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by Jennifer Pinner
 Angelina Jolie breaks her silence about Jennifer Anniston!
Up until now, Angelina Jolie rarely mentions Brad Pitt’s ex-wife Jennifer Aniston, but never has anything harsh to say about the woman.
However, in a candid interview with Vogue magazine, the Tomb Raider actress speaks of how she fell hard for Brad Pitt on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith - but insists she didn't chase him because he was married to his “best friend.”
In her first in-depth interview about life as half of Hollywood’s first
couple, Jolie told the fashion magazine that she never set out to ruin
Pitt's marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston - it just happened.
“I didn't know much about exactly where Brad was in his personal life [when they met on the set of Smith]. But it was clear he was with his best friend, someone he loves and respects." Jolie said.
The actress also said she was committed to life as a single mom when she was paired with Pitt in the espionage action flick.
“Brad was a huge surprise to me,” she said. “I, like most people, had a very distant impression of him from . . . the media. I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn't,” she said. “I was quite content to be a single mom.”
The Tomb Raider babe admitted she grew more and more excited at working with Pitt every day while shooting Smith in 2003 and 2004 and said warmly: “Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, 'God, I can't wait to get to work,' Whether it was shooting a scene or arguing about a scene or gun practice or dance class or doing stunts - anything we had to do with each other, we just found a lot of joy in it together and a lot of real teamwork. We just became kind of a pair.”
While Jolie adamantly insisted she and Pitt were not seeking to pair up, the sultry beauty confessed they were tempted to make more of what they had.
“It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise
that it might mean something more than we'd earlier allowed ourselves to believe,” Jolie said. “And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.”
Jolie said she and Pitt remained "very, very good friends" after shooting Smith, but were resigned to staying nothing more than friends until Pitt and Aniston announced their break up in early 2005.
Pitt and Aniston filed for divorce that spring, amid extensive reports that the Hollywood hunk had his eye on Angelina the whole time.
Jolie said she has only briefly met Aniston and would gladly sit down with her - but only if the Friends star asked to do so.
“I did [once meet Aniston], but it was not a proper meeting. We've, like, passed each other and said 'hi' briefly, shook hands. But not a real sit-down-and-talk kind of meeting,” Jolie said. “That would be her decision [for a long sit-down], and I would welcome it.”
Jolie has made it clear that she doesn't have any intentions to marry Pitt, but they're committed to raising their boy and two girls and hope to adopt again in the future. She gave birth to their daughter, Shiloh, earlier this year, after adopting Maddox from Cambodia in 2002 and taking in Zahara from Ethiopia in 2005.
“We both have been married before, so it's not marriage that's necessarily kept some people together. We are legally bound to our children, not to each other, and I think that's the most important thing,” she said.
The actress, once married to Hollywood bad-boy Billy Bob Thornton, conceded that she once lived life too close to the edge, but this immediately transformed when she had children.
“I'm committed to the future now,” Jolie said. “I'm committed to life. I think definitely before my son, I was a little nihilistic. But once I
adopted Mad [Maddox], I knew I was never going to be intentionally
self-destructive again. I'm starting to be able to see being 50 years old with the kids graduating from high school.”
We will soon see Angelina in the Robert De Niro spy thriller, The Good Shepherd, starring alongside Matt Damon. The movie premiered at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York this week, and she and Pitt immediately stole the show as soon as they hit the red carpet.
Jolie's next big film will be portraying the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart. It was a role that Aniston had once said she would "love" to play.
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