How Angelina Jolie Began Getting Into Character
At first of rehearsals, “they have been placing us collectively and making an attempt outfits on us, seeing how we glance as a pair,” Jolie told Vogue, a couple of week after she met Pitt. “It’s all the time so foolish; you don’t know any individual and in three days you’re going to be ‘married.’ However he’s pretty, Brad Pitt. He’s very candy.”
She described Mr. & Mrs. Smith as “a examine in marriage and the way nicely you already know your accomplice. There’s the whole lot from {couples} remedy to arguing in regards to the drapes, and also you assume they’re having affairs, and then you definitely slowly uncover that the rationale they’re having issues is as a result of they’ve very completely different lives and have secrets and techniques from one another.”
On the time, Pitt had been married to Jennifer Aniston since 2000 and Jolie was twice-divorced, from Jonny Lee Miller in 1999 and Billy Bob Thornton in 2003, every after about three years of marriage.
“My opinion of marriage comes from a really cynical place,” Jolie defined. “Do you wish to kill your partner? For me, that’s a critical query. And Brad Pitt comes from a spot of: What a humorous concept, to kill the particular person you’re married to, as a result of he has a cheerful marriage. So we’re truly a really humorous mixture.”
She drew from her previous to tell her character. “For me, it was a number of excited about outdated relationships I had—marriages I had,” she instructed EW earlier than the film got here out in June 2005, “and pondering, Oh, that’s the purpose the place I needed to kill that particular person.”