Did you guys watch Angelina’s 60 Minutes interview last night? We previewed it last week, when 60 Minutes released what turns out to be the most idiotic clips from the interview. They pushed back 60 Minutes for a football game, but I did see it, and OMG it was the worst. Not Angelina – she was fine. She was candid, lucid, forth-right and interesting. The worst was the dude interviewing her, Bob Simon, who wasn’t capable of even a passing interest in researching his subject, and who seemed to think it was 2003. How many more questions is Angelina going to get about what she was like in 1998? Whenever Angelina opened up and said something newsworthy, it happened accidentally because Bob Simon wasn’t paying a bit of attention. He almost laughed at her when she got choked up talking about her mother. He actually made me miss certified-Brangeloonie Ann Curry and her sycophantic interview style. The worst part was when Bob Simon referenced Jolie’s work with the UNHCR “over the past few years,” basically denigrating and glossing over her work in lieu of asking her more questions about her drug usage 12 years ago – like she hasn’t been a UN ambassador for a decade, like she hasn’t been awarded for her work. Anyway, here’s the full video interview and some excerpts:

On her childhood dreams of being a funeral director: “It sounds like this very strange, eccentric, dark thing to do but in fact I lost my grandfather and was very upset with his funeral,” she said during an interview on 60 Minutes Sunday night. “How somebody passes and how family deals with this passing and what death is should be addressed in a different way. If this whole acting thing didn’t work out that was going to be my path.”

Always in Tabloids: Simon asked Jolie what people who only know her from tabloid covers are missing. “Me,” she said. “I don’t see those things. I don’t know who they are but I assume they’re not me. They’re not who I am. They’re not what I spend my day caring about. I find them quite shallow and often quite wrong.”

Working Mom: “We never work at the same time,” Jolie said of how she and Brad Pitt raise their six children. She also said she prefers “when I’m home with the kids” and that shooting movies full time “would be easier.”

Looking Up to Mom: “My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences … everything was for her children,” Jolie said of her mom, Marcheline Bertrand, as she choked up. “I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.”

Becoming a Director: “I still think it’s crazy … I think I’d be terrible with a comedy,” she says of tackling the tough topics in her film, a love story set during the Bosnian War in 1992. “Everything was something to be careful about and sensitive. I am nervous that people are not going to understand it,” she said, though she’s not worried about being involved with a film that has someone else as the star. “I prefer directing. I love having the spotlight on someone else … It’s nice for all of that not to matter.”

[Via People Magazine]

What’s also interesting is that 60 Minutes didn’t even air the two most interesting parts of the interview, leaving these as “web exclusives”. In the first clip, Angelina talks in more detail than ever before about her sketchy relationship with her sketchy father, and gives the specific timeline for their tenuous reconciliation:

And in this clip, Angelina talks more about how she doesn’t think she’ll have a career in 10-20 years. What’s interesting is that she talks about her mother dying young, and you get the feeling that Angelina thinks she’ll be going early too:

Screencaps from the 60 Minutes video.