Angelina Jolie has revealed she was really nervous about playing Mariane Pearl in new film A Mighty Heart.
A Mighty Heart is based on Pearl’s account of her husband’s abduction and murder in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on Islamic militancy.
Angelina said:
Yeah, and it’s horrible. I was so nervous! I mean, it’s like you’re in a roomful of your closest friends and somebody says, Why don’t you get up and imitate the friend to your left? Nobody would want to do that, ever!....I had to express the worst time in her life and [in the scene where Mariane is told of Danny’s death] the moment when she received the worst information of her life. It became the worst acting day of my life — and really, the hardest thing I’ve ever done.
Dan Futterman plays Daniel Pearl. The movie, to be released by Viacom Inc.’s Paramount Vantage, will be shown at the Cannes Film Festival in May.
Pearl says she wanted to meet Jolie after reading an interview with the actress a few years ago. I thought — this woman could be my friend.
In a joint interview with Pearl, whom Angelina Jolie plays in the new movie A Mighty Heart, the actress tells Glamour magazine that she was intimidated by the prospect of meeting Pearl for the first time, reports People Magazine.
The actress told Glamour magazine:
I was really nervous, thinking, ‘She’s such an intelligent European woman - what are we going to do together?’ So we went to this serious existential play, it seemed like the right thing and it was supposed to be OK for kids.
