Angelina Was Sick For Two Days So She Wrote A Screenplay

08/31/2011 by

Angelina Jolie is on the cover of the upcoming issue of Vanity Fair, in which she sets to rest rumors about a surprise wedding between her and Brad Pitt.  “I’m not pregnant. I’m not adopting at the moment,” she also discloses in the interview.

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She is, however, making her screenwriting and directorial debut with the upcoming film  In the Land of Blood and Honey.  She tells the magazine that the screenplay was the result of trying to cope with a two-day stint with the flu.

“I had to be quarantined from the children for two days,” Jolie says. “I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end.”   Alright.  I’m calling shenanigans on this one.

  1. Who paces while they have the flu?
  2. Can we just cool it with the self-righteous “I don’t’ watch tv” claims?  WE ALL WATCH TV.
  3. Really?  A first screenplay in TWO DAYS?  Either the story sucks or she has a really talented ghostwriter with a rock-solid non-disclosure agreement.
  4. The attic?

Eh, maybe I’m being too cynical.  I know how productive busy moms can be when they finally just get a moment alone.  Why, just the other day I got a short break while my kids were at grandma’s house, and I managed to do three loads of laundry.  Angelina and I are practically living parallel lives.

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Filed Under: Angelina Jolie, Celebrities, Celebrities Are Just Like Us, Celebrities Say The Darndest Things, Celebrity Moms, Featured Story, TV Tagged With: Angelina Jolie, vanity fair
  • Heather Sisk

    WTF? The attic? Pacing with the flu? Yeah not so much, I think she’s full of shit 

  • Anonymous

    I’m sure the one thing this family is good at is non-disclosure agreements.  And I see a ghostwriter.  And I also think it’ll suck just because she claims she wrote it while she had the flu.  Last time I had the flu it was all I could do to lift my head from the pillow.

  • Anonymous

    Angelina, my dear…the flu.  You’re doing it wrong.

  • http://twitter.com/txtingmrdarcy Brooke Shelby

    She’s never felt so exposed!!! I mean, except for all those movie nude scenes. And that time where she kissed her brother on national television. Or admitted that she had sex with Billy Bob in the limo on the way to whatever awards show that is.
     
    Am I the only one still utterly puzzled by this relationship??

  • Anonymous

    This is hilarious. Also? Never heard of a 48-hour flu.

  • Anonymous

    What was that flu that everyone was all freaked-the-fuck-out about, a couple of years ago?  Swine flu?  I think that was it.  Anyway…my son had it (SUPPOSEDLY.  I still call bullshit.).  He felt absofreakinglutely fine, but tested positive, causing him to need to be “quarantined” from others.  If this story is true, I’m guessing the 2 days is the time where she was deemed to be the most contagious, and if she did have that silly Swine Flu…yeah…she could have felt fine and had her normal energy.

  • Anonymous

    hehehehee hysterical
    and totally agree with you on all points

    people who say they don’t watch TV mean that they actually watch Netflix on the computer.  
    it’s still TV.

  • http://twitter.com/ladyphlogiston Caitlyn

    given their lifestyle, the attic may have been fully furnished and a very nice place to be when you’re not feeling well.

    but otherwise, yeah.  what you said.

  • http://twitter.com/sshabein Sara Habein

    Friends, there’s this thing called a first draft. I think it’s entirely possibly to write a first draft in 2 days. I don’t think she’s saying “I wrote the whole thing and it was 100% done in 48 hours” but rather “I STARTED this when I was sick.”