Angelina Jolie reveals that while she and Brad Pitt are “racing to see which one of us gets to retire first,” neither is looking forward to giving up their “nomadic lifestyle.”
Jolie sat down for an interview on “Anderson” yesterday, and spoke extensively about her plans for the future when Anderson Cooper brought up an interview Brad Pitt gave recently in which he voiced wanting to retire at age 50.
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“We’re both racing to see which one of us gets to retire first,” said Jolie, seeming skeptical of Pitt’s plan. “We both, like most people, we like being home. Whoever is the one who is home tends to be the happier one because we get to play with the kids and the other one is out earning the money.”
Pitt and Jolie alternate taking care of their six kids, so only one of them works at a time. But Jolie says that, while she was shooting her directorial debut “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” she did put Pitt to work on set.
“He was with the kids taking them to school in the morning,” she said. “Then he’d come to the set in the afternoon and do stills photography.”
Cooper then asked about Jolie and Pitt’s “nomadic lifestyle” and whether they worry about their children eventually wanting to settle down.
“I will listen, as my mother would have, to them and if they start to complain about it … Right now they love it,” she said. “If they’re in one place for two months they want to know why we’re not getting on an airplane … They’re such a big traveling pack it’s not one child moving around the world and missing friends. Because we have traveled a lot, we’re kind of lucky in that we have friends around the world, so if we end up in Budapest or Germany or Africa or Vietnam, they actually call their friends.”
Jolie gets wistful about the idea that her kids may someday want more of a homebase.
“I don’t want to settle,” she said. “They’ll probably all end up living all around the world. My old age will be Brad and I traveling around the world to try to visit our children in random countries.”