Angelina Jolie’s latest role in a movie directed by Clint Eastwood and presented at Cannes Film Festival, turns out to be one of her most personal as she recognizes the figure of his dead mother in it, People Magazine reported.
“I lost my mother a few months before filming,” the actress said at a press conference in Cannes.
The movie is about a mother’s search for her missing child, based on a true 1928 incident in Los Angeles that eventually helped alter the California judicial system.
“My character reminded me of my mother, and it was a kind of way to revisit my mom after passing and spend time with her,” said Jolie, whose mother, Marcheline Bertrand, lost a battle with ovarian cancer in January 2007. Bertrand was 56.
“My mother was very passive in many ways and very, very sweet - but when it came to her children, she was a lion,” the star explained.
Putting on her humanitarian hat, Jolie spoke of a bureaucratic legal system that hasn’t necessarily changed, despite the passing of the years since the period when her new movie takes place.
“It is symbolic of many things happening today,” Jolie, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency, added.
