I come from a small town where there wasn’t much depth to the environment I was raised in.
When Angelina Jolie began her acting career in the 1990s, the landscape of Hollywood was completely different. In a recent interview with WSJ. Magazine, the Oscar-winning actress expressed that if she were starting out now, she might not have pursued acting at all. Instead, she speculated that she may have focused on theater rather than the world of Hollywood.
“When I first started my career, there wasn’t as much pressure to constantly be in the public eye and share every detail of my life,” she explained. Nowadays, she can’t go outside without ending up in the headlines of tabloids. Growing up with famous parents like Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Jolie was surrounded by Hollywood, but she never found it to be as glamorous as people thought. “I never saw it as something significant or important,” she shared with WSJ. “I was raised in a superficial environment.” This may also explain why Jolie has taken a step back from acting. “Out of all the places in the world, Hollywood is not a healthy place. That’s why I seek authenticity,” she expressed.
In an interview with Vogue last September, Angelina Jolie shared that she had started cutting back on acting roles in 2016 to focus on her mental well-being. She expressed feeling a bit low and going through a personal transition. Jolie mentioned that she hadn’t felt like herself for about a decade and that there was a lot of healing to be done, with her still trying to find her way.
