Brad Pitt And Angelina Jolie Open Up About Their Marriage And Working Together On ‘By The Sea’
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have opened up about their marriage and how the obstacles they’ve faced have made their relationship stronger.
The two have worked together on new film ‘By The Sea’ - the first time they’ve been on screen together since 2005′s ‘Mr and Mrs Smith’ -, which revolves around Brangelina’s character’s troubled marriage.
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Asked whether it was a risk to depict a troubled marriage when theirs is so secure, Angelina explained: “I think, one I’m counting on the audience to know that if it was close to us at all, we could never make this film. It’s because we’re actually very very stable and these aren’t our issues.”
She added: “We were joking at one point. We were saying, like…‘See, this is the beginning. And then this is ten years later. This is what 10 years of marriage will do to you’.”
The wonderful couple spoke about Angelina’s previous admissions that she feels she should be a more ‘conventional’ wife and mother - especially when it comes to cooking.
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The actress admitted: “Every three months I’ll say, 'Honey, I think I should learn how to cook,” to which Brad jokingly responded: “I just humour it.
“But really, she has no business in the kitchen.”
Like every relationship, the couple have faced their fair-share of obstacles, with Angelina undergoing a double mastectomy in 2013 after testing positive for a gene with an 87 percent risk of her developing breast cancer.
In March, she made the brave decision to have her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed after a blood test showed she may have signs of early-stage ovarian cancer - a procedure which was one of her mother’s dying wishes.
Discussing how inspirational his wife is, Brad said: “No question, it’s a scary decision, there’s many things that can go wrong and go many different directions but it was really led by her dedication of ‘this is what I’ve got to do and this is what I’m going to do’.
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“I just remember there was no vanity to my wife’s approach. It was mature. There was an excitement to where - ‘This is our life and we’re gonna make the best of it’. There was a strength in that.
“It was just another one of those things in life that makes you tighter, and she was doing it for the kids, and she was doing it for her family so we could be together which trumped everything and anything.”
Angelina added: “I knew through the surgeries that he was on my side and that this wasn’t something where I was gonna feel less of a woman because my husband wasn’t gonna let that happen.”
