True! I don’t I will anyone who knew her but I don’t believe the hype either, she was nasty and I think Christopher Hitchens was right about her. 

As someone with a parent who grew up knowing Mother Teresa, I can’t believe there are people out there who still buy Mother Teresa’s shtick. 

She’s not the great humanitarian you make her out to be. There are local people who work tirelessly in war-torn countries and those people actually help refugees (but of course nobody talks about them because they’r enot famous). Jolie doesn’t.

Yeah it’s really telling that she told that story to Vanity Fair without realizing that people were going to be disturbed by it. I think she has a massive god complex and there is also an element of white saviour in this story. It’s pretty interesting to see many posters on Jezebel giving her a pass on this mess.…

I feel like brand Jolie is starting to fade and her real personality is starting to come out. All that St. Angelina stuff was a facade anyway. She seems more calculating and manufactured now. How many times can we her and see talk about the same things over and over again? Orphans, visiting 3rd world countries, her…

Well the problem is that a lot of people decided she was that great humanitarian because what? Because she flew to Syria to shake hands with some refugees? Because she met with high-ranking officials and told them they should help refugees more? There are tons of people who dedicate their life to humanitarian causes…

Oh Brad’s a prick alright. I’ve never heard anyone who knows him say a good thing about him aside from looks and/or his ability to eat food seductively on camera.

I work in “those places.” “Raising awareness” does fuck-all. You’re clueless at best.

It sounds gross because these are children that have actually gone through hardships and she was exploiting that. Yes, they agreed to audition, but they did not go looking for this acting gig. It’s not like they were like “yeah, I’m gonna use this grief and turn it into art”. She made that decision for them.

This, this, this.

The Sony folks who do know her, kind of echo your exact sentiments.

You know for all that Stanley Kubrick could be terribly cruel to his actors, I do have to give him props for going out of his way to make sure that the kid in The Shining wasn’t traumatized. Like, he didn’t even know it was a horror movie until he was older.

This “pretend” improvisation audition would probably be acceptable if these kids were average kids who are actors; the fact that she went looking for the most destitute kids, recruited them, and then made them audition this way sounds fucking horrific. Fuck Angelina. I’ve always maintained she’s not changed; she just…

Not this bullshit again. Takes two to cheat on a wife. One of the two’s a husband, who never seems to get any of the blame/vitriol.

In her recent round of interviews, Angelina also discusses the “heartbreak of Bell’s Palsy”, which I had and it did not break my heart. When I had Lyme, it happened to me, and yes, it did interfere with my wine drinking for two or three weeks, and I also kept getting shampoo in one eye in the shower, but…

I think maybe you’re attaching too much significance to things like whether or not someone is a parent, or if they’re born rich or poor. Personally, I don’t think having kids, or being born rich or poor, has anything to do with a capacity for empathy. I mean, ideally, of course it would be great if people who have…

I joke about being an unrelenting, biased admirer of hers (prior to this article, which sobered me up), but my ardor was based on her smart insight and communication of the most miserable plights. I tried a million different ways to make that VF piece sound okay, and I couldn’t. This is almost a doubling down, in that…

I read the description exactly as Angelina is saying it happened, and so did most people I’ve seen on the internet. They admit the point was to see which (poor) kid had the strongest reaction to being presented with a pile of money and having it taken away. They picked the one who genuinely burst into tears at what…

Not really buying Angie’s version either. This is a woman who hangs out with dictators and had the Cambodian military regime working on the film with her.

The casting story kind of perfectly encapsulates the worst assumptions about Angelina Jolie’s global humanitarianism, and her response to the criticism doesn’t help matters.