The actress has arranged up with jeweler and ex-Asprey CEO Robert Procop to design a line of necklaces, rings and more jewelaries, all income from the sales benefitting Angie's charity Education Partnership for Children of Conflict of the world.
The star even wore one of the pieces, a black spinel necklace bezel set in rose gold, to the SALT premiere in Germany.
If you, unlike some people, are wondering where to buy of Angie's wares, there's bad news:
The expensive, high-end pieces will only be sold privately to Procop's clients. Boo.
Last year, Angie and beau Brad Pitt designed some bling for Asprey that also benefitted the do-gooding actress's charity.
We wish to her to help for the people... any way
Angelina Jolie started filming The Tourist, With her romantic thriller with Johnny Depp, here, before shooting moved to Venice. And she has returned to promote its premiere, partner Brad Pitt in tow, and all six of their children.
And yes, she was doing shopping. "But we're actually not shopping for toys,
" she says. "We were out there because the girls needed basic pants and shoes and ect..... . I have to do a lot of Christmas shopping out of limits, because we're usually in a different country and we have to have it shipped to the next country we're going to."
In The Tourist, directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (The Lives Of Others) she plays a "wild child" mystery woman who's on the run country-to-country seeking to reconnect with her criminal boyfriend. To throw off the authorities, she picks a tourist named Frank at random on a train and kindles a romance. At one point, the besotted Frank, bemoaning the predictability of his life, compliments her by saying "You are the least grounded person I know."
The line seems ironic directed at Jolie, who insists she is indeed grounded, despite the seeming rootlessness of her life. The girl who wore a vial of her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton's blood around her neck, and famously said, "You're young, you're drunk, you're in bed, you have knives, s--t happens," is no more.
"I do think I'm very grounded," Jolie says. "People become more grounded when they have children and get older. And in some funny way, being grounded allows you to be even more free. There's a funny misconception about what it is to be young and wild. You actually don't have as much control over your own life. You don't do things with as much bravery because you don't understand it. But then when you get older you can tackle bigger things and you can handle them.
"I'm so grounded, but there's chaos around me in a way there's never been."
It's a life of doors opening and closing, and new opportunities created therein. She's starring in The Tourist because filming was halted on Pitt's movie Moneyball (based on the book about Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane -- financial problems have been sorted out, and it's since restarted production).
"Brad had suddenly a window where he was shooting Moneyball. And I said, 'If there's something that shoots in a great location and it's a character I haven't done before, I'll do it.' And someone said, 'There's this project that shoots in Paris and Venice.' And I said 'Okay, I'll take that one!' " she says with a laugh.
"And then I looked at it and said, 'I don't want to make the mistake of being an American doing a European-style film and it becoming too American.' "
So she called up von Donnersmarck, whose work she admired, even though she was asking him to direct a light thriller. "It was a crazy shot to take, but even if he'd said no, I thought it was a chance to do something with him in the future."
The shot paid off. The German director, after the heaviness of The Lives of Others, "said he wanted to do something that was a pleasure, set in a lovely world of how you wish Paris was and you wish Venice was, so everybody could feel this elegance for a moment. (He had all involved watch the 1955 Hitchcock movie To Catch A Thief for inspiration.)
"Then Johnny was interested, and suddenly it was this lovely project."
Depp and Jolie, interestingly enough, had never met. The combination was enough to put the tabs and paparazzi in full scandal-probe mode.
"Johnny's just so "¦ he's just such an easy person to be with and work with. It's odd, there's all these things about what you are in the press. But at the end of the day, what we'd do is get together, me and Brad and him and Vanessa. And our boys would end up playing video games all night while we drank wine and talked. It was just lovely."
As surely as light turns dark, the travelling Depp-Jolie road show took another turn after The Tourist -- two months during which Jolie made her feature directorial debut filming a tiny-budgeted romance set during the Bosnian War between a Muslim woman and a Serbian man.
"I kind of live in two worlds. I kind of live in two different worlds, the film world and life outside, and I wake up every day as a mom. Sometimes my job is just for fun and sometimes it coincides with things I care about.
