Angelina Jolie’s next chapter could unfold far away from Hollywood.
Jolie waited for her twins, Vivian and Knox, to reach adulthood before deciding to move abroad, something she had been considering for years.
The “Eternals” star “didn’t want to live in L.A. full-time,” a source previously told People. “Because of her custody arrangement with Brad, she didn’t have a choice.”
Vivian and Knox are the youngest of six children and will turn 18 on July 12th.
“She has her sights set on several locations overseas,” the source added. “She would be very happy to be able to leave Los Angeles.”
Jolie’s decision to move abroad is rooted in one of her priorities: her children.
“When you have a big family, you want privacy, peace and security,” she told The Hollywood Reporter in 2024.
“I now have a home to raise my children in. But sometimes this place…the humanity I find all over the world can be different than the one I grew up with here.”
She further added, “I’m going to spend a lot of time in Cambodia. I’m going to spend time visiting my family everywhere in the world.”
Jolie has a history with Cambodia. The “Girl, Interrupted” actress adopted her first child, Maddox, from Cambodia in 2002.
“Cambodia was the country that made me realize about refugees,” she later said in an interview with Vogue India. “It allowed me to engage in diplomacy in a way I never had before, to join UNHCR, and most of all, it allowed me to be a mother.”
“In 2001, I was in the Samrut school program and I was playing blocks on the floor with a little kid, and that day I thought, ‘My son is here,'” she revealed. “A few months later I met baby Mad at the orphanage. I can’t explain it and I’m not one to believe in messages or superstitions, but it was so real and palpable.”
Jolie adopted two more children, Zahara and Pax, after her relationship with Pitt began. The “Fight Club” star later adopted all three children as his own.
Jolie has three biological children with Pitt: Shiloh, Vivian, and Knox.
The actress, now 50, said her decision to adopt a child was rooted in something deeply personal, rather than acting.
“When I was growing up, I wanted to adopt because I knew there were children without parents,” she previously told Vanity Fair in 2008. “It’s not a humanitarian thing because I don’t think of it as a sacrifice. It’s a gift. We’re lucky to have each other.”
“I look at Shiloh and obviously she looks like Brad and I when we were little, so I say, ‘If this were our brothers and sisters, how much would they have known at six years old that they would need to understand in their 30s and 40s?’ I think I’m giving them the childhood that I always wanted.”
Her international connections have long shaped how she views the world and, more recently, the United States. Jolie attended Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival in September and criticized the current situation in the United States.
“I love my country, but I don’t recognize my country at this point,” Jolie said during a panel discussion, according to Variety.
“I have always lived cosmopolitanly. My family is cosmopolitan, my friends are cosmopolitan, my life is cosmopolitan…my worldview is egalitarian, united and cosmopolitan. I think anything that separates or restricts individual expression and freedom from anyone anywhere is extremely dangerous.”
He added: “These are very serious times, so we have to be careful not to say things casually. These are very, very heavy times that we are all living through.”
Jolie has long been an outspoken critic of the United States, writing an op-ed for the New York Times in 2017 opposing President Donald Trump’s immigration ban.
At the time, Jolie stressed that she wanted the country to be safe, but argued that the policy would do more harm than good.
“We can manage the safety of people from all over the world, not even babies, who are deemed unsafe to visit our country because of geography or religion,” Jolie wrote.
