Angelina Jolie blames being vegan for “nearly killing” her. The Salt star says her guilty pleasure is to eat red meat and that when she restricted her diet to not include any animal products, it had negative effects on her health. She said: “I joke that a big juicy steak is my beauty secret. But seriously, I love red meat. I was a vegan for a long time, and it nearly killed me. I found I was not getting enough nutrition.” The 35-year-old brunette beauty also admits she enjoys seeing her hands “grow older” as it is a sign of how much she has grown up and matured as a mother to six children. She added: “Happiness is when I look down at my hands and they are washing a baby. I can sort of see my hands grow older and I love it.”

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Angelina Jolie is unsure if she is the right person to play Marilyn Monroe on the big screen. The stunning actress – who is reported to be portraying the curvy blonde bombshell in an upcoming epic based on a book by Andrew O’Hagan- admits she knows nothing about the film, and is unsure whether she would even be suitable for the part. She told BANG Showbiz: “This is a new rumour. I haven’t heard a thing about it. I don’t think. I don’t know if I’d be the best person to play her.” Author Andrew, who wrote the book The Life and Opinions of Maf The Dog, and Of His Friend Marilyn Monroe, confirmed the 35-year-old actress would be starring alongside Hollywood legend George Clooney in the film, where he is set to portray Frank Sinatra. However, Angelina claims she needs to have a chat with George – who is close pals with her long-term lover Brad Pitt – first. She laughed: “I don’t know though, I haven’t talked to George about it yet!”

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Angelina Jolie has said she was in her element filming action scenes in new thriller Salt. “I’d done a lot of action movies but they were all based in fantasy in some way. This was the first time I got to do something based in reality and I think that makes all the action harder and softer and just a lot more fun,” she explained. “In most action films you have that one gun but in this one it’s everybody taking everyone else’s. I think I got to play with just about everything including a fire extinguisher in a way I had never used it,” the actress laughed. In the film the actress plays Salt, a CIA agent who’s on the run after being labelled a Russian sleeper spy, and she revealed she’s been left with a permanent scar from filming. “Oddly I got injured in one of the most ridiculously easy scenes in the movie, I had to just jump into a door and shoot sideways while I roll on the ground. “I rolled in to a desk and cracked my skull, it was bleeding and I have a little scar now on my head,” she revealed. At first Angelina even thought she’d lost her hearing in the accident. “I actually thought that I had some problems because I couldn’t hear anybody very well and I thought ‘oh my god’ but I’d forgotten I had my ear plugs in, I was fine!” she laughed.

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Angelina Jolie was keen to work on Wanted when she heard James McAvoy had been cast. The 35-year-old beauty admits it was the casting of the Scottish actor which persuaded her to work on the project, because she though he was an “unusual” choice. She said: “I was itching to do something that was physical because I had done some emotional films and I had been at home with the kids. “I didn’t know that there was anything original out there until I came across this script. “Then I heard they were casting James McAvoy and I thought, ‘That sounds really unusual.’ Everyone thinks of him as this sweet, fun guy – which he is – but he’s also from Scotland, and that’s a tough place.” The Hollywood star also admits her character in the film, Fox, was “interesting” to her as she wasn’t “having fun”. She said: “Fox is not easy to be around. She was interesting to me because she isn’t the love interest and she isn’t having fun. She’s darker.”

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Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie enjoy romantic dates in a hotel Jacuzzi. The couple and their six children are currently staying at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley, California, while the actor works on his next movie Moneyball and staff have treated their stay like a “military operation”. A source said: “We approached the arrival of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt — plus their kids and entourage — as if it was a military operation.” According to the insider, the couple regularly book the hotel’s spa facilities for personal use in order to have “romantic date nights”, while they are also happy to pay to have “Under repair” signs posted on the swimming pool so it can be closed for their kids to splash around in peace. In addition, despite the couple rarely seen in the public areas of the hotel, staff were reportedly ordered to remove any magazines with them on the cover from the lobby newsstand. The source told the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper: ”That pretty much cleaned out our celebrity magazines since Brad and Angie are on the cover of those magazines almost every week!” Brad, Angelina, their family and entourage occupy a whole floor of the building, and have had “anti-paparazzi” reflective material placed on all of the windows to maintain their privacy. In addition, the source reports that the Changeling actress – who is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador – has been spending a large amount of her free time in the library at the University of California’ Berkeley campus doing research for a book about the international refugee crisis.

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