Angelina Jolie was extremely candid in her interview with Vanity Fair’s Rich Cohen and revealed some what is was like to write and direct her fist movie – as well as shed light on some personal aspects of her life.
Firstly – there will be “no secret wedding” in the works for her and Pitt and forget about more children – at least for now. “I’m not pregnant. I’m not adopting at the moment,” she adds.
“Brad thinks I’m going to be a nightmare,” Angelina said when discussing directing her new movie that she wrote herself, ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey.’
“I had such a good experience he thinks I’m going to be impatient with directors, which I already am. I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it’s the most complicated thing in the world.”
Angelina revealed that directing is in some ways more personal and risky than acting: “I’ve never felt more exposed. My whole career, I’ve hidden behind other people’s words,” “Now it’s me talking. You feel ridiculous when you get something wrong.”
“I had the flu,” Angelina says of how she came to write the script. “I had to be quarantined from the children for two days. I was in the attic of a house in France. I was isolated, pacing. I don’t watch TV and I wasn’t reading anything. So I started writing. I went from the beginning to the end. I didn’t know any other way.” She says she then let Brad take the script to read on a trip: “He called and said, ‘You know, honey, it’s not that bad.'”
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Angelina did not initially intend to direct the film. “It was something I didn’t trust out of my hands,” she explains. “So by default I ended up putting myself in as director.” Of her decision to use all unknown actors from the region, she says, “It couldn’t be anybody else. It’s their story. It was important that they were willing to do it. If none of them were willing, I wouldn’t have made it.”
Brad was very supportive throughout the project. “He’d come in and say what he liked or what he didn’t understand. Like any woman, I would listen to most of it and fight a few things. He’s been so supportive. But it’s hard to separate the person that loves you from the critic, so I don’t think he’s a fair judge.”
“People will judge for themselves. I think if you make a good movie people walk away arguing.”
Angelina wanted an accurate story and so she sent the script to “reporters and writers, people of Serbian and Bosnian nationality who’d been through the war. I was gauging the accuracy…. If they said no, I wouldn’t have done it.”
