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Dec 08, 2011

Angelina Jolie 'sensitive' about sex scenes

 
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY

Updated 4h 23m ago

Angelina Jolie has done her fair share of bedroom scenes in her 18-year career, some involving nudity. So how did it feel on the other side of the camera, ordering her lead actors to simulate sex sans clothing in her directing debut, In the Land of Blood and Honey, her Bosnian War romance opening Dec. 23."What's funny is I probably was more sensitive to the situation," says Jolie of several sequences involving Bosnian actors Zana Marjanovic and Goran Kostic as a POW in a women's prison camp and her military captor. "I believe it was Zana's first love scene and Goran is a family man with wife and kids. You kind of suddenly feel this strange thing of asking people to participate in anything like that. Because they're not a real couple. And you find out how strange this is to ask anybody to get naked together and put a camera on them."
Not that the actors felt much embarrassment. "They actually made me more comfortable. I was being a lot more prudish. I would have allowed them to be more prudish and they told me it was all right and important for the story. They wanted to do what they wanted to do and were comfortable. Early on, I told them -- especially her -- that I've been through it and felt misrepresented when it comes to that stuff."
How so? "You do love scenes and you feel, 'Why did they hold on to that and why did they feel they needed to do that?' "
She did appreciate Marjanovic's softer, more womanly and less Hollywood look. "I felt very protective, especially of her body. But being exposed in a way was part of the story. She has a very beautiful body that is very organic in that European sense. She is a real woman and a beautiful woman."