Angelina Jolie has made the rare move of talking about her six children’s future.

The 49-year-old Maria star told E! News last week that she has an idea of what they want to do when they grow up.

The Gia actress shares Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox with ex Brad Pitt, but several of the older children appear to be estranged from him.

When speaking with E! news at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria in Los Angeles, Jolie said she does not expect any of her kids to follow in her footsteps or those of Pitt’s.

Angelina Jolie has made the rare move of talking about her six children’s future. Seen on October 26 in Hollywood

The 49-year-old Maria star told E! News last week that she has an idea of what they want to do when they grow up

So acting is not in their future.

‘No, I think they’re especially shy, very private people,’ Angelina shared. ‘And they want to be private.’

The Salt actress, 49, is receiving Oscar buzz for the film.

But many of the kids have already been working behind the scenes.

Maddox and Pax assisted director Pablo Larrain on her film Maria, which is about tortured opera singer Maria Callas.

‘Mad and Pax were on this one doing AD [assistant directing] work,’ Angelina told The Hollywood Reporter in August. ‘They’ve done that quite a few times, and I think that’s good for them.’

She added, ‘Pax tends to do stills and he gets brought in, and Pablo was wonderful and recognized that he was good at it.’

And the Oscar winner was happy her sons were on hand as she tackled the difficult role of Maria.

The Gia actress shares Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox with ex Brad Pitt , but several of the older children appear to be estranged from him. From left: Pax, Angie, Zahara and Maddox in September in NYC

When speaking with E! news at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria in Los Angeles, Jolie said she does not expect any of her kids to follow in her footsteps or those of Pitt’s

‘I have never had a set where my family is not allowed to be there because I’m focusing—I’m not that person,’ she explained.

‘You can climb all over me or visit. It really meant a lot that my boys were with me on Maria.

‘When I would have really heavy times, they would come over and just give me a hug or a cup of tea.’

‘That was probably one of the more intense things was that—usually when I’m expressing that much pain, it’s not in front of my children,’ Angelina went on.

‘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.’

So acting is not in their future. ‘No, I think they’re especially shy, very private people,’ Angelina shared. ‘And they want to be private.’ Seen with Pax in September in NYC

But many of the kids have already been working behind the scenes. Maddox and Pax assisted director Pablo Larrain on her film Maria, which is about tortured opera singer Maria Callas. ‘Mad and Pax were on this one doing AD [assistant directing] work,’ Angelina told The Hollywood Reporter in August. ‘They’ve done that quite a few times, and I think that’s good for them.’ Seen in September in Toronto

Jolie with daughters Zahara and Shiloh at the Rome Film Festival 2021

She added, ‘That’s usually for the shower.’

Maria hits select theaters on November 27 in the US and January 10 in the UK; it goes to Netflix on December 11.

This comes after her daughter Vivienne worked on the Broadway play The Outsiders. Before that she played young Aurora in the 2014 movie Maleficent.

Maddox has worked on Jolie’s 2015 painful love story By The Sea with Pittand her 2017’s drama First They Killed My Father. And he helped out on Without Blood,

Pax voiced the character Yoo in Angelina’s animated 2016 film Kung Fu Panda 3 and served as set photographer on First They Killed My Father.

Shiloh Jolie-Pitt voiced the character Shuai Shuai in Kung Fu Panda 3.

Zahara had an uncredited role in Maleficent and voiced the character Meng Meng, a panda triplet, in 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3.

Maria hits select theaters on November 27 in the US and January 10 in the UK; it goes to Netflix on December 11

Maria: What the critics think 

The Daily Mail – Brian Viner 

Rating:

‘[Jolie] spends most of Maria’s two hours as a whining, self-pitying, endlessly needy victim… all that said, she gives one of the performances of her career.

‘This might be a flawed depiction of Callas but not by her; wearing enough mascara to sink one of Onassis’s ships she is completely believable in the role and even does some of her own warbling alongside some top-class lip-synching to the real Callas, having reportedly trained for seven months until she was ready to perform in public for the first time. Admittedly I’m no expert but I couldn’t tell the difference’

The Times – Kevin Maher

Rating:

‘This is a film fed by, and consistently cutting to, the operas that defined its subject. Yet there is not a single moment that is emotionally operatic. It is wilfully, wearily flat.’

BBC – Nicholas Barber

‘The film is also too adoring and reverential to let us sympathise with its supposedly fragile heroine.

‘Unusually for someone who is drug-addled and terminally ill, Jolie’s Callas never looks anything less than magnificent, and she is always supremely dignified, poised and confident, out-quipping everyone who crosses her path.’

The Telegraph – Robbie Collin

Rating:

‘Jolie is given ample space to dazzle, but less to surprise.

‘Dazzle she does though, with a fine understanding of just how camp she can go without proceedings becoming too operatic for their own good.

Vanity Fair – Richard Lawson

‘[The film] struggles to hit the high notes.’

‘With a few details removed, Maria could be about any grand diva, this blurry picture of a woman swanning through the final week of her life.’

Deadline – Stephanie Bunbury

‘The actor’s commitment to this creation is obvious at every turn. Knowing that Callas was only happy when on stage, she learned to sing for the role; the voice we hear is a blend of Callas and Jolie’s own.’

The Guardian – Xan Brooks

Rating:

‘Midway through, I was all set to file this as a posturing distraction, destined for a life as a high-camp curio. But it ground me down, won me over and by the closing credits, God help us, I was hoping for an encore.’

The Independent – Clarisse Loughrey

‘It’s a career-defining bit of synchronicity, bolstered by one of Jolie’s very best performances. Her work has always been about that immaculate sense of control over posture and tone.’

Variety – Owen Gleiberman

‘[Angelina] seizes our attention, playing Maria as woman of wiles who is imperious, mysterious, fusing the life force of a genius diva with the downbeat emotional fire of a femme fatale.

‘Jolie, for the first time in years, reminds you that she can be a deadly serious actor of commanding subtlety and power.’