Actor confronts cancer fears, drawing on personal loss to portray resilience and hope<\/p>\n
Photo: Angelina Jolie poses for pictures on red carpet for the premiere of “Couture”\/Reuters <\/p>\n
Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie faced one of her deepest fears on screen for the French film “Couture” – being diagnosed with \u200bcancer.<\/p>\n
Based on the personal experiences of writer and director Alice Winocour, Jolie plays \u200cfictional American filmmaker Maxine Walker, who, while producing a film to accompany a runway show for Paris Fashion Week, discovers she has breast cancer.<\/p>\n
Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of breast cancer at the age \u200bof 56, and Jolie underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 after discovering she \u200bwas carrying the same genetic mutation as her mother.<\/p>\n
“I thought often of \u2060my mother and how much I think this film would have been wonderful for \u200bher when she was going through this,” she told Reuters<\/em>.<\/p>\n But it wasn’t just about her \u200bmother; Jolie also got involved to bring Walker\u2019s experience to the world.<\/p>\n “You sit in that chair, and whether it’s cancer or anything, whether you’re male or female, we’ve all had that moment. We’ve all \u200bhad that moment where we’ve gotten some news that has shifted our lives,” the \u201cMaria\u201d \u200bactor said.<\/p>\n Jolie had to go through a scene where operation lines were placed on her chest by \u200can \u2060oncologist.<\/p>\n “It felt a strange moment to have Hollywood in my hospital room,” Jolie said. “Here I am, you know, in my gown, getting my needles, doing all the stuff that I do, but now we are sharing it. And so, it felt very vulnerable,\u201d she \u200badded.<\/p>\n Alongside Jolie, the cast \u200bof \u201cCouture\u201d includes Ada, \u2060played by Anyier Anei, who is a model struggling with the fashion industry putting her on a pedestal, and make-up artist Angele, \u200bplayed by Ella Rumpf, who is trying to break out of \u200bthe fashion \u2060scene by becoming a writer.<\/p>\n Jolie hopes that each character\u2019s story will resonate with viewers.<\/p>\n “I think what we found in doing this, and hopefully what the audience will feel, is that we’re \u2060connected,” the \u200b51-year-old said. “We’re connected as human beings, and we \u200ball go through something… And it’s very necessary to pull us all through being human,\u201d Jolie added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Actor confronts cancer fears, drawing on personal loss to portray resilience and hope Photo: Angelina Jolie poses for pictures on red carpet for the premiere of “Couture”\/Reuters Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie faced one of her deepest fears on screen for the French film “Couture” – being diagnosed with \u200bcancer. 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