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Wednesday, September 18, 2019







Earlier this week, I got to sit down and talk with Brad Pitt about his new movie Ad Astra. In James Gray’s sci-fi film, which Pitt also produced through his production company Plan B, Pitt plays astronaut Roy McBride, who is tasked with trying to communicate with his missing father when his father’s work threatens all life on Earth. It’s a surprisingly emotional and somber picture with one of Pitt’s best performances as he portrays a stoic, reserved man coming to grips with his past and his weaknesses.







"We set out to make a very sincere film, a real bare bones, bare, raw honesty.  The danger in that, in sincerity is it can become to earnest and tip the scales of the film. "

"You get older and you just get tired of protecting yourself or having any secrets.   You want to get on with it and we wanted to get on with it in this film in a way.  We all carry great pains, great regrets. We've all experienced loss, we've all experienced great loneliness at times.  And we're good at packing that away and not dealing with it.   Some of us are good at getting through it and coming out the other side with a more well-rounded, a more confident and loving human being.  We just wanted, no holds barred, let's just go, let's get it out there."

"My individual experience is somewhat universal, in the fact that you know our parents, our universe, our gods, our first imprint on on how to behave, react, feel in the world. And with that, to different degrees, some of us more than others, carry pain and confusion from that. I think it almost takes a lifetime to understand what was yours, and what was theirs.  As a child we take fault or something of that nature on ourselves.  It was just a real investigation of parsing through that and being able to understand yourself.  "
"My dad always said he wanted to give me a better life than he had coming from extreme poverty, and he did it. And it makes me think, as a dad, what do I have to offer that's better than I had, to my kids?"

What about women? It's interesting that,hahaha (Brad makes a face) that the 2 female characters are pretty minor characters, minimal appearances on screen and some people have remarked on that.  Tell me the reason for that and the thinking behind that.
"I'm not sure what the remarks are.  This is an investigation of masculinity and our definitions of a Marlboro man-type, never show weakness or vulnerability.  Liv Tyler's character represents his regrets, what he got wrong, what he feels he mishandled or he missed.  And she is in the feminine an example of what we in the masculine need to take better note of.  Ruth Negga's character is a voice of wisdom that sends us in the ultimate direction of death and rebirth.

Publicly you spoke of what it's like to go through one of these things that not many men talk about, many men don't think it's OK to get help for certain things like alcohol and other kinds of substance.  You spoke without revealing the confidential nature of Alcoholics Anonymous about what it did, what it gave to you.  Can you tell me so that other people who are in that situation might get a boost from somebody like you if they need that kind of help.
"I don't know, for me what I realized is that I was running to things to avoid tough feelings, painful feelings.  I just didn't know how to deal with them. Anything I found that I used for escape.  Those kinds of difficult feelings, I don't know how better to describe it. It can be anything, drugs, booze, Netflix, snacks. Anything. I don't want at this point to be running from anything.  I want to sit in it, I want to feel it, I want to get through the rough night. I found in doing so, you come out the other side with a more profound understanding, of yourself and a greater gratefulness for those in your life. And the birds and the trees and everything else."

"At that moment, I was just a boy from the Ozarks on the playground.. and that's.. and that's how we confronted with things."
"I just wanted to make sure nothing was going to happen further, because she (Paltrow) was going to do two films. I think the interesting thing is that we, Hollywood specifically, but the workplace, men and women's dynamics is being recalibrated, recalibrated in a very good way that is long overdue. And I do think that's an important story to tell."





VENICE, Italy (AP) — Brad Pitt made the first move with James Gray.

In 1995, he saw Gray’s debut “Little Odessa” and decided to call up the young filmmaker behind the grim Brooklyn crime drama. They’ve been talking ever since — about films, life and working together. But it would take almost 25 years for the stars to finally align, fittingly, for an ambitious, original space odyssey called “Ad Astra” that opens in theaters nationwide Friday.

“It’s a gutsy film,” Pitt said last month. The 55-year-old both produced and stars in the story about an astronaut who ventures almost entirely alone into the outer reaches of space to investigate a disturbance that may be tied to his missing father. It’s something Gray had been working on for years.

