Angelina Jolie and the cast of “Salt” spent last weekend promoting the about female CIA agent Evelyn Salt.
“It feels very strange” says Jolie of the real-life exchange. “There’s obviously two feelings — our relationship with Russia as a country has improved, there’s many things hinging on our relationship, becoming closer, working together. The political citizen in me wants to hope that it doesn’t adjust anything related to that. The side of me that makes a film about this situation thinks, ‘My God, what timing.’ It’s bizarre. It feels like we’re walking into some odd reality.”
“I’ve done action movies before, but not one based on reality, and we talked about it and there really hadn’t been one based on a woman and that was strange to me,” Jolie says. “It felt like uncharted territory that would be fun to explore and a good challenge. I also hadn’t worked for a year and a half and had two babies (twins Knox and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt have just turned 2) and I felt very mommy. I was sitting in my dressing gown reading the script and started to flip through it: jumping off trucks. And I said, ‘You know that may be really good for me right now. It’ll be good to do,’ and the physical part of it felt like a really smart thing to do, just to get out.”
