'Tomb Raider' star's heart with refugees

'Tomb Raider' star Jolie hands out balls to children at the refugee camp

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Blockbuster actress Angelina Jolie, taking a break from shooting her latest film to visit a camp on the Thai-Myanmar border, said her heart was more with these refugees than the Hollywood industry.

Swarms of refugee children came out to greet Jolie at the camp, in a jungle-clad valley 180 km (112.5 miles) west of the Thai capital of Bangkok, on Sunday.

"Having been to these camps, I've never been so nervous that a film does justice to the people involved," she told Reuters news agency. "My heart's more for here than the film business."

Jolie, who won an Oscar for her role as an unhinged teenager in "Girl, Interrupted," was named a goodwill ambassador by the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) last August and has visited camps in Cambodia and Namibia.

Jolie, who went to the camp as part of her work for the UNHCR , starred as Lara Croft in action film "Tomb Raider."

It was then that she developed an interest in the region, and in March she adopted a young Cambodian boy with her actor husband Billy Bob Thornton after shooting "Tomb Raider" in neighboring Cambodia.

Craft said that her visits to the camps had helped prepare her for her latest film, a love story shot in Thailand about a volunteer doctor who worked in refugee camps in Cambodia and Africa during the 1980s, called "Beyond Borders."

'Husband nervous'

Angelina Jolie starred as Lara Croft in 'Tomb Raider'

On Sunday, Jolie said she would love to adopt another child.

"I would love to adopt another child, from wherever there is a need," she told Reuters reporters. "My husband's nervous every time I go to another country."

"For me it makes perfect sense to go to an orphanage and find a child that needs a home," said Jolie, wearing a tribal embroidered smock given to her by the refugees.

Thai camps are home to some 120,000 refugees, mainly from the Karen ethnic minority, who fled fighting between Myanmar troops and ethnic independence armies.

The actress donated a television, video player, sports equipment and over 4,000 sarongs --one for every woman in the camp.

Jolie said she was impressed by how the refugees coped with the camp's cramped conditions and hoped they would be able to return home in the near future.

"I'm always surprised by the people. They seem very happy with what little they have. But obviously, as human beings and after what they have been through -- they should have more."