The actress, who was accepting the Maltin Modern Master Award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, grew upset as she remembered her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand. “How she must have felt on that night always really stuck with me,” she remarked.
Angelina Jolie is being up about her family’s past with the Academy Awards.
On Wednesday, the actress, who received the Maltin Modern Master Award, spoke with critic Leonard Maltin at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival. According to PEOPLE, she reminisced on her career and her experience with the Oscars.
Jolie, who is 49 years old, was questioned by Maltin about her Academy Award triumph in 2000 for her portrayal in Girl, Interrupted. She said, “I am trying to think of how much I’m going to share right now.”
Jolie, the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, remembered watching the Academy Awards in 1979. During that ceremony, her father received the Oscar for Best Actor for his performance in Coming Home. A few years after Voight and Bertrand separated in 1976, the event took place. Jolie said that her mother saw her ex at the awards presentation with “the other woman.”
Jolie remembered Bertrand, who also welcomed Jolie’s brother James Haven with Voight, saying, “My mom was home with two little kids.” “My mother always wanted to be an actress. I think my mother’s mother’s desire was to be an actress, which is probably why she brought her to the theater in Chicago all the time.”
She went on to say, “She was in her twenties because she had me when she was really young.” “She was divorced from a very famous man, and she was at home with her babies in an apartment watching him win an Oscar with another woman.”
Jolie said, “It was just a part of our family’s history.” “I remember thinking that [Bertrand] was there for my brother and me, and that was the decision she made. And I have always thought about how she must have felt that night.
More than twenty years later, the Maria actress said that she was able to share a wonderful moment with her mother when she received her Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2000.
Jolie added, “It was one of the best moments of my life to have that moment, to get off that stage and call her and say, ‘It’s yours’ — and I gave it to her.”
Jolie was awarded with the Maltin Modern Master Award at the film festival on Wednesday. She took the award from Ava DuVernay and recalled Bertrand, who passed away in 2007.
While discussing her deceased mother, the mother of six became upset.
“Many people live their lives without a way to express their creativity.” Jolie said, “I think of my mother. She had to give up her dreams of a creative life, but she embraced that side of mine.” “My mother would write letters to my characters, such as ‘Dear Gia,’ ‘Dear Lisa Rowe,’ and ‘Dear Lara Croft’…” I occasionally attempt to picture what she might write today.