Angelina Jolie, 50, spoke with Variety like rarely before. No filters, no beating around the bush. And what she said left more than one person in silence. 🖤
The actress confessed that she has never lived with the feeling that she is going to have a long life. She lost her mother young, never knew her grandmother, and a decade ago underwent a preventive double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene. Since then, she has raised her six children —Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne— almost preparing them for her possible absence, not for the role of grandmother. She has already passed the age at which her mother was diagnosed, and that weighs on her. 💔
The statements came while she promotes ‘Couture,’ her new film in which she plays a film director who receives a cancer diagnosis in the middle of Paris Fashion Week. Director Alice Winocour wrote that script inspired by Jolie’s own story. Life imitating art, or the other way around. ✨