Pitt’s choice of the word “gutsy” is appropriate, not just as a description of the film and its exploration of big themes like masculinity with the grand canvas of space as its backdrop, but in talking about the fact that it exists at all. Not many studios and production companies are handing over $80 million for original ideas anymore. That Pitt’s Plan B, New Regency and 20th Century Fox banded together to make “Ad Astra” happen is, Gray said, “Beyond rare...It’s a big risk.”

Pitt, sitting next to his director, chimed in: “It’s why studios have veered away from them. They’re a big gamble: The cost, the prints and advertising. It’s why they have to take safer bets.”

The business has changed so much that Gray doubts that “Ad Astra” would even be made today. But three years ago the two decided to take a leap on this big idea to make an epic set in the near future that Gray likes to call “science-fact-fiction.” Gray was fascinated by the type of personality that’s required for space travel and that Neil Armstrong, upon returning to Earth from the Apollo 11 mission talked only about the logistics and facts — nothing metaphysical or contemplative.

“Deflection,” Pitt said. “I do it all the time.”

Not that Pitt isn’t introspective about his work. He said he was drawn to the idea of the “dark night of the soul. When one is really forced to address their self and the things we carry and most likely bury, congenital griefs, regrets, those personal pains and to come out the other side, hopefully, embracing those is the way to becoming whole.”

“It was something on my mind as well,” Pitt said.

And his performance is a standout that critics and awards observers have taken note of, on top of his acclaimed work earlier this summer in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.”

“He is a fabulous actor,” Gray said. “And there aren’t that many fabulous actors with mucho charisma in the world.”

Pitt disagrees with his friend, but he is happy to keep working.

“I so believe in being creative and want to be creative till it’s all said and done, until someone pulls the plug on me,” Pitt said.

Part of that involves throwing his production company’s weight behind ambitious, original projects, some of which work out and go on to win Oscars and steer the cultural conversation (“12 Years a Slave,” ″Moonlight”), and some that don’t. Plan B produced Gray’s last film, “The Lost City of Z,” a period adventure film about explorer Percy Fawcett, which never played on more than 1,000 theaters, nor made back its $30 million production budget.

“Ad Astra” has already seen a bit of turbulence before its release. It was one the Fox films that is now being released by Disney after it acquired the rival studio, causing “Ad Astra’s” release date to shift a few times.

“It’s like worrying about the alignment of the planets. It’s so past your pay grade,” said Gray, who was finishing the film when the deal was happening. “Was I worried? No, because I can’t do anything about it. I just thought, ‘Well that’s weird.’ But I will say in one small respect I disagree with Brad on this. I do think that one company controlling 40% of the theatrical market in the world is a dangerous proposition. That’s almost a monopoly. So to the degree that means fewer films, fewer, fewer chances to make this kind of film, that’s a source of some concern.”

Pitt has also been asking big questions like if “film as an art form is going to last” when the two start riffing about whether they have the same staying power today.

“If I say to you ‘I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,’ you know what I just did, right?” Gray asked. “Can you quote me a line from ‘Avatar?’”

Pitt’s response? He loves “Avatar.”

But Gray has a bigger argument: “It’s visually spectacular, but it’s a different form of the medium. And if we lose ‘I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse,’ then we lose something big.”

By this point, Pitt had wandered over to the massive window in the room and was snapping photos of the beach and water outside when he started to laugh to himself. He said he was thinking about the lasting quotes that have come from his own career and spit-balled a few, like “What’s in the box?” from “Seven,” and “Don’t condescend me, man,” from “True Romance.”

Nothing, he concluded, had the weight of Marlon Brando’s line from “The Godfather.”

“Well you know what Francois Truffaut said,” Gray asked. “He said cinema has to be part truth, part spectacle.”

Pitt paused and thought about it: “Now we either have all spectacle or all truth.”

The hope is that “Ad Astra” is a bit of both.


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Thursday, April 5, 2012

Bosnia 20 Years Later

You understand both Angelina's motivation to tell the story and why the crisis registered so prominently on her radar when you see how involved UNHCR was.

UNHCR could not have imagined what a prized asset she would be to them when she first contacted them 10 years ago. 



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The siege of Sarajevo began 20 years ago. Lasting nearly four years, it became one of the most dramatic and emblematic events of the violent breakup of the former Yugoslavia.



