Jonnie Lee Miller has revealed the extreme lengths he went to in order to woo first wife Angelina Jolie.
The 51-year-old British actor, famed for roles in films such as Trainspotting and Afterglow, met the American actress, now 48, when they co-starred together in the 1995 cyber-thriller Hackers.
They exchanged vows in 1996 following a whirlwind romance, but the marriage was short-lived and the couple separated 18-months later. Their divorce was finalised in 2000.
Appearing on long-time friend Johnny Vaughan's Radio X drivetime show on Wednesday, Miller recalled how he jumped out of a plane to impress her while they were still dating.
“I was dating a young lady called Angelina and she said ‘let’s do something exciting this weekend’ and ‘why don’t we go to Hemet, it’s just outside of LA, and jump out of an airplane?’ I thought, ‘yeah of course sounds great!’ he told the broadcaster.
“She was cool as a cucumber, fearless that woman. And so, we did tandem jumps and I’m not going to lie, I found it terrifying but I did it anyway.”
Asked if he would do it again, he added: “No! I mean we actually did it three times, we did this programme where you do a bit more technical stuff each jump, and then we trained for a solo jump and then thank goodness it was too windy so we didn’t do the solo jump.”
The admission prompted Vaughan, who was presenting a regular drivetime item called The Things You Do For Love, to recall his own memory of Jolie and Miller's wild ways during a past trip to Central America. ‘
He said: “I remember when we were in Costa Rica together, I never told you how alarmed I was at this, for some reason the knife that cuts the cocktail things was left on the counter.
“You chucked the knife and it went ‘boiinnnggg’ and I said to you, ‘how come you throw knives?’ and you said the same girl, ‘Me and Angelina we were in a hotel room when we were doing a Western or something and we used to spend the evening just knife throwing together.
“And I was like what?!’ And you were like, ‘we used to just shove the duvet in a cardboard box put the box down the end of the room and just chuck knives.’
“We were all nodding, cool girl. I thought that’s a night in. You’d say ‘we just used to love doing tequila and throwing knives.’ I was thinking, what could possibly go wrong!”
Although he and Jolie didn’t work out, it didn’t put him off other actresses or tying the knot again and Miller married Michele Hicks in 2008.
While the union resulted in the birth of son Buster later that year, they divorced in 2018.
