Angelina Jolie's late mother used to keep her movies on the television all the time

During an interview, Angelina Jolie shared that her late mother Marcheline Bertrand used to keep her movies on the television all the time just to hear her voice in the house.

Then she said, "Isn’t that sweet? Only the nice ones, though – 'Maria' would have made her too sad. I don’t think she’d like to see me die." 

As for Jolie, she never thought she could be anyone's mom. She wrote on Time's Parents newsletter in 2020, "I was not a very stable youth. In fact, I never thought I could be anyone’s mom".

"I remember the decision to become a parent. It wasn’t hard to love. It wasn’t hard to dedicate myself to someone and something greater than my life."

"What was hard was knowing that from now on I needed to be the one to make sure everything was okay. To manage it and make it work. From food to school to medical. Whatever would come. And to be patient. I realized I stopped my constant daydreaming, instead staying always ready for any break into what I was doing or thinking to answer a need. It was a new skill to acquire."