From our archive: 20 years since the Yugoslav Wars - a look back in pictures

Opinion: Bosnia's lesson for Syrian slaughter

By Christiane Amanpour, CNN
April 5, 2012 -- Updated 1726 GMT (0126 HKT)

CNN (CNN) -- Twenty years ago, April 5, 1992, Suada Dilberovic and Olga Sucic were shot and killed in Sarajevo. They were the shots heard around the world and they started the Bosnian War.
I covered that war, and many colleagues are gathering in Sarajevo now to commemorate what took hundreds of thousands of lives, left so many more wounded, and created millions of refugees. This was the war that introduced us to the term "ethnic cleansing."
The dominant Balkan power at the time, Serbia wanted to keep Yugoslavia together, and failing that, to carve out ethnically pure areas in the breakaway states to create a Greater Serbia.
It was a horrible fantasy that sought to destroy an ethnically mixed, intermarried community that had lived peacefully and progressively together in Bosnia.
This war was defining for the region, for the world and for those of us who covered it.
See some amazing photos from the war
We witnessed the heroic resistance of a population under siege and shelling and sniping for nearly four years. We learned the pain of watching men, women and children brutally slaughtered. These were the non-combatants, casually targeted in the crosshairs of the sniper's rifle, blown apart by mortar shells when they went to collect water, bread, fuel or even heading to school.

Sarajevo's 'Romeo and Juliet'
We learned the bitter cynicism of the international community that refused for some time to intervene, the United States and its allies finding every which way, and every tortured rhetorical device -- including refusing to use the word genocide -- to avoid getting off the sidelines.
I will never forget going to the funerals, one for a little girl called Almedina. Sarajevo had run short of everything even the letter "A" so Almedina's grave marker could not be spelled correctly.
I will never forget the mothers and fathers who would try to brave the siege around Sarajevo airport, then try to make a dash to the other side where in one village they could buy or scrounge some fresh fruit or vegetables, anything to complement the meager rations and dried food the humanitarian airlift would bring.
The night I was out there, a father managed to find a single apple for his child. For that he had risked his life.
On Friday more than 11,000 empty chairs will be arranged in silent poignant and powerful memory of Sarajevo's war dead.
Along with the citizens of Sarajevo and other besieged Bosnian towns and villages, many of our colleagues were killed and wounded.
And who will ever forget the death camps, the skeletal prisoners who evoked the terrible crimes of World War II? But this was at the end of the 20th century. This was the satellite age. We were there and we reported the story day in and day out, week after week, month...year after year.
This was the era of "never again" and it was happening again -- ethnic cleansing and genocide here in our own backyard, and on our watch. We fought back with all the power of our media.
For me, Bosnia was where I learned about the truth. Horrified when the do-nothing crowd suggested I was taking sides, or losing my objectivity, I was forced to confront this charge, and examine our Golden Rule.
Here in Bosnia I determined that in the face of unspeakable crimes and the most serious violations of international humanitarian order, there is no moral equivalence, no blurring the line between victim and aggressor.
Objectivity means giving all sides a fair hearing. It does not mean drawing a false moral equivalence. In this case there is no one-hand-or-the other. And anyone who seeks to hide under that calumny is not just a liar, but an accessory, in this case to genocide.
I refused. It is the lesson of my lifetime.
As we all know, tens of thousands of deaths later including at Srebrenica in the summer of 1995, the worst massacre in Europe since World War Two, the U.S. finally intervened with NATO allies, ended the war and launched the peace that holds to this day.
No country, no crisis, is the same. Of course Syria is not Bosnia, nor is it Libya, but in Syria today a heavily armed military is besieging and slaughtering ordinary civilians and outgunned rebels too as the state tries to crush an uprising.
Just like in Bosnia, the Syrian rebels/opposition have been denied the right to self defense, for fear of "accelerating the conflict on the ground and making it worse."
Just like in Bosnia when the U.S. and its allies said they could not intervene "because it's a civil war and all sides are equally guilty," (although that was not the case as there was a clear aggressor) in Syria today they say they "don't know who to help, who to arm, the opposition is fragmented."
The lesson of Bosnia is that our democratic and free world which seeks to uphold the highest values bestowed on humankind, could no longer watch as ordinary civilians were butchered.
It's a lesson that took too long to implement, and the peace is not perfect, but at least the killing stopped.



