Angelina Jolie is sharing her thoughts about the state of her country. The actress and filmmaker is currently in Spain, at the San Sebastian Film Festival, where she's representing her film "Couture." At the festival's press conference, she was asked about the US, specifically about her fears as an artist.
Jolie sighed and took a moment before answering. “I love my country, but at this time, I don’t recognize my country,” she said.
“I’ve always lived internationally, my family is international, my friends, my life… My worldview is equal, united, and international. Anything anywhere that divides or limits personal expressions and freedoms from anyone, I think, is very dangerous. These are such serious times that we have to be careful not to say things casually. These are very, very heavy times we are living in together," she concluded.
Jolie's comments were shared days after Disney's ABC pulled Jimmy Kimmel's nighttime show from the schedule and were a reference to the discussion of censorship that has been going around the country for the past week.
Yesterday, ABC announced that Kimmel would be back on air this week. "We have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy, and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday," reads a statement from the Walt Disney Company.
More details about 'Couture'
Angelina Jolie is attending her first San Sebastian Film Festival. Her new movie, "Couture," is one of the films that are in competition at the festival. Directed by Alice Winocour, the film is set during Paris Fashion Week and follows the lives of three women from different nationalities and circumstances whose stories intertwine, including Jolie's character, who plays an American filmmaker who discovers she has breast cancer.
Jolie's relationship to the role is a close one, with her mother, Marceline Bertrand, suffering from ovarian cancer. In the film's press conference, Jolie opened up about her journey with the disease, and the preventative procedure she chose to get. “I lost my mother and grandmother very young, so I chose to have a double mastectomy about a decade ago,” she said.
When discussing the character, she shared that the film explores desire and sexuality, a topic that's rarely explored when it comes to cancer. "When I read that [Maxine] was diagnosed, I had an idea where it was gonna go, [but] I certainly didn’t think it was gonna end the way it ends. I didn’t think desire would still be a part of the film. It’s important to live and be desirable as a woman, and for those who love a woman to know that," she said.