Angelina Jolie is one of the most talented, famous, and influential actresses in Hollywood. She has seen the highs and lows of the film industry, now having starred in massive projects like Maleficent, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Girl, Interrupted and even being part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with her work in Eternals.
Outside of being a truly exceptional actress, Jolie is also drop-dead gorgeous. Being forced to be reckoned with, it is only natural that she can be a little intimidating to be around for people who don’t personally know her, as was the case for her co-star in her iconic movie, Salt.
X-Men Star Was Nervous To Work With Angelina Jolie
Liev Schreiber, best known for his work in the X-Men franchise as Victor Creed or Sabertooth, co-starred in Angelina Jolie’s Salt. During an interview, the actor revealed that he was quite nervous to work with the Eternals actress due to her fame and status. He added that he did not know her very well and what he did know about her, made him quite concerned for himself.
“I hadn’t known her very well, at all,” Schreiber once told. “I was very nervous in the beginning. I get very nervous around famous people and I get nervous around beautiful women. This was a big double whammy for me and initially really uncomfortable, which was worrying me.”
He elaborated by saying that he tends to get quite nervous around people who are famous as well as people who are beautiful. Since Jolie is both, Schreiber was quite uncomfortable around her. This was something that worried him a lot as the two were to work together for quite some time, so he came up with a solution to help deal with this problem.
Liev Schreiber Tried To Get To Know Angelina Jolie While Working On Salt
Liev Schreiber revealed that he decided to try to get to know Angelina Jolie and become familiar with her in an attempt to humanize the actress so that he could be less anxious around her. This worked quite well as the two very quickly started bonding over their children, both had two kids at the time. Schreiber revealed that they would talk about what stages of development their kids were at and just bonded over them in general.
“I felt like the important part of the job for me was to develop familiarity with her because that was the humanizing factor,” Schreiber said.“But then we bonded over kids very quickly. I have 2 small kids and she has 2 small kids and it quickly became, ‘Oh you’re doing time-outs now? That’s just teething,’ And all the sexual tension went out of the room. All the anxiety about her being very famous and a super-human celebrity kind of went away and I found this very nice easy person that I could relate to,”
He added that this actually helped him get over the s*xual tension that he felt with her and he was able to see Jolie outside of being a celebrity and know her as the person she actually is, a kind, easy-to-relate mother.
Source: CheatSheet