 

The Bosnia War 20 Years Later: Photos by Peter Turnley


 Peter Turnley / Corbis

 
Twenty years ago this month, Suada Dilberović and Olga Sučić were killed by Serb snipers at a peace rally, and mortar shells started falling on Sarajevo, marking the beginning of the Bosnian War. The conflict erupted in the wake of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia in 1991, pitting the nascent countries of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, and Croatia against each other along complicated ethnic and religious lines and leaving an estimated 100,000 people dead. In the three years between when the war officially broke out and when it ended in December 1995, some 200,000 people died, up to 50,000 women were raped, and 2.2 million people were displaced from their homes. It was the worst mass killings, and genocide, Europe had seen since World War II. Peter Turnley, a contract photographer for Newsweek at the time, captured the people and countries ravaged in the war.

“I have covered war and conflict worldwide over the course of the past 30 years,” Turnley says.
“While all conflicts are tragic, the war in Bosnia seemed to me to be one of the darkest and most profoundly sad conficts I have witnessed—a war among people that have been neighbors for centuries, who have so much in common with each other, yet have had such difficulty forgiving if not forgetting reailites and events of the past in order to live peacefully in the present. I continue to hope for bright, loving, and forgiving light to illuminate the life of this region for the future.”
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Monday, December 5, 2011

With Christiane Amanpour

Angelina Jolie Talks to Christiane Amanpour Blogs by Melissa Silverstein | December 6, 2011 | 0 Comments Here is a very comfortable Jolie talking with Christiane Amanpour about her upcoming film - In the Land of Blood and Honey. Film opens December 23rd.

Angelina Jolie on Motherhood and Having a Family With Brad Pitt


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Dec. 5, 2011
In her first foray into writing and directing, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie chose to shine a spotlight on a country that has been stricken by years of genocide and incredible violence.
Jolie's film, "In the Land of Blood and Honey," due out in theatres on Dec. 23, tells the story of the Bosnian conflict from both sides of the racial divide, and how the Bosnian people were changed forever after their homeland was ripped apart by war in the 1990s.
"I was thinking and meditating on these international themes of violence against women, lack of intervention, and how human beings are changed and warped by war, and how some people come out stronger and some people are truly broken," Jolie told "This Week" anchor Christiane Amanpour, who covered the Bosnian conflict in the 1990's. "There's no safe way to tackle these subject matters, but I think the important thing is to discuss them and tackle them."
Watch the full story on "Nightline" tonight at 11:35 p.m. ET
As a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Jolie has traveled many times to some of the world's most war-torn and impoverished countries. She said she didn't intentionally choose Bosnia for the setting of her debut film, but said the more she researched the Bosnian conflict, the more she was taken by it.

