Angelina Jolie Talks About "The Good Shepherd"

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Your work in Cambodia is so important to you. Are there other things you would like to initiate on the philanthropic side?
“Yeah, there are many different things. I will continue to work with refugees and I will never shift focus from them because I think it's important. It is where my heart lies. Cambodia — we just went back there and it's changed so much over the years. It is now Millennium Village that Brad and I are supporting. It's 148,000 acres of protected forest, and it's also many, many villagers. It's huge. A huge, huge project, which is not what I intended. But it's wonderful, and I'm learning a lot.

We're involved in many things…Brad's work in New Orleans…we're just trying to make sure we always stay focused and we don't — because our temptation is to just — we hear something that's going on, and we want to get involved. We're working together on AIDS orphans and passing some legislation for them on their behalf. There's no one actually fighting for them so we've put together a group of people that will do exactly that.

For Zahara as well we want to do something in Ethiopia supporting an orphanage there, but I think we will figure out something specific. Just as Maddox will take over his project, we want her to take over hers so we have to figure out what that is.”

Do movies have the ability to change things?
“I think they can, but I don't rely on movies to do that. I think we can't just rely on movies to do that.”

There are rumors Frank Miller wants you to be in Sin City 2.
“Yeah, we've talked about it and I've read the comic. I don't think the film's being made at this moment, so when it's actually going to be made, I'm sure we'll talk about it. It was a funny thing, because the idea came to me when I was pregnant. It was this idea…I'd been Clover and depressed and quiet, and I was feeling very maternal and pregnant. It was this idea of a sexy, violent [character] and I suddenly thought, ‘Maybe after I'm pregnant, that'll be nice to do.’ It didn't come at that time, but we are still talking about it.

I have no idea when it might go and if I have time when it does. But I think they are very interesting projects. I like the comics and I love him as a director so it's a possibility.”

What’s your interest in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged?
“I think it's a wonderful book. I'm a fan of her writing. It's an amazing project, in many ways a controversial project, and a complicated project. I think it needs to be done right so there's been a lot of talk as to how that can be. What are the important reasons for making it? There's a lot of really great people involved. It's being written now, so we'll see as the script comes out how close we are and then we'll know how close we are to possibly making it. Everybody involved, the producers involved, we all sat down around the table and agreed that if we couldn't do it right and couldn't do it justice, if along the way any one piece didn't come together - the right director, the right script - we would all just fold it and not do it. So that's where we're at now. We're taking it step by step so we can make damn sure that it's done right.”