Angelina Jolie
Headline:
Angelina Jolie in tribute to mother
Synopsis:
The actress paid an emotional tribute to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand during a press conference for her new film Changeling.
Jolie dedicated her performance as Christine Colins, a woman whose son disappears, on her own mother and dedicated her performance to her.
She said of her mother: "She was very much Christine Collins. She was very sweet and she would never get angry and she would never swear, but when it came to her kids she was fierce, so this was very much her story."
Jolie said her mother was too young to die at 58 but was relieved that she was no longer suffering. She said she was 'blessed' to have healthy children of her own and was glad her mother had been able to meet most of them.
Jolie also revealed how she turned the film down after first reading the script because it featured a mass child murderer and was too harrowing. “When I first read the script I couldn’t put it down and then I said no immediately. I didn’t want to go near this story.”
- Publish date:
- 17 November 2008
- Source:
- ITV
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