"This is our generation's war. … this was, you know, the worst genocide since World War II in Europe," she said. "It was-- 'what were we all doing?' And 'did we do enough' and 'why do we not speak about this enough' and 'why I don't know enough about this?' And so I wanted to learn. I felt a responsibility to learn."
The actress said it felt "bizarre" to play the role of the writer and the director, but added that it was "great not to be in front of the camera." Jolie said "writing is the hardest because it feels the most exposed."
"When you're an actress, you use somebody else's words and you can always blame the director and the director can say the editor," she said. "But the writer is the one that kind of sits alone in the room and writes what they think is important, funny, historical, topical."
The entire cast of "In the Land of Blood and Honey" is made up of locals from the region because this was "their story," Jolie said. The actress added that she even kept her name a secret when they first sent the script to the cast, because she said she wanted an honest reaction from the people who had lived through the war.
"If we sent this script out and actors read it and said 'this is irresponsible' or 'this is inappropriate,' then I wouldn't have done it," Jolie said. "I would have shelved and burnt it."
Actresses Zana Marjanovic and Vanessa Glodjo, who star in the film, told Amanpour they were touched by Jolie's script when they read it, which they said didn't soften the conflict as other films have.
"When I read the script, it was -- I had knives in my chest, in my stomach," Glodjo said. "And I said, 'My God. What is this? What is this really? It's so strong.'"
Both actresses said they hope "In the Land of Blood and Honey" reminds people of what their country went through during the Bosnian conflict.
"Our fear is that people won't know what happened and being ignorant about what happened leaves a chance that it may happen again," she said. "Hopefully, if it changes or opens up the view of one person, we did a great thing." While she said she isn't expecting the film to be a box office hit, Jolie believes it was an important project to take on.
"We did it because we felt this is a war that isn't talked about enough," Jolie said. "I know it's a hard film to sit through, but it's two hours to sit through something that's very hard, and these people lived through it for many, many years, and it was many, many times worse than any reenactment could possibly be. And I feel like it's a gift and a duty to sit through two hours of what they lived through."
The star has garnered international fame for launching several revitalization projects in struggling countries, and famously adopting children from those regions, which she and actor Brad Pitt raise and homeschool together.
"I'm being very careful with their schooling, we're home-schooling especially when it comes to history, to make sure it's not one country's point of view of their country," Jolie said. "Because it has to be very balanced and they have to learn about their country so they can form their own conclusions."
The six children of the Jolie-Pitt household make up their own mini-United Nations of sorts. Aside from Pitt and Jolie's biological children, 5-year-old Shiloh and 3-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, the family includes Maddox, 10, from Cambodia, Pax, 8, from Vietnam and Zahara, 6, from Ethiopia.
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"I look at them and think what their birth parents must have gone through, what their birth grandparents would have done through, and so I feel connected to it," Jolie said. "It's a gift when you adopt a child from another country. This whole country enters your home."
Jolie and Pitt are often seen with their kids in tow. The star said the whole family travels together, wherever they go, and the kids are even always on location with them.
"It's so hard with family in this business so we take turns working, so whenever one of us works, the other makes sure they're there for the kids so we never have to split up the family," Jolie said. "If it's over five days, everybody's got to move in a big traveling mass."
Despite their megawatt stardom, Jolie said she and Pitt try to keep things "normal" and even have date nights together. Just like other couples, the actress admitted they have their differences in opinion, especially when it comes to politics. For one, Jolie said she and Pitt differ on the death penalty.
"I won't say whose side anyone is on, but it's the one, the thing nobody brings up at dinner because nobody wants us to go off on each other," she said. "But it's fun. It's a fun debate, you know? It's a good-- you want to be able to have -- to respect each other's views and to not be exactly-- we're not identical. We have-- we have strong views."
However, when asked if there were wedding bells in the future for her and Pitt, Jolie delicately dodged the question.
"The kids asked me the other day and I asked them if it was just because they wanted to have a 'big cake,'" she said, laughing. "They see movies that have the people getting married in the movies or somebody's, you know, the happily ever after. Shrek and Fiona are married."
"We've explained to them that our commitment when we decided to start a family was the greatest commitment you could possibly have. Once you have six children, you're…you're committed."
Jolie has starred in more than 30 films, earning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the 1999 film, "Girl, Interrupted." However, she said motherhood has changed her whole attitude about her career.
"I don't feel needed in a position of being an actor. I feel like I'm needed at home as a mom, and I'm hoping that I'll find other things," Jolie said. "I'd love to be able to write or direct or work on and produce more projects about issues dealing with situations that I feel passionate about."
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

This Week with ABC and others

The main course is on ABC's Nightline on Monday 11:30PM EDT.  This Week with Amanpour on Sunday is just an appetizer.

Christiane Amanpour


Very moving to talk to Angelina Jolie about the war I covered in Bosnia for Monday's . Her cast lived through the war.


Christiane Amanpour

Angelina told me she chose this as her directing debut to show dangers of turning away from genocide, see a preview tomorrow on This Week

 
Matt Mazur

The last 48 hours have been rather intense & at moments exhilarating, but the next 48 hours are going to truly put me through the gauntlet.

 
Nadia Neophytou

Just came out of In the Land of Blood&Honey. Can't quite explain how I feel. Physically ill. Heavy-hearted. Need to sit with it a little
Was my initial reaction. It's a deeply affecting, powerful film RT physically ill is never good. Was it that raw?

