Angelina Jolie's Oscar-winning father left when she was just a year old
Apparently, it was love at first sight when Jon Voight met actress Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie's mother, at the Beverly Hills Hotel one night. "I was quite taken with her and in the conversation I was like, 'You know, I could have two kids with you,'" Voight told Men's Journal (via Express). "She didn't blink, and neither did I. Indeed, I had two children with that girl. Unfortunately, things did not go well. Voight had an affair and the aftermath caused "a lot of pain and anger," he told Express. It had a lasting impact on Jolie, who was still a baby when Voight and Bertrand parted ways.
"I never thought I'd have kids, I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person," Jolie told Elle in 2014. "Coming from a broken home, you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them." She was credited as Angelina Jolie Voight in her first film, but 1982's "Lookin' to Get Out" would be the last time she would use her father's name professionally. When speaking on The Hollywood Reporter's "Awards Chatter" podcast in 2017, Jolie said she dropped the "Voight" part because she "didn't feel as close" to "her father and didn't feel comfortable being" hired by a name. «
She started acting to help her mom pay the bills
Angelina Jolie probably didn't even know what a bill was when she made her film debut alongside her father in 1982's "Lookin' to Get Out," but when she returned to acting as a young adult, she was well aware. of what she was. she took to keep a house running. The actress-director stopped by The Hollywood Reporter to discuss her career on her "Awards Chatter" podcast in 2017, revealing that she only re-entered the industry because she needed to start helping her single mother (who also appeared on " Lookin' to Get Out," playing "Girl in Jeep" cameo) makes ends meet at home.
"When I started acting...it was a job," Jolie said on the podcast. "It was creative work...[but] you're young and you don't know exactly who you are and yet you also have a microphone in front of your face, and you're 17, 18, people ask [for] your opinions and you haven't formed them." yet, and shouldn't form them yet, completely." Jolie quickly realized that following her parents into the family business was not going to be a walk in the park. More than enough money to help her mother, but the rigors of celebrity life were already taking their toll on the young star. "I was miserable," she admitted. "I was completely unhappy."
