Brangelina didn’t sail through ‘By the Sea’

Jolie and Pitt on working together for film and how latter found wife ‘sexy’ as a boss

LOS ANGELES: Angelina Jolie said while it was a good experience working with her co-star and husband Brad Pitt on their latest film By the Sea, it was no easy feat. “In the first film, we had a lot of fun because of the subject matter. But this film is very heavy,” said Jolie, comparing the film to the duo’s 2005 movie Mr and Mrs Smith.

“It’s not really fun but the pleasure is breaking through something together and pushing each other and getting to the other end of it and learning something about each other. So, that was good but it wasn’t easy. But he [Pitt] was wonderful,” she added.

Pitt had shared his wife’s sentiments, as he previously said the scenes were tough but he felt the two worked well together. “It’s not always a pleasurable place to be as far as the scenes are concerned. But we work so well together. We go home together and we get up and go to work together. It was a great experience, it really was,” Pitt had earlier said.

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He further added that having his wife as the filmmaker and his boss was ‘sexy’. “It’s surprising how much I enjoyed the direction of my wife. She’s decisive, incredibly intuitive, and might I say, sexy at her post. I trust her with my life,” he stated.

Jolie and Pitt play an unhappy couple in By the Sea and although Jolie had admitted earlier that their marriage isn’t perfect, she insisted they are nothing like their onscreen characters. “Brad and I have our issues, but if the characters were even remotely close to our problems, we couldn’t have made the film,” she shared. 

Published in The Express Tribune, November 10^th, 2015.

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