Angelina Jolie is simply startled that the product of her directorial debut is nominated to receive a Golden Globe Award. She was on the way to the dentist with her kids when she got the great news. Angelina directed ‘In The Land of Blood and Honey’ – which tells the tale of a romance between a Serbian soldier and Bosnian Muslim woman set during the wars and genocide that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia – the film will compete in the Best Foreign Language Film category.
She told The Hollywood Reporter: “I was on my way and turned on my phone, and saw the subject line on an email. I thought, this can’t be. I never expected this. Just to be able to make a film you care about and then get a distributor makes you happy.”
Angelina shot the movie twice, once in English and again in the native languages of her cast, Bosnian, Serbian and Croatian, and the brunette beauty recently revealed she had discussed every aspect of the scripts with her actors.
She said: “We all spoke about every speech and every scene, and made sure it was right and true. So everybody helped to educate me and we all adjusted the script together.”
“I read a lot of books about the war. I talked to a lot of people, I watched, I listened. I just wanted to tell the real story. I wanted to be respectful of people. [If I did not know something,] I asked.”
Let’s hope Angelina wins – she doesn’t have a Twitter account and that alone makes her worthy.
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