![]() "One night, I was sitting in my bathtub with all my bruises and cuts. What am I doing? Please, somebody get me back to my hotel room.'" "Of course, at times I said, 'I'm an actor. And you know what? The worst thing that happens is I die. "I've always been ridiculously fearless" she admits. Within a week, she was going, 'I love it! Let's go again!'" "For one scene where Lara surfs through the air on a thin log, her stunt double refused to do it. ![]() The stunt doubles were clinging to their safety ropes," he marvels. She was doing the bunji jumps from 50 feet up in the air. "Angelina was doing triple back flips on the set. Her warrior tendencies worried director Simon West. She was even very flirty and very curvaceous as well as being a warrior deep down." Let's not bring gender into it." But in other scenes, Croft almost goes girly in long frocks and sipping tea. "The only thing that bothered me upfront were the conversations about if a man could hit a woman in the big fights. "And I liked the intense training because there is only one way to do something and for me it's in extremes." Suddenly, a nutritionist was giving me five meals a day." "But you had to do these things to maintain your energy," she says. They had me up at seven each morning and handed me a protein shake. "Then I got to the 'Tomb Raider' set and the great adventure began. "I had just wrapped a period piece (August's Original Sin (2000)) and I was drinking wine and smoking cigarettes and having a great time." "It was two and a half months of tough training," Jolie says. Getting some solid muscle mass wasn't easy. I realized it was a real movie with a solid character." "But then I met with the director and he told me it wouldn't be campy or stupid. ' I would walk by him and say, 'Oh, look at her breasts. My ex husband ( Trainspotting (1996)'s Jonny Lee Miller) used to play 'Tomb Raider. "I mean, I was flattered, but I thought it was ridiculous. "I thought it was the craziest thing I ever heard," she says. ![]() Of course, Hollywood doesn't have a great history of turning video games into movies which is why Jolie who had just won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted (1999) was a bit skeptical at first. But that's also the Lara of the hit video game which to date has sold over 21 million units. ![]() Afterall, it's not every hero who happens to travel the globe in the tightest cotton T-shirts. There is nothing calm about Lara Croft who has to abandon all pretty pretenses to save the universe this summer - with brawn, brains and her breasts. You know you really will spend the rest of your life with this person which is an amazing, calming feeling." It's like the love you feel for your family, but it's more. That's the kind of daze I was in." Forget the tabloids who predicted their marriage wouldn't last. "But I met Billy Bob and knew it was true love because I kept walking into walls. I was prepared to be completely alone for my entire life," she says. Jolie could really kick your butt after those daily three hour workout sessions and protein drinks gulped to play cyber-babe Lara Croft in the movie which opened in the US on June 8.īut although her arms are still sinewy and her gaze direct, she visibly softens when you mention her Significant Other. You almost hate to ask the personal questions now. In a white Gap T-shirt and khaki pants, she could be any other stepmom and wife who has errands to do after promoting her $100 million summer flick Tomb Raider (2001), opening in the UK on July 6th. Long black hair flowing loosely down her back, Jolie arrives for an early morning breakfast interview looking surprisingly demon free. I've been told that for years, but I've never paid attention," she says. Angelina Jolie believes in keeping part of Billy Bob Thornton close to her heart - at all times. On the end of it is a glass bubble filled with her husband's clotted blood. LOS ANGELES - There is strand of silver around her neck.
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