When Angelina Jolie won an Oscar in 2000, she caused quite a stir. Due to her performance in Girl, Interrupted, she was awarded the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. However, her significant victory went largely unnoticed as talk turned to her notorious kiss with brother James Haven. She once clapped back at TV host Jay Leno for the offensive incest jokes; see details below.
Angie’s Oscar victory was a very touching and memorable occasion. In her acceptance speech, she gave her brother a thank-you. At the Vanity after-party, the siblings posed for the cameras, but when they planted a kiss on each other’s lips, heads turned to watch. The incident was overblown; some even went so far as to call it a “French kiss.”
The James Haven kiss incident “shocked” Angelina Jolie!
Angelina Jolie and James Haven provided an explanation for their private moment. The actress from Eternals was actually “shocked” to discover how exaggerated her “brotherly love” had become. However, when comedians started making jokes about it, things became ugly. And that also included TV host Jay Leno, who was accused of making multiple offensive remarks.
Angelina Jolie made a guest appearance on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show in June 2000. It happened soon after her marriage to her 20-year-old co-star Billy Bob Thornton from Pushing Tin. The TV host addressed reports that he had offended the famous couple with his offensive jokes. Giving it back, Angie remarked that his jokes were “really not funny.”
In response to Jay Leno’s incest jokes, Angelina Jolie claps back.
The moment of returning the clap then started. “I’ve been waiting for this,” declared Angelina Jolie. She took out a piece of paper that contained jokes about her kiss with her brother James Haven written by Jay Leno. “It’s just not OK when somebody says things about your family,” she continued. And my mother hasn’t been comfortable with the information about my brother and me. Please take a moment to read what you’ve said. She got sick when I highlighted the two that she truly valued.
“You know how Billy Bob knew Angelina was attracted to him?” was one of the jokes that Jay Leno read. because she claimed that he treated her like a brother. After a little silence, he asked, “Are those terrible?” to the audience.
The Tonight Show host defended himself by claiming that other people also find these jokes amusing. Jay shouldn’t jump on the bandwagon just because everyone else is, Angelina Jolie interjected. Rather, he ought to be making a statement.