In a rare interview, Angelina Jolie gave a glimpse into working on set with her eldest sons. Maddox and Pax, two of Jolie's six children with ex-husband Brad Pitt , worked as production assistants with her on the recently released biographical film Maria (in the US) , based on opera singer Maria Callas . She said: “The character [Callas] has a lot of pain and they've of course seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn't experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child.
“So they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea.” Jolie went on to say that it was “a new way” of learning how to be open and honest with her kids about how she feels, “in an even greater way”. The film isn’t available in the UK yet, but it’s scheduled to release in cinemas on January 10.
Here is everything we know about the actors’ children and what they are up to now. Jolie and Pitt's oldest child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, was born on August 5, 2001, in Battambang, Cambodia . After living in an orphanage for seven months, Jolie adopted him after becoming enamoured with the country while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider the previous year.
At the time of Maddox’s adoption, Jolie was still married to actor Billy Bob Thornton, but she decided to adopt him on her own. Jolie was initially nervous about motherhood, writing in Time that she “never thought” she could be a mother because of her un.
