Angelina Jolie recalls crushing moment famous dad won Oscar with his mistress

Angelina Jolie gave an incredibly idiosyncratic code portion picking up her Maltin Modern Master Award during the 40th Santa Barbara International Film Festival connected Thursday.

The 49-year-old histrion reflected connected her beloved precocious parent Marcheline Bertrand – who died successful 2007 aged 56 from ovarian and breast cancer – and revealed the heartbreaking infinitesimal her mum watched her celebrated dada Jon Voight accepted an Oscar alongside his mistress.

The Tomb Raider histrion was little than a twelvemonth aged erstwhile her parent and begetter separated successful 1976 amid matter speculation pursuing 5 years of marriage. The divorce was finalised successful 1980.

In 1979 Angelina’s parent watched her estranged hubby triumph an Oscar for champion histrion for his relation successful Coming Home alongside his mistress and co-star Stacey Pickren portion she was astatine location with 2 tiny children.

Pickren and Voight, present 86, starred unneurotic successful 3 films – Coming Home, Lookin’ to Get Out, and Runaway Train.

‘She was successful her twenties, due to the fact that she had maine erstwhile she was precise young. She was divorced to a precise celebrated antheral and she was location with her babies successful an flat watching him triumph an Oscar with the different woman,’ Jolie explained to Leonard Maltin onstage the Arlington Theatre, arsenic per People.

‘It was benignant of conscionable a portion of our household history,’ she said. ‘I retrieve reasoning that [Marcheline] was determination for maine and my member and that was the prime she made. And however she indispensable person felt connected that nighttime ever truly stuck with me.’

During her acceptance speech, Angelina shared memories of her precocious parent – who she said wanted to beryllium an histrion herself – recalling however Marcheline ’embraced’ a beingness of stardom done her daughter.  

She remembered however her parent lived vicariously done her anterior to her passing.

‘I deliberation of my parent … she had to springiness up her dreams of a originative beingness but she embraced that broadside of mine,’ she said.

The Tomb Raider prima besides revealed that her parent would constitute her letters addressed to the quality she was playing astatine the time.

She added: ‘”Dear Gia,” “Dear Lisa Rowe,” “Dear Lara Croft” – and for the past 16 years, I haven’t had those letters.’

Angelina besides revealed astatine the festival that she initially turned up to the acceptable of Tomb Raider smoking 2 packets of cigarettes a day, but had a manner overhaul for her ‘life-changing’ Lara Croft role.

‘I admittedly came [in] smoking 2 packs a time and wholly had to alteration my health and my beingness and observe that I could bash things I didn’t cognize I could do,’ she said.

‘For Tomb Raider determination were a fewer months of conscionable thing but aggregate grooming sessions a day: morning, noon and night,’ the Oscar-winning prima recalled. ‘And I didn’t privation thing but bully food, water, and slumber astatine a definite point.

‘I was successful grooming and that’s what your assemblage [wants]… You change,’ Angelina said, adding: ‘I ne'er did it again…Well, I deliberation I did erstwhile oregon twice.’

The 2001 movie and sequel marked her planetary interruption retired arsenic a Hollywood superstar, but she’d appeared successful a fig of films successful the 1990s including Girl, Interrupted, alongside Winona Ryder.

The histrion has enjoyed a prima crook of precocious with her portrayal of Maria Callas successful the biopic astir the legendary opera star, and noted aft taking connected specified a portion that she would beryllium ‘nothing’ without the emotion of her ain mother.

She said: ‘I effort to ideate sometimes what she would write, and she would astir apt person told Maria that she loved her due to the fact that Maria had galore things but she ne'er had a mother’s love.

‘I would beryllium perfectly thing without mine. She passed distant galore years agone astatine this clip of year, truthful it’s ever this upwind that reminds maine of her.’

‘And that feeling and that sensibility that makes that really hard for maine is portion of what is my enactment and what connects galore artists to their work, and I cognize I’m not unsocial successful this!’

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