Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were once couple goals of the Hollywood industry. They dated for many years and share six children. Their whirlwind romance started when they portrayed the role of husband and wife in the spy film Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The couple started dating in 2005 and finally tied the know after many years in 2014. However, their marriage did not last long, and Jolie filed for divorce in 2016.
With the divorce proceedings going on it was difficult for the actress to manage her work and personal life. The actress reveals how acting helped her overcome her emotional challenges.
Angelina Jolie named the film that helped her in the healing process
Angelina Jolie was part of the film Those Who Wish Me Dead, released in 2021. In the film, she played the role of a smoke jumper, living with PTSD. The actress felt it was exactly the kind of movie she needed at the time as it provided her with an outlet for her emotional challenges.
Jolie shared with ET,
“I am drawn to people who have been through something and are broken and then find their way forward and overcome it. As an artist, it’s very healing to play people like that. She’s been very healing for me because you just get so broken, and then you stand back up.”
The film was an action thriller directed by Taylor Sheridan. It received mixed reviews and grossed $23 million worldwide.
Impact on Angelina Jolie’s Career after Divorce from Brad Pitt
The Eternals fame shared that the turmoils in her personal life affected her career also. At the time, the ace actress was steadily building her career as a director. Some of her work can be seen in movies like A Place in Time, Unbroken, and By the Sea. However, after the divorce, she paused her directorial work and started taking up acting jobs again.
Talking to Entertainment Weekly, Angelina Jolie shared,
“I love directing, but I had a change in my family situation that’s not made it possible for me to direct for a few years. I needed to just do shorter jobs and be home more, so I kind of went back to doing a few acting jobs. That’s really the truth of it.”
Jolie last directed 2017’s film First They Killed My Father. She is currently engaged in filming the movie Without Blood, which does not have a release date yet.
The actress shared in an interview with The Guardian that separating from Brad Pitt was not an easy task, but she knew what she was doing was necessary. She said,
“I’m not the kind of person who makes decisions like the decisions I had to make lightly. It took a lot for me to be in a position where I felt I had to separate from the father of my children.”
The actress was last seen in Marvel Studios’ superhero film Eternals, available for streaming on Disney+.
Source- Entertainment Tonight
