Watch Angelina Jolie and Kids Casually Snack on Tarantulas, If You Can Handle It
(Photo: Twitter / @BBCWorld)Having a hard time getting your kids to eat their peas and broccoli? [...]
Having a hard time getting your kids to eat their peas and broccoli? Try tarantulas and scorpions!
Angelina Jolie and her six children are spending time in Cambodia promoting her new movie First They Killed My Father, where Jolie sat down with BBC World News journalist Yalda Hakim.
Jolie discusses her movie, her recent divorce from Brad Pitt and, of course, spiders.
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"You want to share a spider?" - Angelina Jolie cooks bugs in Cambodia ?https://t.co/5mSi3VNErT pic.twitter.com/OZ12DjpyJD
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Jolie showed Hakim how she de-fangs and cooks the critters, sharing them with her six kids: Maddox, 15; Pax, 13; Zahara, 11; Shiloh, 10; and twins Knox and Vivienne, 8.
Jolie says the key to enjoying bugs is to build your way up to the scary ones.
"You start with crickets, crickets and a beer. And then you kind of move up to tarantulas."
In fact, Jolie even told Good Morning America that her kids eat crickets "like a bag of chips."
"They can eat a bag of crickets like a bag of chips," she said.
"They're used to eating scorpions," she said. "Especially Shiloh. Shiloh loves a tarantula, loves a bug."
Knox's reaction? "[It tastes like] dry chips. Yeah, like, flavorless chips."
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Jolie also talked with Hakim about her recent divorce, saying it has been a "difficult" time for the family.
"I don't want to say very much about that, except to say it was a very difficult time and... and we are a family and we will always be a family, and we will get through this time and hopefully be a stronger family for it," she said.
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The Maleficient actress revealed that she is coping with the divorce by focusing on her kids.
"Many, many people find themselves in this situation," she said. "My whole, my family... we've all been through a difficult time. My focus is my children, our children .. and my focus is finding this way through. We are and forever will be a family. I am coping with finding a way through to make sure that this somehow makes us stronger and closer."
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Jolie says her adopted Cambodian son Maddox was a huge inspiration for First They Killed My Father.
Directed by Jolie, the film tells the story of former refugee Cambodian Loung Un growing up in the country during a politically heated time.
"I wanted to focus not just on the war but on the love of family and on the beauty of the country and in fact I wanted to understand what my son's birth parents may have gone through," Jolie said.
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