Angelina Jolie has spoken about shooting her new film By the Sea, centered on a married couple with marital issues, with her husband Bratt Pitt on their honeymoon and she’s now talking about their own marital issues in a new interview with Vogue.
Jolie posed with Pitt and all of their six children in a spread shot by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz for the November issue.
“It's not autobiographical," she told Vogue of the film, which she wrote and directed in addition to starring in. "Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters were even remotely close to our problems we couldn't have made the film."
She admitted it wasn’t the “safest idea,” but explained the reason for doing it as, “As artists we wanted something that took us out of our comfort zones.”
Jolie laughed of the script, “This is the only film I’ve done that is completely based on my own crazy mind.”
She also went on to talk about her decision to have a preventative double mastectomy when finding out she had the BRCA1 gene.
“I feel grounded as a woman,” she said. “My mother and my grandmother started dying in their 40s. I’m 40. I can’t wait to hit 50 and know I made it.”