosen for its old look, in which an old pharmacy had been preserved, which gave the film a period look. The actress entered the role and isolated herself from the others, which affected Angelina's mental health. At the end of the shoot, she was exhausted and had a nervous breakdown. The actress went to the UCLA Medical Center for 3 days. Despite Winona Ryder's efforts, the film failed at the box office because of its $40 million budget and the subject it dealt with. Critics expressed mixed opinions. The author of the book, Susannah Kaizen, criticized the film, accusing Mangold of adding a melodramatic overlay to the story, inventing twists that were not in the book. The author was only satisfied with Angelina's performance. Critics also noted that the actress had a mediocre script. The worst for Winona, it was the end of this story. The film was presented to the Oscars in one category, the Academy Best Award for Best Actress in a Second Role for Angelina Jolie, a second Screen Actors Guild Award and the Academy Awards for Best Actress in a Second Role for her first nomination. It may be the pinnacle of glory and success for Jolie. This beautiful moment was ruined by the ceremony. She gave an interview holding her brother's hand and did not stop repeating how much she loved him and that he was the best man of her life. The audience had nothing against it, but the next day, the paintings were filled with pictures showing the actress kissing James on the lips. Jolie tried to explain that it was her way to show her love and that the rest was just a 60-second The film was directed by Dominic Senna and featured Nicolas Cage, supposed to steal 50 cars against his brother's will. The script he gave me was about Ferrari, Nick Cage and Giovanni Ribesi and it seemed like a good idea. It's a funny film and I just tried to have fun. After serious roles, it was a success for the actress. She got the role of Sway, a car enthusiast, Bobby Orr, and Dominic Senna was in charge. There were other interesting cars besides Ferrari in the film. A Aston Martin DB1, a Cadillac Eldorado, a Chevrolet Bel Air convertible, a Dodge Viper Coupé GTS, a Lamborghini Diablo SE30 and many others. Although the films included many Academy Awards winners, Jolie, Cage and Robert Duval, the film was just a funny blockbuster with mixed reviews. The film raised 237 million dollars at the box office because of the importance of the production costs and the budget of about 100 million dollars. It was a half-baked success. The studio lost money on the project. Jolie then got caught up in a media scandal. It happened on the set of the erotic thriller Peché Originel. Antonio Banderas was his partner on set. Banderas had to cut all the explicit sex scenes and Antonio agreed. In the end, the result was so explicit that director Michael Crawford had to cut all the sex scenes. After that, journalists spread the rumor that Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas really fell in love with the scene. The press published articles about the secret romance between the actors. Even Banderas' wife, Marie and Angelina, quickly disappeared when Jolie confirmed her relationship with Billy Bob Santan, already known to the public. Despite the cuts, the film proved to be good. Many viewers consider the scenes as practically pornographic. The film failed at the box office and Jolie was nominated for the Golden Raspberry Awards of the worst actress. But Jolie's personal relationships came back to the fore. She took part in a love triangle between Billy Bob Santan and his fiancée Laura Dern. While Dern was on set, Santan left the house without explanation and started to avoid her. She eventually found out that her fiancé had married Jolie. I left home to work on a film and during my absence, my boyfriend got married and I never heard of him again. It's a sudden death. There were no feelings of hunger or lack for anyone. Although Laura Dern and Angelina Jolie never crossed paths during their love triangle, they spent time together during their childhood. The two actresses are Hollywood star children. Laura's father, Bruce Dern, remembers working with Angelina's father a few years earlier. John Voight is a friend of mine and I remember that Laura was about 8 years old because John and I were in the middle of work on Back. They lived in the house of the director, Alashby. They were both on set and they asked Laura to watch Angie since she was the oldest. The couple got married on May 5, 2000 but it is much less remarkable than the previous one. The $200 wedding ceremony took place in a small church in Las Vegas and only the witnesses were invited. Questions arose about Santan, the couple's relationship. Billy said that 5 years later, their marriage would still be as strong. Santan was not only an actor, he was also a talented musician. He dedicated a song to Angelina after their marriage. The newlyweds did not hide their relationship and were the most outrageous couple in Hollywood. They got their names tattooed, often appeared together on the red carpet, holding hands and wearing vials of their respective blood around their neck. This caused a strong reaction from the media but Billy said years later that it was not as crazy as it had been written. The necklaces were very simple and we poked our fingers with a pencil and kept a small drop of blood. We will wear necklaces when we are far from each other. It was that simple. But when it came out in the press, we would have said that we were wearing a bucket of blood around our neck. It should be noted that although the journalists wrote a lot about Jolie, as we have already said, the year was very favorable to the actress and she saw herself proposing a project that could destroy or boost her career. Before talking about this film, we suggest you subscribe and activate the bell to discover other interesting facts about personal life and the career of your favorite celebrities. Subscribe and