Angelina Jolie reveals why her children won't take after their famous parents

Angelina Jolie revealed wherefore nary of her six children, whom she shares with ex-husband Brad Pitt, program to travel successful their parents’ footsteps. 

While participating successful a sheet astatine the Santa Barbara International Film Festival connected Wednesday, the actress, 49,  shared that her kids don't stock her 'affinity' for movies. 

'I don’t know, that's not my doing,' the Maleficent star. 'I ever wanted them to beryllium astir movie due to the fact that I wanted them to cognize arsenic a portion of — it's specified a fantastic family, to beryllium creative, to beryllium an artist, to be… They're not interested.' 

She continued: 'They truly don't similar immoderate of the personage portion of it, particularly Shiloh  hates it.' 

'I deliberation successful a precise steadfast mode they don't … It's not a mean thing. It's a silly happening really,' three-time Golden Globe victor said of their reservations toward fame. 

Still, she noted that 'they've been connected acceptable with' her and person different passions successful the originative arts.

'Some of them dance, immoderate of them paint, immoderate of them emotion theater, but nary of them are dying to beryllium connected screen,' Jolie told the audience. 

The mother-of-six said the closest immoderate of her kids person travel to surface enactment is behind-the-scenes of a film. 

Most recently, her 2 eldest sons, Maddox and Pax, did immoderate adjunct manager enactment for Maria, successful which Jolie portrayed opera fable Maria Callas.

'It's bully to commencement them successful working,' Jolie said. '[You’ve] got to tally astir and bash thing for everybody. And truthful they've been doing that successful a fewer films. And past Pax was doing immoderate of the photography work.' 

She besides gave her youngest daughter, Vivienne, a saccharine shoutout arsenic she reflected connected however they co-produced Broadway’s The Outsiders unneurotic past year. 

The performer said her 16-year-old took her enactment arsenic an adjunct connected accumulation 'very seriously.' 

'She'll close me,' Jolie recalled. 'She'll say, "Didn't you work the memo? We person to bash this. We person to spell done this." She's been a truly pugnacious assistant.' 

At this moment, the prima said she is giving her kids 'space' to 'figure retired who they really are and thing that they privation to unrecorded for that's authentic to them truthful it holds successful their life.' 

In November, Jolie said connected Good Morning America that Shiloh is 'extremely private', arsenic are her siblings. 

'None of my children privation to beryllium successful beforehand of the camera [at] this time,' Jolie said. 

While Shiloh has spent the bulk of her puerility retired of the spotlight, she made her acting debut astatine property 2 successful The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, alongside her dad, and had a fewer lines successful her mother's animated film, Kung Fu Panda 3, successful 2016. 

At property eight, she turned down the accidental to beryllium successful her mom's 2014 movie Maleficent.

'I asked Shiloh astir being Aurora, and she laughed successful my face,' Jolie told Elle astatine the time. 'She said she'd beryllium a horned creature.'

Her younger sister, Vivienne, yet took connected the relation and Shiloh has reportedly spent the past fewer years focusing connected a vocation successful dance.

Back successful 2022, a root told HollywoodLife that 'Angelina has made a immense effort to nurture her kids’ interests successful each kinds of things' and 'enrolled them successful everything from creation classes to machine programming to martial arts and, astatine 1 constituent oregon another, each the kids person tried retired creation lessons.'

After seeing that Shiloh was a earthy astatine dance, the performer made a 'big constituent to nurture that.'

'Shiloh started retired with backstage lessons earlier she joined a tiny workplace adjacent their location and past each done the pandemic, she was doing zoom classes. She’s precise committed to it,' the insider revealed. 'Angelina‘s amazed by however talented Shiloh is, but much than that she loves to spot however blessed Shiloh is erstwhile she’s dancing.'

Shiloh, oregon 'Shi' to her friends and family, archetypal wowed the satellite with her creation skills successful 2021, erstwhile a video of her performing went viral.

Shiloh has been a subordinate of Millennium Dance Complex for galore years and has gone viral for her moves a fig of times.

In May, her longtime choreographer, Keelan Carter, revealed to DailyMail.com that the teen could not beryllium further from the stereotypical Hollywood 'nepo baby.'

'Shiloh is an exceptionally talented dancer, demonstrating dedication and hard work,' the accomplished choreographer, histrion and manner decorator continued.

'She is simply a sincere and straightforward idiosyncratic who ne'er uses her personage presumption to her advantage.'

'Shi does not trust connected her celebrated sanction to execute her goals. Honestly, I didn't adjacent cognize who she was astatine archetypal and I don't deliberation this matters, particularly successful a creation studio.

'I recognize that it tin beryllium hard to spot the idiosyncratic beyond her personage status, but I impulse you to marque an effort for her. Believe me, it is worthy it.'  

Keelan told DailyMail.com that his caller creation videos featuring Shiloh 'were made successful the aforesaid mode I station immoderate dancer who comes to my sessions oregon classes and whom I judge deserves to beryllium featured.'

Keelan has posted galore videos featuring Shiloh, arsenic person respective of her different creation people colleagues, but the celebrated girl is seldom tagged successful immoderate of the videos, arsenic they each respect her privacy, DailyMail.com was told.

Although Angelina - who worked with the the UN Refugee Agency for much than 2 decades, visiting camps successful Cambodia, Tanzania, Sierra Leone, and Pakistan with each of her kids successful tow astatine times - has not commented specifically connected Shiloh's dance, she has spoken retired astir fostering the unsocial talents of each of her children.

'Children should beryllium allowed to explicit themselves successful immoderate mode they privation without anybody judging them due to the fact that it is an important portion of their growth,' she erstwhile said successful an interrogation with Reuters.

In 2022, Shiloh's dad, Brad, gushed astir his daughter's creation quality to Entertainment Tonight portion promoting his movie Bullet Train.

He called Shiloh 'very beautiful' and said that her endowment 'brings a teardrop the eye.'

'I don't cognize wherever she got it from. I'm Mr. Two-Left-Feet here,' Brad told ET astatine time.

Despite each six kids increasing up arsenic Hollywood royalty, the Jolie-Pitt brood are each precise unique.

In a 2010 interrogation with Vanity Fair, Angelina said, 'Mad's a existent intellectual, which I tin instrumentality nary recognition for genetically. He's large astatine school, large astatine history. He feels similar helium could beryllium a writer oregon question the satellite and larn astir places and things.

'Zahara's got an bonzer dependable and is conscionable truthful elegant and good spoken. Shiloh's hysterically funny, 1 of the goofiest, astir playful radical you'll ever meet.'

'Knox and Viv are classical lad and girl. She's truly female. And he's truly a small dude,' the histrion added.

She continued: 'Shiloh dresses similar a small dude. She likes to formal similar a boy. She wants to beryllium a boy. So we had to chopped her hair. She likes to deterioration boys' everything. She thinks she's 1 of the brothers.'