Angelina Jolie would like to leave Los Angeles, where the daughter of Jon Voight grew up with single mom Marcheline Bertrand in the Beverly Hills area.
The 49-year-old Oscar-winner told the September 4 issue of The Hollywood Reporter magazine on Friday that she would prefer to live in a country like Cambodia, where there is more privacy.
That is where the Maleficent actress finds more ‘humanity.’
But the star – whose next film is about Maria Callas – cannot pack up and go because she is still struggling with her divorce from Brad Pitt which is going on eight years.
Because they are continuing to hammer out the custody agreement with their two minor children, Vivienne and Knox, Jolie is not able to settle somewhere else.
Vivienne and Knox become adults when they turn 18-years-old on July 12, 2026.
Angelina Jolie would like to leave Los Angeles. The 49-year-old Oscar-winner told The Hollywood Reporter that she would prefer to live in a country like Cambodia, where there is more privacy. That is where the Maleficent actress finds more ‘humanity’
But the star – whose next film is about Maria Callas – cannot pack up and go because she is still struggling with her divorce from Brad Pitt which is going on eight years
Jolie also co-parented four other children with Pitt, but they are now adults and free to move about the globe as they wish.
They are Maddox, 18, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, and Shiloh, 18.
Jolie currently lives at a historic residence in Los Feliz, California.
It is a beaux arts mansion built for Cecil B. DeMille that she bought after her 2016 separation from Brad.
Pitt is in the Los Angeles area. He has been busy making movies, his next is Wolfs with George Clooney. And he dates jewelry executive Ines de Ramon.
‘I grew up in this town. I am here because I have to be here from a divorce, but as soon as they’re 18, I’ll be able to leave,’ Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter.
‘When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety.
‘I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be… that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here.
‘[After Los Angeles,] I’ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia. I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world.’
Because they are continuing to hammer out the custody agreement with their two minor children, Vivienne and Knox, Jolie is not able to settle somewhere else
Vivienne and Knox become adults when they turn 18-years-old on July 12, 2026. Here all six kids are seen together with Jolie
‘I am here because I have to be here from a divorce, but as soon as they’re 18, I’ll be able to leave,’ Jolie told The Hollywood Reporter. ‘When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety’; seen in 2021
The artist also spoke about how she loves to have people around her.
‘I like to be with people I love. I’m not somebody begging to be alone. I’m not that person that feels like, “Oh, I wish I could just be alone so I could have my guilty pleasures.”
‘Because usually my guilty pleasure is being with somebody. I love doing something that makes them happy. That really does make me happy.’
And she doesn’t have a lot of Hollywood pals as she brings up ‘betrayal.’
‘I don’t really have those kinds of relationships,’ added the Gia actress.
‘Maybe it’s losing your parent young. Maybe it’s working. Maybe it’s being somebody who’s been betrayed a lot.
‘I don’t have a lot of those warm, close relationships as much that I lean on. But I have a few, and a few is enough. Loung [Ung, the Cambodian American human rights activist] is one of my closest friends.
‘My mother was very close to me. I lost her. I’ve had a few friends over the years not be there for my family in their hour of need. I have a couple of people that I trust. What did Maria Callas die with? Two trusted people.’
Callas receives flowers after her performance in Norma at the Lyric Opera Company of Chicago, 1954
Jolie as Maria Callas in film Maria. She also said she had an emotional reaction when she was taught to express herself as an opera singer. ‘My first class, I cried. I was sad, I was scared. It was a strange physical body reaction’
Also in her interview, Jolie talked about her feelings toward Hollywood.
‘I was an artist early to just help my mom pay bills,’ she said.
‘I’ve had times where I’ve loved being an artist and I’ve had times where I felt very, very far away from being comfortable in the business. I’m hoping to be able to have a new relationship with it.’
She has two new films.
Maria, about opera singer Maria Callas, and Without Blood, the war drama she wrote and directed from Alessandro Baricco’s 2002 novel.
She said her film Maria is very personal to her and it really touched her.
And Jolie felt for the singer.
‘People were quite aggressive when she wasn’t able to be what they wanted her to be. They were very unkind, and she carried a lot of trauma and she worked very, very hard. I just began to really care about her and wanted that aspect of the story to be told,’ she told HR.
Angelina said someone in a ‘past relationship’ told her she could never sing which held her back for years. ‘So it took me getting past a lot of things to start singing’
Jolie attends a red carpet for Maria during the 81st Venice International Film Festival on August 29,
She also said she had an emotional reaction when she was taught to express herself as an opera singer.
‘My first class, I cried. I was sad, I was scared. It was a strange physical body reaction.
‘I stood there, and [the instructor] said, “OK, just be in your body. Take a deep breath, let it all out and just open your mouth and just let that sound come from the inside.”
‘And that’s when I became really emotional. You discover how much we lock our pain in our bodies.
‘Our voice gets tight, our shoulders go high, we get stomach aches, we do all these things, and it’s a protection for us. The hardest thing was feeling again and breathing again and opening again in the way that this film required that I had really not done for quite a while.’
And she is drawn to creating.
(L-R) Janine Jackowski, Jonas Dornbach, Pierfrancesco Favino, Pablo Larrain, Angelina Jolie, Alba Rohrwacher, Kodi Smit-McPhee, guest, Haluk Bilginer
‘I wish I knew how to be still and calm. I’m propelled forward constantly, and it’s not always the best feeling. For better or for worse, I’m a very deeply feeling person and kind of a raw nerve. So when I feel something deeply, I jump. I feel alive or I connect to something true inside myself.’
Angelina said someone in a ‘past relationship’ told her she could never sing which held her back for years. ‘So it took me getting past a lot of things to start singing.’
And she was glad sons Maddox and Pax were there for her on the set of Maria to comfort her when a scene got tough. They worked as assistant directors.
‘You really try to hide from your children how much pain and sadness you carry. And so for them to be with you when you’re expressing it at such a level, I think it was the first time they ever heard me cry like that. That’s usually for the shower.’
Next up? She would to play a real villain, not a mean person who is deep down good like Maleficent, but someone very twisted.
