Who needs a director when you have six very opinionated – and honest – children?\nAngelina Jolie has revealed how her brood of six children became a regular fixture on set while she recorded her new animated movie Kung Fu Panda 2.
\nDescribing them as like a \u2018focus group\u2019 she said they became \u2018part agents, part managers\u2019.
\nAnd they certainly didn\u2019t hold back when it came to expressing their opinions.
\nJolie told USA Today: \u2018They\u2019ll sit in a room and say, \u201cThat\u2019s just not funny,\u201d\u2019 admitting the scrutiny from her children keeps her \u2018competitive\u2019.
\nThe 35-year-old actress, who voices kung fu master Tigress, has six children with partner Brad Pitt – Maddox, aged nine, Pax, aged seven, Zahara, aged six, four-year-old Shiloh and two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. The elder three are adopted.
\nBut despite their brutal honesty – and thinking co-star Jack Black was \u2018cooler than mommy\u2019 – Angelina says bringing them along to recording sessions was very rewarding.
\n\u2018We\u2019ve got kids of all ages so we joked that we had our own focus group.\u2019
\nAnd while she was prepared for them to get impatient watching her speak into a microphone, it actually worked out quite well.
\n\u2018When they\u2019re there and they hear you making kung fu sounds and jumping around, you can see them giggling through the glass it makes you go that much further.\u2019
\nHowever, Jolie did admit she had concerns regarding the adoption issues raised in the flick, especially when they visited the Dreamworks studios to see a rough cut of the movie.
\nKung Fu Panda, the original, was \u2018one of the kids\u2019 favourite movies,\u2019 Jolie said. And reinforcing how they inspired her during recording, she explained: \u2018If you look at your own children, you want to do something you know will be better than the first one.\u2019
\nHowever, the Oscar-winning actress conceded that she did have hang-ups about the sound of her voice.
\nWhile she would usually have her brooding good looks and presence to light up the screen, animation is clearly different.
\nJolie told the publication she hates the sound of her own voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"