We have SO many questions!
In a telling new interview, the platinum pop icon has revealed that she was originally in the running to play Angelina Jolie’s part of Jane Smith in the Hollywood blockbuster, Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Speaking on SiriusXM’s The Howard Stern Show on Wednesday, the 46-year-old confessed, “I feel like I almost got it. I went to a bunch [of auditions].”
Adding, “[It was] very competitive and I wanted to do it, but I wanted to do music more.”
The former No Doubt band member split from her husband of 13 years last year.
The Sweet Escape singer previously discussed her missed opportunity in a 2008 interview with Vogue magazine.
“It was between me and Angelina Jolie, and I’m like, ‘Oh, great. I got a shot here,'” she recalled.
“The whole acting thing really feels like something I could do. Whenever I’ve done it, whenever I had moments where it works, it’s just like performing. You hit a moment. And that’s what movies are: a series of moments.”
But alas, it wasn’t meant to be. As fans will know, the mother-of-two ultimately lost out to Angelina Jolie – as did actresses Nicole Kidman and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
We can’t help but wonder what would have been if Angelina wasn’t the one to land the role.
The 2005 film tells the story of a seemingly normal married couple, who have in fact been hired as assassins to take each other out.
Other than earning more than $630 million at the box office, the film famously brought Angelina together with her co-star, Brad Pitt, who later divorced his then-wife Jennifer Aniston.
Speaking to Vogue of the moment they realised they were more than co-stars, the mother-of-six said, “I think we were the last two people who were looking for a relationship. I certainly wasn’t.”
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“Because of the film, we ended up being brought together to do all these crazy things, and I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened.”
But the couple didn’t act upon their feelings straight away. “It took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realise that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe.”
“And both knowing that the reality of that was a big thing, something that was going to take a lot of serious consideration.”
While Jennifer has since found her blissful happiness with actor Justin Theroux, Brad and Ange have been together for over a decade, and share six children together.
“Married life is so normal and fun and not much different. We felt married for so long!” Jen quipped to Harper’s Bazaar.