let's go! Angelina took on the title role of the adaptation of the adventure video game Lara Croft Tomb Raider. The development was carried out by several countries at the same time, including Spain. Simon Weiss led this international project. He insisted on Jolie's candidacy for the role. According to him, the actress was Lara Croft's swan. Angie was not necessarily delighted with such a resemblance and did not share the exaggerated sex appeal of the character. In addition, her ex-husband, Johnny Lee Miller, played a lot in this game when they were together. But the director was good about Angelina's candidacy for new activities. This helped the actress to reveal a new side of herself. Angelina finally accepted once Simon Weiss told her where the film was going to take place. She dreamed of visiting different parts of the world and decided not to miss the opportunity to visit Iceland, England and Cambodia. In addition, the father of the actress, John Voight, who played the role of Richard Croft, the father of Lara, was also going to play in this film. The director thought he would take Angelina liked the idea and pushed her father's candidacy. There was thus a beautiful alchemy between them on screen. Nowadays, training before a shoot is commonplace for many actors. But it was the first time for Angie. The actress followed a lot of physical training, learned to fight and shoot, and did yoga. These activities help her to feel calmer than ever. She said she hadn't done sports for years, but the project helped her to get back in shape. Angelina is left-handed and the directors had to create a gun especially for her. Easy to reload and use with the left hand. She learned to turn guns in the air and throw them into the holster. Wow! Doesn't anybody realize how unbelievable this is? The shoot lasted six months and Angelina did most of the stunts without the help of a stuntwoman. But in one of the first shooting scenes, when Lara fell on a beam at her house, the actress fell and broke her ankle. The team had to wait two weeks for the actress to recover and shoot the scene again. To protect her, Angelina hired Eunice Attard. The British stuntwoman had already replaced her before. Their collaboration turned into a friendship and Eunice still replaces Angelina. But on Lara Croft's set, Attard was bothered by Jolie's head injury. She had just recovered from her injury and immediately started climbing safely. And in the jungle, Jolie had no roof and snakes could enter. But as we know, Jolie insisted on shooting without Attard's help. Jolie's antagonist was played by Daniel Craig, who plays an old acquaintance and a rival treasure hunter. It's funny that Daniel, the British, plays the role of an American while Angelina plays the role of the British Lara Croft. By the way, if you want to learn more about the life of the famous British secret agent James Bond or the charismatic Inspector Benoit Blanc, write it in the comments. Despite all the efforts and a $115 million budget, the film did not get the credit it deserves. Critics were disappointed and Angelina was nominated again for the worst actress at the Golden Raspberry Awards. The only consolation is that the film being an adaptation of a popular game, the audience warmly received the film, which helped to raise $275 million at the box office. At that time, it was a record for an action film directed by a woman. The success of the box office ensured a sequel. Many souvenirs and toys were sold around the world and amusement parks on the theme of Tomb Raider began to appear. The largest and most famous park opened in Italy. The film became a cult and thus brought a worldwide fame to the actress in 2001. The number of fans grew day by day. But the major change that occurred at this time was that Angelina was not alone. Visiting the commode, she learned the horrors of the civil war that took place between 1967 and 1975. And although the war ended more than 20 years ago, many inhabitants still bear the stigma. More than 40,000 innocent people were victims of mines. Children walked on these mines day after day and it shocked Jolie because she had never faced such things in peaceful Hollywood. After returning from shooting, she could not stop thinking about it. And I asked her what would have happened to him or what's happened to him or what could be done and found out that he was probably just going to die because of the reality of how many people were in that situation. And it was my first experience and I thought well we should fly him out of here, we should do something, we should get him hospital care and realizing that this is one kid in thousands and you can't. So, I went to the United Nations to get information on the points of tension in the world. She then decided to learn more about the living conditions in these areas and started visiting refugee camps around the world since then. In February 2001, Angelina completed her first 18-day mission in Sierra Leone and Tanzania. She was shocked because she saw Jolie returning to Cambodia for two weeks and meeting Afghan refugees in Pakistan. The actress responded to the desperate request of the United Nations on behalf of one individual. Angelina herself covered most of the expenses related to her missions and during her travels, she lived in conditions just as modest as the others. Although she understands that it is impossible to help everyone, she worries about the fate of the children and wants to do her best. Thus, on August 27th, she was named Goodwill Ambassador in Geneva by the United Nations for the refugees. Of course, we will tell you more in the second part. The date of publication of the latter depends only on you. The more you like and comment on this video, the more the sequel will come out quickly. In the meantime, we suggest you to discover more details about the marriage of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. 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