Summary
Veteran screen star JON VOIGHT may approve of his daughter Angelina Jolie's new leading man, Brad Pitt, but can't tell her so. Since he revealed her most intimate problems in public, she won't speak to him. Here he tells LINA DAS why his dearest wish is to walk her down the aisle
As casting decisions go, it seemed a pretty unlikely one. Jon Voight, the star of such gritty films as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance is playing none other than Pope John Paul II in a TV film of the late Pontiff. 'In truth,' says Voight, 'the Pope and I had quite a few similarities. He was Polish and I have Slavic blood, so there is some physical similarity.See the full content of this document
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Why Jon's Far From Jolie
'I listened to his voice and there were similarities there, too, and then I listened to what he was saying and I liked it. He was a poet and his words were always well-considered, so I thought to myself, "I'm the fellow to do this." I also heard that at one point he wanted me to play him.' Voight smiles his trademark boyish smile, understandably pleased. 'Although which of my films he saw probably doesn't bear thinking about.' For a man whose career has always been unpredictable, his latest role as the Pontiff shouldn't come as that much of a surprise. Ranked alongside Robert De Niro, Al Pa...
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