It was a family affair for Angelina Jolie at the New York premiere of her latest movie Sunday.
The Oscar winner attended the New York Film Festival with three of her six children — Pax Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Jolie-Pitt and Maddox Jolie-Pitt — for a screening of “Maria” at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall.
“You know, before you get out in these things, you’re as nervous,” she told Extra about having her kids show up to support her. “They just said, ‘No matter what, Mom, good luck and we know how hard you work and we love you.’ You know, you just have that moment where the people who are with you tell you, succeed or fail, they care about you.”
Jolie and the kids’ father, Brad Pitt, have been involved in a years-long divorce battle.
The family endured a medical emergency in July when Pax, 20, suffered a head injury in an e-bike accident.
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Jolie and her son Pax were spotted in the East Village on Sunday. (Getty)
After his ICU hospitalization, a source said he had a brain bleed and had a long recovery ahead of him but he appeared to be in good health at the premiere.
In 2007, Jolie adopted him from an orphanage outside Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City. Pitt formally adopted him a year later.
For her latest role, the 49-year-old recent Tony Award winner plays influential opera singer Maria Callas. Directed and produced by Pablo Larraín, the historical drama also stars Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stephen Ashfield and Valeria Golino.
Before the screening, Jolie told the audience: “I’m so happy to be here tonight. And I’m so happy to share this stage with these extremely talented, wonderful people and my dear friends. I hope you see in this film how much we really care for the people whose lives we’re sharing with you and how much they also loved art.”
“Maria” — which had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival — will be released in movie theaters Nov. 27 before streaming exclusively on Netflix starting on Dec. 11.
