Angelina Jolie Opens Up on Loss at 'Couture' Screening, 5 Years After She Says She Wasn't Ready
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Updated · Just Jared · Jun 16
Angelina Jolie Opens Up on Loss at 'Couture' Screening, 5 Years After She Says She Wasn't Ready
3 articles · Updated · Just Jared · Jun 16
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Angelina Jolie said at a New York screening of “Couture” that she did not feel strong enough even five years ago to be “open and trusting” and vulnerable again.
The film centers on Maxine, an American filmmaker diagnosed with breast cancer in Europe, a role Jolie said resonated because her mother died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007.
Jolie, who later underwent a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried the BRCA1 mutation, said the movie shows women leaning on one another through deeply human challenges.
At the Whitby Hotel event, she also honored her late mother, saying she would have given anything to have her alive for her grandchildren.