Angelina Jolie Talks to TIME
The actress, activist and writer-director on Bosnian Serbs, sex scenes and that Oscar pose
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What I really want to do is direct, is one of those old Hollywood jokes, but Angelina Jolie says she never planned on becoming a director. As she tells it, her film In the Land of Blood and Honey available now on DVD is the result of her simply following her desire to know more about the war in Yugoslavia. Ive always felt the responsibility because it was my generation, and it was one that I didnt understand enough and learn enough about, and we had such a delayed intervention, she said.
She wrote the script as a kind of a research project and was talked into making it after it was read by a Hollywood big-shot: Brad Pitt. He wrote me a very nice note about it, and then we talked about it at length, and then we went back to the region together, she says in Times 10 Questions this week (which you can read here).
While some may be surprised at Jolies choice of subject for her directorial debutwouldnt a nice little romantic comedy be easier? the actress says that war films and history films are her personal favorite to watch. As an actor, people think that the films you like are the ones you make, she says. You enjoy asp! ects of your character, but its not your film. Youre just a piece of it.
Jolie also makes sure to enjoy her forays onto the red carpet. I was just having fun on a night you should have fun at, she says about her dramatic leg through the slit her dress pose at the Oscars. That pose now has a name: Joliening. Is she surprised at the effect she has on the culture? You can never understand why certain things become something, she says. Its totally weird.
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