Angelina Jolie to put acting on back burner

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COURTESY GUARDIAN

Angelina Jolie has revealed that she plans to take a step back from acting to focus on directing and humanitarian causes.

“I’ve had a wonderful career and I’m happy to have had all those opportunities to tell stories and work for as long as I have,” she said. “But I’m able to be selective and I would like to focus more on writing and directing; and above all I would like to focus more on my work with the UN and with PSVI [the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative].”

As well as having had a long and successful acting career – starring in Girl, Interrupted, which won her a best supporting actress Oscar, and Mr and Mrs Smith, where she met her husband Brad Pitt – Jolie, 38, is also a special envoy to the UN and has been a vocal campaigner against sexual violence. Jolie said part of the appeal of the film was the updated morals of the fairytale, which did not categorise life into simply good and evil – a message she said she was keen to pass on to her own children.

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