Angelina Jolie says Maddox and Pax love to eat crickets
My patron saint, Angelina Jolie, returned to Cambodia - Maddox's birth country - for a Louis Vuitton photo shoot by Annie Leibovitz. In this preview video, Angelina talks about her experience in Cambodia. The best part is when she talks about the crickets.
Maddox and Pax love to eat crickets! Angelina ate some too and might consider the "spider on the stick" as well if she can get past the fur.
From Yahoo:
"The biggest thing actually -- to be honest -- here in Cambodia is my boys love to eat crickets. It's their favorite thing. ... When I first gave it to them, I thought -- I wanted them to understand. Culturally, I wanted them not to be turned off by something that was of their culture. So I bought it and ... they ate them like Doritos, and they wouldn't stop. And they brought to-go boxes home, and I had to actually ban the cricket-eating at a certain point because I was afraid they were gonna get sick from eating too many."But seriously, how do they taste?
"They're good! They are like potato chips," Jolie adds. "We've had 'the beetle.' They call it a cockroach, I think it's more like a beetle. I have yet to have the tarantulas on a stick or spider soup here. It does seem like an odd thing to eat -- no, it does! I don't know if I can get around the fur, but" -- she says, with a knowing smile -- "you gotta try everything."
From YouTube:
An interview with Jolie that will be posted later in the month. In it, she is expected to discuss how her visit to Cambodia was a life-changing experience, awakening her to the plight of Third World countries. She adopted her eldest son, Maddox, from Cambodia and she and Brad Pitt established the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which is active in community development and conservation in the country.She's barefoot, wearing her own clothes, no makeup and toting her own elegantly weathered monogrammed Alto bag. Yet Angelina Jolie looks radiant and completely in her element, reclining on a wooden boat in a verdant, lakeside landscape in Cambodia's Siem Reap province. Jolie discovered the country in 2000 when she filmed "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," and it sparked her humanitarian activism.
She's the latest celebrity to pose for Louis Vuitton's popular "Core Values" campaign — and surely the only one who brought four children to the photo shoot, some of whom had to be shooed out of Annie Leibovitz's frame.
Core Values celebrates Vuitton's timeless classics in real situations on 'real' people - meaning celebrities rather than models - and runs alongside their seasonal 'fashion' campaigns.
The campaign is expected to run for at least 18 months and will also feature a video interview with Jolie filmed on location later in the month.
Photo By Annie Leibovitz