Here are some highlights from the interview:
On her role as a mother in Changeling:
"I wasn't old enough to play the mom [before]. And I don't think I really knew what it was to be a mom until these last few years. Especially the mom of an older son. It's one thing playing the mom of a new baby, but my relationship with Maddox was very much on my mind and I just couldn't shake the thought of him through the whole film. He's the one that I talk to the way I talk to the little boy in the movie. So I see the movie and Brad sees it and [we recognize] things in it — even just little things. The boy says, ''Am I too heavy?'' Mad says that all the time. ''Am I too heavy?'' ''Oh, never! One day you're going to carry me!''"
On how she decides which films to do:
"I'm terrible at reading scripts. I love to read and I hate reading scripts. Brad reads a lot because he's also producing. We're always joking about the fact that I just hate it. I have no patience. I can't watch movies either. What usually will happen is I'll talk to Geyer [her longtime manager] about what stage I'm at in my life and what type of a woman or story I'm looking to tell. Like with Wanted, I call and say, ''I really feel like I have to do something that's physical right now.'' Right now I don't want to work at all. I want to stay home, so the few things we've talked about are the amazing, once-in-your-lifetime things, like Atlas Shrugged. But other than that, I'm not looking."
On being a polarizing figure:
"I'd like to think it's because I'm not neither here nor there in my life. I think anybody that makes a decision about where they stand is going to cause strong opinions about them. But I think that's what you should be hoping for in life, so I take that as a very good sign. That some people support me and some people really don't like me tells me that I'm making decisions and I'm standing strong for something I believe in. I'm making choices in life. And that's the right thing to do."
On opening up about her past:
“To admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things, I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.”
On her mother:
“When Brad saw Changeling he said he could see my mother. That was very much my mother. Hated yelling at people, really was so decent and so sweet, but when it came to protecting her children, she somehow found this odd strength. There’s an elegance to her that I don’t really have; there’s a kindness.”
On her relationship with Brad Pitt:
“We joke about the extremes of the things we’ll do. Well, certain things are private! But there’s a side of us that’s so mommy-daddy and then there’s a side of us that’s…very man and woman. I’ll leave it at that. We both like to ride motorcycles, we both like to fly planes, that’s the spirited side of us. Then the other side of us is very focused on silly mommy-daddy things. So I guess that’s extremes, but I just think of that as balance.”
On the best and worst things about being pregnant:
“It’s all just so nice. You just really can’t complain about anything as long as you know the babies are looking healthy. The only thing that’s hard for me now is with twins and having four kids, there’s a lot of the doctor saying ”Stop picking them up as much.” But we’ve worked out a system where Brad just lifts them to me every time they want to come up. I just don’t bend down. I’ll scream, ”Honey!” and he’ll come running and lift them up. Or they climb on chairs, so it’s not as big of a lift. So we’re trying to follow doctor’s orders, but I’m bending them a tiny bit.”
On pregnancy being good for the sex life:
“I think it's quite the opposite. It’s great for the sex life. It just makes you a lot more creative. So you have fun, and as a woman you’re just so round and full.”
On having six kids under the age of eight:
“Well, we weren’t expecting twins! So it did shock us, and we jumped to six quickly. But we like a challenge. We really don’t know. His mom and dad are on standby to come out and help. And fortunately we can hire help if we need it, but we’re going to try as we usually do to balance it as well as we can. The only thing for us when a new child comes home is just balancing the others. Our real focus now is: How do we make sure that the babies’ coming is not upsetting to other kids and makes them feel included. They’re old enough to feel included to change diapers themselves, to feed bottles themselves, like if I pump into a bottle. We’re trying to find ways where it can be a fun group thing. But the hard thing is every single day trying to find time for each of them privately. ‘Cause that’s our big thing. With our eldest, we have that last half an hour at night; Shiloh tends to be the first up in the morning. Everybody gets special time so we can make sure we know where they’re at.”
On Jack Black’s revealing that they were having twins:
“Poor Jack! Immediately when he saw Brad, he apologized. But we both told him very clearly that we had only waited because, as you do with any baby, but especially twins, you wait until all results are in on their health, and that we were past that point and if somebody had asked me directly, I would have said yes. So he didn’t do anything but take the heat himself.”
On what term they use to describe themselves as a couple:
“We have that problem all the time. I say ”partner” sometimes. ”Father of my children” is too long. But half the time people refer to us as, ”So, your wife this, your husband that.” We’ve stopped correcting everybody. It’s not a big intentional thing not to marry. We immediately were a family when we became a couple, and children were the priority, and we’re both legally committed to the children. And that seemed to be the right thing.”
On her ideal family day:
“I have a lot of those. Very simple things. On weekends we usually have family sleep. We always have one night a week where everybody stays up late, watches a movie, and stays in our bed. We have, like, a slumber party. It's funny. The boys tend to want to be near Mommy and the girls tend to want to be near Daddy. So it works out nicely.”
Source: Entertainment Weekly
She looks completely lovely in the pics and I can't wait for the movie. Also, it was a great interview. Thank you. She looks like Hilary Duffs sister Haylie Duff in the mag pics. She's stunning. xoxo
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