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Angelina Jolie Says Hollywood Is 'Sometimes Not a Healthy Business': 'It's Not the Easiest Place'

Angelina Jolie said at the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival that Hollywood is 'sometimes not a healthy business' and 'not the easiest place.'

During a conversation with Variety's Clayton Davis at the 36th Palm Springs International Film Festival on Friday, Jan. 3, the Maria actress said she will "often stress that it’s really important to live a very full life" when she meets "young artists who ask me for advice." Jolie, who was honored with the festival's Desert Palm Achievement Award on Friday at the Palm Springs Convention Center, also addressed during the conversation with Davis the fact that she "had never sung" before being cast as opera legend Maria Callas in director Pablo Larraín ’s biopic. Asked which "close friend" she'd be calling in the early hours of the morning, the actress and mother of six responded, "I don’t really have those kinds of relationships.

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