Angelina Jolie says her kids are not ‘dying’ to be in movies

Angelina Jolie, an American actress, sat down to speak at a panel at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival where she opened up about her children and whether they want to follow in her footsteps.

Giving her opinion, she said she didn’t feel that they have an “affinity” for films, “No. I don’t know, that's not my doing. I always wanted them to be around film because I wanted them to know as a part of — it's such a wonderful family, to be creative, to be an artist, to be… They're not interested.”

“They really don't like any of the celebrity part of it, especially Shiloh hates it. I think in a very healthy way they don't … It's not a normal thing. It's a silly thing,” she added.

Although, she admitted that they had connected with the art form in their own way.

The actress elaborated, “Yes, they've been on set with me. And some of them dance, some of them paint, some of them love theater, but none of them are dying to be on screen.”

The closest they’ve come to working on stage is when her sons, Maddox and Pax, worked backstage on the film, Maria. “It's good to start them in working. [You’ve] got to run around and do anything for everybody. And so they've been doing that in a few films. And then Pax was doing some of the photography work.”

Concluding, she added, “And I think for my children … I hope I'm giving them space to figure out who they actually are and something that they want to live for that's authentic to them so it holds in their life,”