Angelina Jolie appeared on The Today Show on Friday, and she chatted with Al Roker about everything from her recent bout of chickenpox to what it's like directing husband Brad Pitt.

Jolie was forced to cancel a handful of events to promote her new film, Unbroken, and when asked about getting sick, she told Roker, "It was so absurd ... What was even stranger, during the day before, I was doing interviews and I was like, 'what is happening?!'"

Brad ended up attending the Los Angeles premiere of the movie with their children (well, half of them!) Maddox, 13, Pax, 11, and Shiloh, 8, and Jolie added, "It was really fun that my kids took the mantle. They took it very seriously when I said, 'You've got to represent mom. You gotta do this for me. You gotta do this for Louie [Zamperini].'"

So what about working with her husband on the upcoming flick By the Sea? "It was like a honeymoon," she gushed. "Just [it was] like on-screen and a dysfunctional one." The two finally tied the knot in France over the summer, and though she's previously admitted that working with Brad wasn't the easiest thing, she's seemingly doing a little bit of damage control here. "As a director, you want to help your actor," Jolie said. "As a wife, you really want to help your husband. So you want everything to be right for them. But there's something we found, which is if you work with the person you love and trust most in this world, it's pretty great."