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 Angelina Jolie
Spotlight by: Andrea Tuccillo Angelina Jolie is one half of Hollywood’s hottest couple (The other half being Brad Pitt, of course). She makes news every time her relationship takes a new turn, she stars in a new film, or adopts a new child. But Angelina knows her place in the world, and it’s not on the cover of a gossip magazine. She’s a big star, but she’s refreshingly aware of how that pales in comparison to pressing world issues and is not afraid to address these issues with her activism. Her latest film, A Mighty Heart, contains a story of international relevance. The film is based on the true story of Mariane Pearl, the wife of slain American journalist Daniel Pearl, and focuses on her courageous search to find her missing husband in Pakistan. Pearl was ultimately killed by terrorists, a horrific event that made headlines world-wide. To research her role, Jolie spent time with the real Mariane Pearl (the events in the film are taken straight from Mariane’s memoirs). “When I first met her I was struck by her ability to go to a place of love and tolerance so quickly after something so brutal happened and I think it is a very common reaction of people, and my own, to immediately just be so angry and so lost in self-pity for a loss and furious for something so horrific to have happened to somebody that I cared about,” Jolie says. It was Mariane’s ability to see the bigger picture and work towards a bigger solution which truly inspired Jolie. “I learned to be even more tolerant,” she says. “I think of myself as quite an open, tolerant person but I am quick to anger and with situations like this I don’t think I would have had the strength to do what she did.” In order to portray the realism of the events that took place, British director Michael Winterbottom shot the film in a documentary style. Jolie also credits her director with creating an intimate setting in which all of the actors could bond and really focus on their characters. It’s a connected approach to filmmaking which Jolie prefers. “He leads a really great, open environment,” she says of her director. “He does a load of research, he takes it very seriously, especially a film like this. He makes sure everyone involved has done their research and in this case met with the people that they were playing and then he brings everybody together in this very organic way. Like the house [on location] for example, we had no lights, we had no trailers, we had no place to go; we were all just in this house. So somehow that made us all feel like we were a team and we became a family. We were thrust together and never had space. And especially because of the subject matter of this ... |
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