Angelina Jolie's new film Without blood It depicts the horror that follows a war, and the film's star, Salma Hayek Pinault, was initially reluctant to star in the movie.
“I was afraid to play this role. I didn’t jump right in because my character suffers a lot and I had to go there and suffer throughout the entire filming,” Salma said. Variety at the Toronto Film Festival.
He Frida The star continued: “You can’t push the pain out. You have to keep it boiling, boiling, boiling for hours, for days, for weeks. So I was terrified and I didn’t want to do it.”
She added: “The more we talked about it… I started to see myself, my own traumas, the traumas of people I know, who are close to me, in this character that was so foreign at first and that I didn’t want to go to. I started to realise, ‘What do you mean you don’t want to go? You’ve always been there. ’ I started to see how it connected to so many women, even if you’re not in the post-war era. We’ve all been pushed aside and not seen or abused in one way or another.”
Reflecting on the film's theme, Angelina said: “It was something that everyone, and especially these two extraordinary actors, had to do coming on set in a very, very human way,” Jolie added. “We all had to talk about what it was like. After thinking about that pain, and thinking about that desire for revenge, and thinking about all that pain, and listening to the other side. Can you let it wash over you? Have you really listened?” [what the other side is saying]And can you let it transform you?
