Angelina Jolie is the cover girl for Entertainment Weekly’s Summer Preview issue. I don’t really get what she’s wearing – is this a sheet? A blouse? A dress? Some sort of special tattoo-revealing shroud? My favorite tattoo of Angelina’s in the lines of prayer on her shoulder. I don’t care for the “Know Your Rights” at the base of her neck, and I think the tiger on her lower back is too big. She’s on the cover because she’s got Salt coming out in July, so they seem to be ramping up interest a little early, but whatever. EW scored an interview with Angelina, and HuffPo has the excerpt:

Angelina shows off her back tattoos on the cover of Entertainment Weekly and inside talks about her family and her role as a CIA agent in this summer’s ‘Salt.’

“I had just had two babies, and the push to be physically strong was very welcomed at the time,” she said. “The funny thing about having children is that now I am twice as motivated to do a cool stunt because my kids will like it.”

Angelina also said she would like to do another movie with Brad Pitt at some point.

“I love working with him,” she said. “He’s my favorite actor to work with, and the only complicated thing is to find the right project.”

[From Huffington Post]

I kind of hope they don’t act together again, honestly. I realize that many don’t care for Mr. and Mrs. Smith, but I thought they were both good in it, and the lore for that film’s production is still being discussed and analyzed, six years later. Now, I think it would be cool if Brad produced a film starring Angelina, like he did with A Mighty Heart.

Let’s see… here’s another interview excerpt, Angelina on changing the gender of the lead character in the film, from Edwin to Evelyn Salt: “We tried to change the name to Edwina. but it didn’t quite have the same ring to it. I was simply looking for the best action script that was going around. Hopefully we’ve succeeded in making her more emotionally complex and physically meaner. We expect different things from men and from women, both emotionally and physically. For example, a man can have a character arc in which he discovers his heart at the end – that would never be a surprise for a woman.”

Now, some sources are attributing this quote to director Noyce, some to Angelina: “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who’s in danger. And what we found was when Evelyn Salt saved her husband in the new script, it seemed to castrate his character a little. So we had to change the nature of that relationship.”

Dude, were they just talking about castration? Hahaha… this should be a good thread!