Angelina Jolie thought Tomb Raider character was about brawn and bre*sts before accepting the role

Angelina Jolie was a bit skeptical before accepted the role for Lara Croft. She explained,  "I thought it was the craziest thing I ever heard. I mean, I was flattered, but I thought it was ridiculous. I don't like video games. My ex husband (Trainspotting(1996)'s Jonny Lee Miller) used to play 'Tomb Raider. ' I would walk by him and say, 'Oh, look at her bre*asts. '"

"But then I met with the director and he told me it wouldn't be campy or stupid. I realized it was a real movie with a solid character."

It wasn't easy for her to build muscle. She explained, "Getting some solid muscle mass wasn't easy".

"It was two and a half months of tough training. I had just wrapped a period piece (August's Original Sin (2000)) and I was drinking wine and smoking cigarettes and having a great time."

"Then I got to the 'Tomb Raider' set and the great adventure began. They had me on bunjis. I'm dog sledding. They had me up at seven each morning and handed me a protein shake. Suddenly, a nutritionist was giving me five meals a day." 

"But you had to do these things to maintain your energy. And I liked the intense training because there is only one way to do something and for me it's in extremes."

Angelina Jolie's natural hair color is dark blonde. Why did she dye to dark brown for so many years?

Angelina Jolie's natural hair color is dark blonde. Her mother dye her hair when she was small. 

She explained, "My natural color is dark blonde. But when I was 4 or 5, my mother dyed my hair dark brown, and she decided to keep it that way. And I stuck with that".

Jolie claims her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand didn't like the light color on her, so she turned to dye.

Angelina Jolie loves starring in movie Salt because it stopped her feeling soft after the birth of her twins

Angelina Jolie's 2010 movie Salt was originally written for Tom Cruise where he supposed to play as CIA agent name Edwin Salt and was wanted after being accused of being a Russian spy. Tom rejected it because he felt the character was almost like Mission: Impossible's Ethan Hunt.

Then Angelina Jolie took the role as Evelyn Salt. She enjoys being on the set and it stopped her from feeling soft after gave birth to her twins, Knox and Vivienne in July 2008.

She said, "It was difficult to switch to being an action hero for a minute. But it was so nice to have an excuse to get out of bed and get back in action and not feel so soft with the pregnancy and all that comes with it after."

"I did have a moment where I found myself thinking, 'I am somebody's mom, I don't belong here. I was on the freeway with somebody chasing me and two weeks before I was at home feeding the babies. I felt like, 'Oh, they've got the wrong person.'"

Jolie refused to return for the sequel however.

The One Show host Alex Jones dumped her ex Steve Jones after he stole her gig with Angelina Jolie

The One Show host Alex Jones dumped her ex Steve Jones after he stole her gig with Angelina Jolie.

During a discussion with Dish podcast hosts Nick Grimshaw and Angela Hartnett on Monday, she shared her previous personal thing.

She shared, "Normally they would call in the morning and ask to come and do an interview or a junket".

"I was staying in his flat at the time when I was working in London and he picked up the landline and said "Al's not here. She's not feeling well, she's had to go back to Cardiff", I was in Topshop."

"So he did the interview".

"And so I got back to the flat and was like, where is he? Hours went past, nobody answering their phones and in the end thought, right I'm going to drive back to Cardiff, because I don't know where you are, you've probably gone to the pub".

"And then the production company called, and they were like, we've got bit of a situation. Tomorrow morning your boyfriend is going to the premiere with Angelina Jolie and it it would be really funny if you came on the line, live on the show and surprise him and said that you know exactly what he's been up to".

'So again, I said "ye"s, so on live telly I'm like," you lied to me, where have you been? So yeah, not surprisingly, we split up live on telly!".

After Steve's interview with Angelina Jolie, he got a presenting job on weekend show T4.

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Sandra Bullock's movie Gravity was originally written for Angelina Jolie

Sandra Bullock's movie Gravity was originally written for Angelina Jolie. Jolie didn't take the offer and was later offered to Scarlett Johansson, then Blake Lively and later Natalie Portman.

Sandra Bullock was later offered for the role and got nominated for Best Actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.. The movie was released in 2013. Gravity was written by the duo of Alfonso and Jonas Cuaron.