Angelina Jolie admitted she nearly cut her nude bathtub scene in her 2015 film By the Sea.
The 48-year-old Hollywood star directed the romantic flick, where she also played her ex Brad Pitt’s on-screen lover. However, she considered getting rid of the full frontal bath scene because her breasts had been removed.
The Oscar-winning actress had her boobs removed in 2013. She bravely got a double masectomy after tests revealed she had a high change of developing breast cancer.
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The star was seemingly uncomfortable with the full frontal shot but decided to keep it for the sake of the film. She believed removing it would have been “cheating”.
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“There were lots of scenes I wanted to change or cut,” she told the New York Times. “I realised it was going to be me [naked] in that bathtub. But I told myself, put all of that aside.
“Like, you can’t change or cut this scene because you’ve had a mastectomy, or because we’re [Brad Pitt and I] are married and people are going to analyse this or that. That would be cheating.”
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The Tomb Raider pin-up admitted directing the saucy flick was tough as she had to orchestrate sex scenes with her then-husband Pitt. And Jolie’s character Vanessa was “vulnerable”. so she had to ensure she was stepping into the character during the intimate scenes.
“The duality – being a director, then having to become a person that vulnerable – would often be hard. There’s a whole reel of me calling ‘cut!’ If a doctor saw it, I’d be put on medication.
“I’m hysterically crying and then calling ‘cut!’ or during a sex scene I am calling ‘cut!’ on Brad. You had to laugh at how bizarre it was.”
Angelina filed for divorce from Brad in September 2016 and the divorce was finalised in 2019. But a bitter dispute over custody began in 2020 and ended with Brad getting joint custody of their five youngest children.
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