"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? Plucking?"
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"Absolutely ripe" is playful but pointed, an image that makes sexuality sound organic, bodily, inevitable. And then she adds the verbal stutter - "what would you say?" - like she’s auditioning euphemisms in real time. It’s a flirtation with the audience’s discomfort. She knows the word she wants (and knows you know it), but she makes you sit in the space between decorum and candor. That’s where celebrity interviews live: the sanctioned zone for intimacy that never quite becomes intimacy.
The kicker is "plucking" - not "deflowering", not "seducing", not even "sleeping with". "Plucking" suggests harvest, appetite, a hand reaching in. It’s funny because it’s slightly wrong, almost too innocent for what it implies, and that mismatch produces the heat. Subtextually, she’s taking a narrative usually imposed on young actresses - availability, innocence, the ticking clock of desirability - and re-staging it as self-aware performance. She’s both the object being discussed and the author of the terms, which is the real flex.
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Jolie, Angelina. (2026, February 19). The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? Plucking? FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fact-is-i-am-not-having-sex-but-i-feel-33116/
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Jolie, Angelina. "The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? Plucking?" FixQuotes. February 19, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fact-is-i-am-not-having-sex-but-i-feel-33116/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"The fact is I am not having sex. But I feel absolutely ripe for the, what would you say? Plucking?" FixQuotes, 19 Feb. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/the-fact-is-i-am-not-having-sex-but-i-feel-33116/. Accessed 28 Feb. 2026.






