Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's children may have practically been born in the spotlight, but don't necessarily expect them to follow in their parents footsteps.
The Maria actress and humanitarian was with the Bullet Train actor from 2005 until 2016, and together they share kids Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 16.
But despite their parents' legacies in Hollywood, and though some have expressed an interest in working in the industry, the Oscar winner has maintained that they aren't such fans of the spotlight after all.
Speaking with E! News at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria in Los Angeles about whether any of the six would be following in their parents' footsteps, Angelina revealed: "No, I think they're especially shy, very private people," and emphasized: "They want to be private."
Of the former couple's kids, though they are all largely private, Shiloh and Know are maybe the most to keep away from the public eye.
Maddox and Pax have both expressed an interest in working in the film industry, and have worked on some of their mother's projects, while their sister Zahara is currently busy as a student at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia, and most recently, Vivienne spent some months working with her mom on the Tony-winning musical adaptation of The Outsiders.
© Joy MaloneFor their work on the musical, Vivienne made a slew of public appearances with her mom, and Angelina in turn has opened up about how transformative the experience was.
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Speaking with Deadline in June, and recalling when she and Vivienne first saw the show last year, she said: "Really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her."
© Getty"It was a very different experience of understanding," she noted. "How this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she's communicating something to me, and that is the power of this material, which was in really good shape even by then."
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© Robin Marchant"And then I had the privilege of watching everyone work over this last year to make it into what it is, and Vivienne has been there the whole way."
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© GettyAlso asked what about a book from the 60s and a movie from the 80s resonated with Vivienne, who was born in 2008, Angelina shared that though "it's hard to speak for her, because she's a complex young woman," she thinks that the material is "very deep, and it's honest, and it doesn't shy away from real feelings and real discussion and real pain."
She added: "I think maybe every person that watches it might identify slightly more with one character or another, right, but what I think you see through it all is there is pain in life, right?"
