Dear Gwyneth Paltrow: full-length capes are for peasants. Real elites wear caplets.

Here are some photos of my girlfriend Angelina Jolie at last night’s UK premiere of Unbroken. No Brad Pitt. Angelina seemed to go solo for the premiere, although she did pose with Jack O’Connell. I get the feeling that their relationship is… respectful yet flirtatious. Sexy, but slightly buttoned up. Like, she could eat him alive and he would enjoy it but so far it’s just about some lingering looks and casual affection. Angelina also invited lots of soldiers and veterans to the premiere, and she posed with them on the red carpet. Oh, and Miyavi was there too! He’s the best dressed man on this carpet.

As for Angelina’s look… a Ralph & Russo white dress with a caplet. You can see the runway look here – it’s been altered for Angelina, obviously. No embroidery on the caplet and the waist is slightly different. I like this look, I think it’s pretty and interesting and all of that. But since it’s Angelina, I tend to think she was drawn to it because the caplet made her think of her beloved sacks. It’s like she’s wearing half a sack as a cape!!! Also: I think her hair looks great, I like the yellow gold earrings and her bejeweled red poppy (for veterans).

Angelina did a sit-down interview with Britain’s ITV News at Ten, which aired yesterday. She was asked point-blank if she would enter politics and she said she would “if I felt like I could really make a difference.” You can see part of the interview here. Some highlights:

On Pres. Obama’s handling of the Syria crisis: “I’m not here to criticize or pass judgment on a particular leader, including my own President, but I will say that we have overall a failing of international leadership when we have 51 million people displaced from conflict. More people displaced than since after World War II, when we have completely open-ended conflicts, when we have crises like Syria. We seem to be completely unable to handle it and make ground and help all of the people who are starving and dying at the moment – and Syria is just one of many.”

The UN & other organizations need to do more: “I think it’s important not to discount the good work being done but I think clearly, if you look around the world you can say we are simply not doing enough. When something happens our ability to respond and our ability to deal with it is far too little and far too late.”

Her UN work: “I’ve always gone wherever I felt I was needed. When I started working with the UN, I felt I loved working in the field and I felt I was useful in the field and then there was a point where I realised that I was only so useful in the field because someone had to go to Washington and plea the case.”

The worst part about being married to Brad? “Oh, there’s nothing. He’s really a great person. He’s human, I’m human but where it counts, he’s a great man.”

Whether she wants to see a woman president: “I think a great leader is a great leader and I simply would not ever say that this would be better because it’s a man or better because it’s a woman. What we really need now is great leadership and I’m hoping that person rises forward.”

On Hillary Clinton: “I think just because she’s a woman you shouldn’t assume she’s the best voice for women but just like every other voter, I will watch to see what the platform is.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Ha, I’ve always said that Angelina is probably a lot more conservative politically than people realize. But she always plays her personal political beliefs very close to the vest – she has NEVER gone on the record about party politics, the Tea Party, which party she identifies with or anything like that. Angelina has met Hillary once or twice, but several years ago, Clinton had to cancel an appearance with Angelina… probably because Hillary’s elbow was Team Aniston.

Photos courtesy of WENN.