Angelina Jolie: Playing a ‘Broken Person’ Is a ‘Very Healing’ Experience
A therapeutic work environment. Angelina Jolie opened up about how she identified with her character’s trauma in her upcoming movie Those Who Wish Me Dead . Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s Ups and Downs Read article “I am drawn to people who have been through something and are broken and then find their way forward and overcome it,” the actress, 45, said in a behind-the-scenes video from the set . “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.” Jolie described her character, Hannah Faber, as “a very broken person who carries a great deal of guilt.” Hannah is a smoke jumper who battles PTSD and blames herself for a tragedy at work. She makes it her mission to protect a 12-year-old boy ( Finn Little ) from hitmen after he witnesses a murder. “On its surface, it feels like a great thriller, a great adventure across an unusual terrain inside a great fire,” the Oscar winner said. “Unde...