Angelina Jolie Pitt is out in force to promote By The Sea, her new directing effort co-starring husband Brad Pitt. In her latest interview, she finally commented on insults former Sony co-chairwoman Amy Pascal and producer Scott Rudin wrote in emails.
The emails surfaced in December, when Sony Pictures was hacked. In one message, Rudin called Jolie Pitt a “minimally talented spoiled brat” as Pascal and Rudin complained that Jolie was putting off directing a Cleopatra movie.
In an interview with The New York Times, Jolie Pitt said that she didn’t read any of the emails. However, she was told about them and said she was more worked about Pascal than herself because she is used to personal attacks.
“There are certain things that bother me and certain things that don’t. Personal attacks on me? I think I’m just so used to it,” Jolie Pitt said. “Honestly, my first instinct was that I was worried about Amy. I had someone call her and ask if she was O.K. Not because I’m a saint, but because I think we have to look at the bigger picture. She’s got kids. I knew it was going to unravel for her.”
Jolie Pitt also talked about making By The Sea, which opens on Nov. 13, and her wedding to Pitt. She said that she did question making a film about a couple’s fractured relationship right after getting married to her film’s leading man. But she said that the film helped them develop a new working relationship.
“...By the time we got to the end of the film, we’d argued, challenged each other, disappointed each other, had good days, bad days, all of it,” Jolie Pitt said. “We’d pushed through, learned something about each other, found a new working relationship and came to like the idea of “Yeah, it gets really bad, but you work it out.”