Anne Thompson

RT : The stunning Angelina Jolie lights up the Newsweek cover this week
Anne Thompson

RT : I couldn't get an interview with Angelina Jolie, but she's on Christianne Amanpour right now talking about her new film.
Scott Macaulay

Huh. I couldn't get an interview with Angelina Jolie, but she's on Crhistianne Amanpour right now talking about her new film.
 

CineKink
Well, did you promise her a chance to also talk about "husband Brad Pitt and their six children"? Yeesh.

Scott Macaulay
She's not doing celeb interview for the new movie. 60 Minutes, Amanpour, all about Bosnian refugees, the war, etc.

CineKink
Amanpour's outro pitch for the morning show included the mention of Brad, etc. I was surprised, didn't match previous tone.

Scott Macaulay
Oh, got it. I turned it off by that point. As the opening approaches, I'm sure the pitches will drift more towards the celeb.
 
R. Jeffrey Grace

You can't copyright facts. RTsAngelina Jolie sued

Director Angelina Jolie poses with Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija at the Waldorf Hotel in Manhattan, N.Y. Dec. 3, 2011.
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Angelina Jolie gets together with Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija, who stars in her movie "The Land of Blood and Honey," during a visit to New York City on Saturday.


Dec 4, 2011 12:40pm

Angelina Jolie Steps Behind the Camera ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey’

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ABC News’ Imtiyaz Delawala reports:

Academy Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie often tackles violence and war in her action films.
But her latest film, “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” she tackles it in entirely different way, delving into the lives of innocent people caught in the middle of the war in Bosnia in the 1990′s.
For the first time, Jolie stepped behind the camera, writing and directing the film that examines the Bosnian conflict through the eyes of characters witnessing the systematic violence and genocide that enveloped the region for more than three years.
“I was thinking and meditating on these international themes of violence against women, lack of intervention, and how human beings are changed and warped by war, and how some people come out stronger and some people are truly broken,” Jolie told “This Week” anchor Christiane Amanpour, who covered the conflict in the 1990′s. “There’s no safe way to tackle these subject matters, but I think the important thing is to discuss them and tackle them.”
While the United States was heavily involved and finally ended the Bosnian conflict in 1995, the war that raged for more than three years in the heart of Europe was considered one of the greatest collective failure of international diplomacy since World War II.
“It’s infuriating how long it took to intervene,” Jolie said of the conflict. “When I say ‘intervene,’ I don’t mean always boots on the ground, I don’t mean that. It’s just being conscious, discussing it, not hiding the issues, and figuring out and working towards solutions with the people on the ground.”
While Jolie is a Hollywood star known more for her high-profile film roles and her relationship and family with actor Brad Pitt, she says those who know her well know that tackling such as serious subject matter as the Bosnian war is not out of character.
Jolie serves as a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Jolie did extensive research for “In the Land of Blood and Honey,” pouring through articles and photos to try to capture individual stories from the conflict.
“There’s a great photograph that I had in the office,” Jolie said, describing a photo of a woman. “She’s got the pearls, and she’s dressed. And she’s done her hair. And it’s just, you may shoot at me, but you will not remove my humanity, my dignity, my self, my person. I am going to continue to keep my head up.”
When casting the film, Jolie decided to turn to local actors who lived through the war, on all sides of the ethnic divides.
“I would not have done the film without them,” Jolie said. “It belongs to them, it’s their story.”
Actresses Zana Marjanovic and Vanessa Glodjo said they were moved by the script written by Jolie, which they said didn’t soften the conflict as many films do.
“When I read the script, it was — I had knives in my chest, in my stomach,” Glodjo said. “And I said, ‘My God. What is this? What is this really? It’s so strong.’”
Both actresses said they hope the film serves as a reminder of what happened during the Bosnian conflict, and the physical and emotional destruction of the war.
“Our fear is the silence. Our fear is ignorance. Our fear is that people won’t know what happened,” Marjanovic said. “And being ignorant about what happened leaves a chance that it may happen again.”
Jolie said she was “very moved” by her experience making the film, and said she hopes it conveys the people of the region well.
“There is something in this film we hope through the music, through the people, through the relationships, that also shows the warmth and the love, and the humor, and the life of the people from this part of the world that is special,” Jolie said.
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Saw Angelina Jolie + Christiane Amanpour doing walk-and-talk w/ cameras.
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