Turns out that being married to Brad Pitt is the waking dream that we’ve long suspected it to be – according to Angelina Jolie at least (Jennifer Aniston might tell a different story, but moving swiftly on…)
Speaking at a press conference in Sydney, Ange has said that life with Brad informed her directing work on upcoming flick Unbroken, the real-life story of Louis Zamperini, an Olympian who was taken prisoner by Japanese forces during World War II.
‘['Unbroken'] is an epic about the human spirit’, she said. ‘So I think certainly in knowing, less about the technical aspect of shooting a war film, but more what I know of him [Brad] as a man and living with this great man and seeing the choices he makes with our family, our children, the way he treats me and the values he holds and learning from my sons.
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‘These are things I think I brought to the film that I understand about men and what I love about men, and what I think I'd want our generation to be reminded of. The great men who came before them and the greatness in them now and how to rise up to it.’
Angelina also touched on how she and Brad made their marriage work while she was in Australia directing Unbroken, and he was in the UK starring in Fury. ‘It was interesting that we had different parts of the war, different theatres of the same war at the same time’, she said. ‘We wrote letters back and forth, 1940s style.’
Watch the speech for yourself below...