And playing her made a bona fide movie star out of a 26-year-old Angelina Jolie.
Some of their [images] were safer than Angelinas, whose was quite dangerous.
She had all sorts of thing written about hersome obviously not true.
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She was a young woman experimenting, West tells EW.
She lived quite an alternative lifestyle and didnt hold back her words.
She spoke her mind, and she had a notorious reputation.
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I wanted that mythology of Angelina Jolie to fuse with Lara Croft.
Nobody had any issue with her acting chops; her likability to mainstream audiences was what the studio questioned.
Angelina came over after I cast her and we were talking about the character being from British aristocracy.
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She said, So I should take etiquette lessons, shouldnt I?
I should learn how you eat and how you hold a teacup?
I said, No!
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We talked about the character as seriously as any character in a drama.
It wasnt that we had to pander to any sort of superficial stuff that people were expecting.
She went on to do amazing things with charity and world events.
It was kind of inspiring for her, and she really wanted to inspire girls.
At the time, the studio was incredibly nervous at what the outcome could have been.
But its amazing how things work so slowly.
But finallyThe Hunger Gamesand [Patty Jenkins]Wonder Womanhave caught up!
