Angelina Jolie is a gold (fish) digger in latest film

Oscar winner Angelina Jolie is one of Hollywood’s most sought after and versatile actresses. And in her latest film "Shark Tale," she's pulling out all the stops and making some serious waves. “Today” entertainment reporter Jill Rappaport talks with Jolie about her latest role and how motherhood has changed her life.

Jill Rappaport: “Lola is quite the bad fish.”

Angelina Jolie: “She's the kind of woman I would never play in the flesh.”

Rappaport: “Why?”

Jolie: “Because she's a really – she's a gold digger and she's a really bad woman.  She represents everything that is wrong with women.”

Bad babe she is. In the animated adventure "Shark Tale," Angelina Jolie puts her best voice forward as a sensuous dragon fish that uses her feminine wiles to get what she wants.

Rappaport: “Did you try to sound sexier, because she's very provocative, this little fish?”

Jolie: “She's my bedroom voice.”

Rappaport:  “Oooh, let's hear.”

Jolie: “I don't. (Laughter) She's just. I have to be motivated.”

Rappaport: “Okay, well, I guess we can't go there. I'm the wrong one to do that.”

Jolie: “She's just … slow and deep and the way she talks.  Everything is just … naughty on her mind.”

Rappaport: “Considering the roles you've played in the past, and certainly the one you won the Oscar for, this is such a departure.”

Jolie: “Yeah, well I think … because I have a kid … I've spent the last few years making voices, making faces, being silly …”

Rappaport: “So, it definitely…”

Jolie: “…dressing up.”

Rappaport: “Definitely your son, Maddox …”

Jolie: “So this is …”

Rappaport: “…motivated you.”

Jolie:  “Yeah, this is … what parents do when nobody's looking. We are animated fish at home for our children.”

Rappaport: “I've interviewed you several times over the years, going back to ‘Gia.’  And I'll tell you something, I've seen such a change in you…”

Jolie: “Yeah.”

Rappaport: “… since Maddox has come into your life.”  

Jolie: “Thank you.”

Rappaport: “He really is your whole life now, isn't he?”

Jolie: “He's everything, yeah.  He's my happiness.”

Rappaport: “And I understand you may want to adopt or you're planning to adopt children from other countries.”

Jolie: “Oh,

‘I'm sure I'll adopt many more. I don't know when yet. I have a kind of dream or belief that a beautiful family ... from around the world.’ — Angelina Jolie Talking about adoption

I'm sure I'll adopt many more. I don't know when yet. I have a kind of dream or belief that a beautiful family ... from around the world.’

Rappaport: “I've read that you said that ultimately you'd like to just give up this whole career and the fact that you've chosen to move to London, away from the whole Hollywood limelight.”

Jolie: “It's been really good for me. It's important. I grew up in this town and this town can just be very all consuming. You know success or failure, or whatever it is, you're just very aware of celebrity. When I was first in this business … I went to a very dark place.”

Rappaport: “You were always in the tabloids.”       

Jolie: “Yeah, always lived in the tabloids.”

Rappaport: “Not as much now.”

Jolie: “Not as much now. However, I'm always dating some random person. There's like a joke in my house of like which … my sex life is so interesting and every other week I've got a new lover.”

Rappaport: “So none of it's true?  Don't believe what you read.”

Jolie:  “Sure there's one or two that are true.  But … I haven't read enough of them to tell you which ones.  But most of them are not true.”

Rappaport: “Oh, (laughter) care to share. Oh come on, elaborate. You can't wrap me now.  I see her wrapping me. You're not going now.”

Jolie:  “Sorry.” (Laughter)

Rappaport: “Yeah, I know, we hear that. (Laughter) But does it bother you – the tabloids?”

Jolie: “It only bothers me when it's a certain kind of story.  Like sometimes there's a story where it undermined some other relationship I had.  It just bothers me because … my parents were in this business when my father cheated on my mother. She had to deal with tabloids. I know how much it hurt her.”

Rappaport: “But you seem very happy with the way things are going in your life.”

Jolie:  “I feel very lucky.  I've survived some different things in my life and I've found a place to be useful – as a mother and working with the UN. I just took three months off and I traveled with the UN to Chad – to deal with the situation.”

Rappaport: “That part of your life is just as important, if not, more important…”

Jolie: “Much more important to me.”

Rappaport:  “…than the whole acting thing for you at this point.”

Jolie: “Yeah, much more important.”                                       

Rappaport: “I just feel like I lead the most boring life talking to you.” 

Jolie: “Honestly … I need to learn how to make dinner for my son and sit home and sit still – that's probably my biggest lesson and probably the most valuable thing.  So when I get to that point I will have evolved properly.” 

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