Salma Hayek
Image by Robin Marchant/GettyAngelina Joliehis sons Maddox and Pax they were total pros on the set of their mom’s new movie.
Salma Hayek58, said that Maddox and Pax worked hard in their roles in the assistant director’s department Without Bloodwhich Jolie wrote and directed, and Hayek starred in it.
“He works hard,” Hayek said people at the Toronto International Film Festival, where Without Blood premiered on Sunday, September 8.
Hayek added that Jolie was “very professional” with Maddox, 23, and Pax, 20, on set.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s children have been in the spotlight. The former couple began dating in 2005, three years after the actress adopted her son, Maddox, from Cambodia. Pitt then accompanied Jolie to Ethiopia in 2005 to adopt Zahara, and they legally adopted their two children in 2006. The Oscar winner went on to (…)
“He’s demanding. He’s got the respect of the crew, and he’s good with the crew, and he’s on board,” Hayek said. “They don’t treat me like they treat me outside. They’re like, ‘You have to come,’ and I go, ‘OK!’ It’s kind of fun.
“He works hard. He’s very serious about what he’s doing,” Hayek said.
Hayek admits that at the beginning of production, he preferred to play with the children of longtime friends, but quickly changed tactics.
Angelina Jolie and Pax Jolie-Pitt
Monica Schipper/EveryStory2024/Getty Images“It was funny, I was teasing him at first, but then I had to say, ‘No. I have to separate and just treat him as a professional because it’s rude,'” he recalled.
In the new war drama, Hayek plays Nina, who faces the undetermined consequences of war. said Hayek Entertainment Weekly that Jolie, 49, had to convince him to take part.
“I don’t want to make a movie. I don’t want to be Nina,” Hayek explained. “I don’t want to go where I’ve been, emotionally. So I told Angie, I don’t want to do this to this woman. I don’t want to. It hurts a lot. It’s been years since I got to a place in my life where I’m really happy. I don’t want to suffer for weeks and weeks.
Jolie’s children also work Pablo LarraÃn‘s Mariawhere Jolie plays a legendary opera singer Maria Callas.
Mother of six! Angelina Jolie has more than a few children in her brood, so it’s no surprise that the actress is passionate about parenthood. The Oscar winner shared Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne, with ex-husband Brad Pitt. The former couple broke up after two years of marriage (…)
“Mad and Pax are the same. Do the AD (assistant director) job. They’ve done it a few times, and I think it’s good for them,” Jolie said. The Hollywood Reporter in an interview published last month. “Pax tends to make stills and he gets carried away, and Pablo is very good and knows that he is good.”
Jolie also recently collaborated with her daughter Vivienne, 16, who is credited as an assistant and producer on a Broadway musical. An outsider. The coming-of-age production won best musical at the Tony Awards in June.
Jolie, who shared Vivienne with her ex-husband Brad Pittpraised his daughter’s eye for the theater when he was announced as a producer in August 2023.
“Viv reminds me of my mother because she does not focus on being the center of attention but on being a support to other creatives. She is very wise and serious about the theater and works hard to know how to contribute,” Jolie said in a statement at the time.
