Angelina Jolie in Vanity Fair: On Her Directorial Debυt and Raising Shiloh

It took shape during her downtime, when the kids were asleep, and became a career-altering passion. Now, as Angelina Jolie’s screenwriting and feature directorial debut, <em>In the Land of Blood and Honey</em>, hits theaters, the 36-year-old star is feeling more vulnerable than ever before. On Malta, Jolie tells Rich Cohen how a tale of love and war in 1990s Bosnia took her far outside her comfort zone—and why Brad Pitt thinks it will make her a nightmare.

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Of her actors, all from the Balkans, Jolie says, “It’s their story. It was important that they were willing to do it. If none of them were willing, I wouldn’t have made it.”

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