The Japan Times gets close and personal with Hollywood's hottie-cum-humanitarian on making films with a message, being hounded by the media — and life with Brad Pitt.
LOS ANGELES Angelina Jolie can be quite the chatterbox on certain topics — like the need to bridge the gap between the developed and developing worlds, or the challenges faced by women.
"We order a plate of food at a restaurant, and it may be overpriced, but too often the portion's too big — more than one person needs — encouraging obesity, which is a luxury, but also a negative condition," she blurts out partway through a long monologue on the issue. "And then we leave half or more of what's on the plate, to be thrown away, when women and children — people — are starving in so many countries."