Her years as a Hollywood bad girl are well behind her, but Angelina Jolie still has a taste for danger it seems.
The actress and her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren happily munched on tarantulas and scorpions while sampling the local delicacies during a recent trip to Cambodia.
The actress was in the Southeast Asian country to promote her new film, First They Killed My Father, where she did an exclusive interview with BBC News.
After opening up about her painful split from Brad Pitt, 53, the actress taught the BBC reporter about local cuisine and how to prepare some of the insects that are eaten in the country.
Eating spiders! Angelina Jolie took some time to showcase some of Cambodia’s local cuisine, including scorpions and tarantulas during an interview with the BBC
The clip, posted to the BBC News Twitter account beings with Angelina, surrounded by Vivienne and Knox, taking out the teeth of a spider
The clip, posted to the BBC News Twitter account beings with Angelina, surrounded by some of her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, taking out the teeth of a spider.
‘I think it’s always been a part of the diet, the bugs,’ she explained. ‘But I think there is a truth to the survival during the war of course.’
She continued with a history lesson: ‘When people were being starved they were able to survive on things like this and they did.’
She was then asked when she first had the bugs and replied she first had then when she first visited the country.
The actress adopted her oldest son Maddox from the Cambodia in 2002.
They all eat it! The mom-of-six cooked the insects alongside Vivienne who was brave enough to pick up the cooked spider
The actress and activist then went on to explain how you acquire a taste for the native cuisine.
‘Crickets, you start with crickets,’ she informed the BBC reporter. ‘Crickets and a beer and then you kind of move up to tarantulas.’
The mom-of-six is clearly making sure her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren also have an appreciation for the local food.
Sharing! The actress offered the fruits of her labor to her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, Shiloh (front), Maddox (left), and Pax (middle)
She had her youngest 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, twins Vivienne and Knox help her prepare the bugs with Vivienne bravely picking up the spiders and putting them in the bowl.
They were then frying up a bunch of scorpions and putting them in various bowls for both the locals and Angelina’s brood to enjoy.
Daughter Shiloh took a hot spider from the bowl of various insects and chomped down on the crunchy body.
Yummy? Shiloh tried a spider her mother made as she was asked if it was too hot to eat
The camera then panned up to Angelina doing the same thing as she clearly enjoyed the crispy tentacles.
‘It’s actually really good, the flavor,’ she explained after testing out her cooking.
Angelina seemed to be enjoying her time with her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, but took some time to reflect on her tough year and the ‘difficult’ breakup of her marriage to Brad Pitt as well as the effect it has had on their six 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren.
‘I don’t want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and we are a family, and we will always be a family,’ she said, visibly emotional.
Emotional interview: Angelina spoke out publicly for the first time about her split from Brad Pitt telling the BBC: ‘It was a very difficult time…. and we will always be a family’
‘It was very difficult,’ the actress added. ‘Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time.’
A bitter custody battle initially played out in the media after Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last September and sought full custody of their 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren following an alleged incident on board a private jet as the family returned to Los Angeles from France.
But the celebrity couple eventually reached an agreement in early January to seal the custody documents as they endeavor to resolve their issues and reach a divorce settlement.
‘My focus is my 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, our 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren,’ she explained to the BBC.
‘We are and forever will be a family and so that is how I am coping. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer,’ she said.
‘Many people find themselves in this situation. My whole family have all been through a difficult time,’ the actress, 41, said about the weeks since she filed for divorce in September
Family affair: Jolie brought along her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with Pitt to her film premiere in Cambodia – pictured Saturday with Maddox, Pax, Zahara and Shiloh.
Focused: Jolie, with Vivienne and Knox, eight, Maddox and Pax on Sunday, said: ‘I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer
A family affair: Angelina was accompanied by daughter Shiloh at the Cambodian premiere of her film First They Killed My Father
Special occasion: It was a very special occasion for the actress and director
On Saturday, Jolie made her first official appearance in Siem Reap, Cambodia, for the premiere of First They Killed My Father, about life in Cambodia under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge as seen through the eyes of a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥.
She was joined by her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10 and eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Maddox was adopted in 2002 from an orphanage in Cambodia, where Jolie filmed the Tomb Raider movie.
Full circle: Asked where she sees herself in five years time, she said she hopes to be ‘traveling around the world visiting my 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren’ and hoping they’re ‘doing really interesting things’
Big honor: Jolie and all six of her kids including eight-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne (far left) attended an audience with Cambodian King Norodom Sihamoni
She acknowledged that in a way she has come full circle since first traveling to Cambodia 17 years ago for Tomb Raider and where she first became a mother with the adoption of her oldest son.
She went on to adopt Zahara from Ethiopia and Pax from Vietnam.
She also gave 𝐛𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐡 to three biological 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with Pitt – Shiloh, who was 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in Namibia, and Vivienne and Knox who were 𝐛𝐨𝐫𝐧 in France.
Split: Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt last September and the former couple are in the midst of a custody battle over their 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren
Jolie has embraced a role as a humanitarian and UNICEF ambassador traveling to visit refugees and touring some of the most impoverished areas of the globe.
She has often taken one or more of her 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren with her.
Asked where she sees herself being in five years time, she replied: ‘I would like to be traveling around the world visiting my 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren, hoping that they’re just happy and doing really interesting things and I imagine in many different parts of the world and I’ll be supporting them.’
She added: ‘Everything I do I hope … I represent the right things to my 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥ren and give them the right sense of what they’re capable of and the world as it should be seen. Not through the prism of Hollywood or through a certain kind of life but really take them into the world where they have a really good sense and become rounded people.’
New movie: Jolie’s movie First They Killed My Father details life under Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge as seen through the eyes of a 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥 and will be released on Netflix later this year
Source: dailymail
