In the '90s and early aughts, Angelina Jolie was pumping out multiple films a year. She became a fixture in pop culture with the portrayals of characters like the unconquerable Lara Croft and villainous Maleficent. Then, Jolie's love life eclipsed her career. The multihyphenate's divorce from Brad Pitt has likely accrued more headlines than any of her films from the last decade. What became tabloid fodder was a brutal life change for Jolie and her family, which she explains is the reason she needed to step back from Hollywood.

"We had to heal," she told WSJ of her family in December 2023. "There are things we needed to heal from." Jolie and Pitt, who share six children, filed for their contentious divorce in 2016, and it wasn't finalized until 2024 . In those eight years, Jolie was

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