Bought in 60 seconds: Angelina Jolie stuns London shoppers as she picks up some bargains for daughter Vivienne, 13, during unlikely appearance at packed Oxford Street branch of H&M
The high glamour of Hollywood was traded for the fast fashion of Oxford Street as Angelina Jolie made an unlikely appearance at a popular high street clothes shop on Tuesday.
The Gone In 60 Seconds actress was joined by daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, 13, for an impromptu visit to the central London branch of H&M, where they were surrounded by stunned shoppers.
With her instantly recognisable features concealed behind a precautionary face covering, Angelina, 46, browsed the budget rails for some affordable apparel while Vivienne remained by her side.
Fortunately Angelina, whose net worth is estimated to be $120million, had no cause to watch the purse strings as she paid for a range of items selected by her teenage daughter, her youngest biological child with ex Brad Pitt.
Vivienne looked relaxed in a casual white T-shirt and grey joggers, while her own face covering remained firmly in place as she followed her mother around the packed store.
Star-struck shoppers looked on as the celebrated actress draped a protective arm around Vivienne, who looked mildly startled by the attention their visit to the store inevitably generated.
She appeared to be taking a short break from her promotional commitments after arriving in London via Italy, where she attended the 16th Rome Film Festival premiere of her new film Eternals on Sunday evening.
Eternals is a 2021 Marvel film based on the fictional race of humanoids of the same name which appears in the American comic books.
The film sees the Eternals, an immortal alien race, come out of hiding for thousands of years to protect Earth from their evil counterparts, the Deviants.
The movie, which premiered in Los Angeles earlier this month and then in Rome on Sunday evening, stars Angelina as elite warrior Thena and Gemma as the character Sersi.
Earlier this month, Angelina said the diversity in the cast is ‘how it always should have been.’ The actress appears as part of a superhero ensemble featuring queer characters, people of colour and deaf actress Lauren Ridloff.
She told Variety: ‘What’s really quite stunning is that when we walked out all of us together, it didn’t feel like: “This is so new and cool,” it felt like: “This is how it always should have been.” Why did it take so long? It felt so right’.
She was asked why she feels it takes so long, and while she has ‘many things’ to say on the subject, she focused on the idea that people should watch the film without actually focusing on its ‘diversity.’ She added: ‘I could say many things, and I could go on for a while, but I think…it is so good to just bust a hole right in that…’
The star argued: ‘What I hope is that when people watch this film, they’re not seeing it and saying: “Oh, this is a film about diversity. This is a film that shows this person can be a superhero.” ‘They’ll just say: “Well of course that person’s a superhero, and of course that person also is. Of course.”‘
