USA Today has an interview with Angelina Jolie that she gave while in Cannes in advance of the release of her film Wanted with James McEvoy. She talks about a lot of the same topics she’s covered in other interviews promoting the film, particularly a recent very candid interview with MTV News. She discusses doing action movies vs. more emotional cerebral films, making time for all her children and balancing work and home life, and her ideas on justice as it relates to the character she plays in the film. She also talks about the new temporary tattoos that were added for the movie that fit with the ones she already had.

On the addition of new tattoos to complement her current ones

There was another part of herself that she was able to include in Fox — her many tattoos. “Instead of taking mine away, which we have to do in every film, we ended up leaving mine and adding more.” Those temporary additions are on full display in one scene, where Fox emerges from a steaming bath and walks by stunned onlookers — again, not caring what they see.

“We tried to focus (the fake tattoos) on themes that would be related to this sense of justice. I have ‘Strength of Will’ in one language, and we added it in four other languages on my arm.” “Know Your Rights” is printed in English on the back of her neck, and again in Latin as well. “From Churchill’s speech ‘We have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat,’ I had ‘Toil’ and ‘Tears’ here and here,” she says, pointing to the undersides of her upper arms.

[From USA Today]

On action roles vs. more emotional, dramatic roles

Wanted, Jolie says, is her break from more earnest performances as the wife of slain journalist Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart, an isolated housewife in the CIA drama The Good Shepherd and the mother of a missing boy in Changeling, which comes out Oct. 24 and could fuel Oscar talk.

She was happy to get back to an over-the-top action flick. As her manager, Geyer Kosinski, put it: “It’s what people want to see her doing. She said, ‘At some point, I have to get back to (sex) and killing.’ ”

Jolie says: “I’ve been so lucky in my career that I’ve been able to do a kind of Mr. & Mrs. Smith thing that’s really cool, and I’m made up to be as pretty as I can be. But I can also do a film like Changeling or A Mighty Heart, where it’s removed from that.

On balancing her work and home life and getting help from Brad

She declined to confirm her due date, but she has very clear ideas about what the days and months leading up to the birth will be like.

“We’ve made a point to, both of us, not be working,” she says. “So we’ll be home together with the kids,” Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, who just turned 2.

“At the same time we’re expecting two, we have four, so my focus now is on the four we have. And these are some big times for them, big moments in their lives. So every day is just about making sure that their schooling is going right and their manners are intact and we’re disciplining properly and we’re spending enough time with them individually, so they seem special. That’s a lot of balance when you have a lot of children.”

As for how Pitt is handling it all, she says, “I’m very lucky — I’m with a man who makes me feel very sexy pregnant and loves children. In the last few months it’s hard for me to pick up the other kids, so he’s there to help lift them up to me and things like that. He’s an extremely hands-on dad with all the kids and really, really supportive. Any woman knows that when you’re pregnant, if you have a partner who is embracing it with you and excited with you, it makes all the difference. I’m very lucky to have him.”

Angelina said in this interview as well as her Entertainment Weekly interview that she cut a lot of lines for her character, an assassin who goes by the single name “Fox,” because she envisioned her as the strong silent type.

Apart from a report that Angelina had given birth which was discredited by several news outlets, there have been no new stories about Angelina in a couple of weeks. Brad went to a Radiohead concert with Ed Norton in Italy on Wednesday but Angelina has not been seen. There is speculation that Angelina has already given birth and that her camp tried to retract a hasty confirmation that her twins had been born, saying it was spread by someone posing as her assistant, in order to secure some much-needed privacy for the family. Other gossip outlets say she’s on bed rest until the twins are born. Paparazzi have stormed the small French town in which they’re staying on a 1,000 acre 35-bedroom leased estate, but so far no one has secured a photo of any members of the famous family.

Here are stills from Wanted, which is out in the US on June 27 and is getting very good advance reviews. Thanks to All Movie Photo for these pictures.