"If anybody comes into my home and tries to hurt my kids, I've no
problem shooting them." That's Angelina Jolie, revealing her
up-with-the-Second-Amendment maternal instincts to Britain's Mail
on Sunday.
And, as an added warning, the protective mom of Maddox, 6, Pax, 4,
Zahara, 3, Shiloh, 2, and the still-baking, Brad Pitt-spawned double
buns in her oven, points out that she "bought original, real guns of the
type we used in 'Tomb Raider' for security."
"Brad and I are not against having a gun in the house, and we do have
one," acknowledges Jolie, who is out stumping for the
soon-to-be-released thriller, Wanted, in which she plays a
weapons-wielding assassin. "And yes, I'd be able to use it if I had to.
I could handle myself. I think there are certain combat skills that
would come out. I tend to want to throw an elbow."
Says the goodwill-promoting earth mother, "There's a side to me that
people know is humanitarian, and there's a side to me that's a mommy.
But there's also the side that likes to get down and dirty and run and
jump around and fire guns."
And while it'll probably be several years before any of her tots see her
popping a cap or 50 in Wanted, she's not going to shield them from
violence on the big screen.
"It's just not a reality in this day and age to say, 'I'm never going to
let my kids watch a movie that has a gun in it,'" explains Angelina.
"It's important to know that this exists. But I'm very clear with my
children about who's a good guy and who's bad."
Meanwhile, the actress and her heaving, ah-ooga!-triggering cleavage
strike a scarlet-lipped, come-hither "Barbarella"-meets-Brigitte Bardot
pose for the July issue of Vanity FairM.
In the interview, which was conducted before she confirmed she was
carrying twins (by the by, their arrival is so eagerly anticipated that
bidding on the first pics has reached an unprecedented $15 million,
reports TMZ.com), she admits she didn't intend to fall for Pitt -- or
any other actor.
"After my last divorce [from Billy Bob Thornton], I said I was
absolutely going to marry somebody in another field, an aid worker or
something," maintains Angelina. "Then I met Brad, everything I wasn't
looking for, but the best man, the best father I could possibly wish
for, you know?"
Besides, she adds, "I don't see him as an actor. I see him very much as
a dad, as somebody who loves travel and architecture more than being in
movies."
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