Clearly for Angelina, playing a character like Mariane is one of the most fulfilling roles she has essayed.
MUMBAI: First of all, she’s tinier than she looks in her films. Wafer-thin, dressed in a white T and pajama pants, looking like a slip of a girl, her veins and tattoos prominent on her arms, she slips in to the Princess Room at the Taj, avoiding eye contact with the press, joking that her unit has fielded her alone to the hungry media. “I’ve been abandoned,” are the first words she says laughingly.
But her famous green eyes flash warningly when there’s a reference to her wild child past and her notorious fascination with death and all things dark; for a moment the smiling visage cracks: “That’s not anything to do with the present film,” she says, “Please let’s focus on it.”
The press, intimidated as it is by the presence of her heavies and minders changes gears and prepares itself to ask ‘safe’ questions — out go the ones about a certain Mr Pitt, bisexuality, and a penchant for knives — and in come the questions about A Mighty Heart, the film that Jolie is starring in, on the life of Mariane Pearl, the widow of the Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed by terrorists in Pakistan.
Clearly for Angelina, who belying her Hollywood star status, has reached out to some of the world’s most disenfranchised people in her role as Goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR, playing a character like Mariane is one of the most fulfilling roles she has essayed.
“She is one of the most gracious tolerant and brave people I know,” Jolie says. “She still loves Pakistanis, she carries no hatred, she is above all that and her life and strength is a reminder that this is what the world needs.”
With the lid firmly on her larger than life notorious image, yesterday, the mother of Maddox, Zaharah and Shiloh, the possessor of 3 Golden Globe, 2 Screen Actor Guild awards and an Oscar, the owner of 17 tattoos and three scars and one of the world’s most celebrated mouths, is keen to portray a more sober, responsible image.
Lauded once for her great wild spirit and described as a ‘loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim’, the new Angelina is a reminder that even loose cannons grow up someday.
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