1 of 4 | Angelina Jolie attends the world premiere of "Couture" during the Toronto International Film Festival at the Princess of Wales Theatre in 2025. File Photo by Chris Chew/UPI | License Photo
NEW YORK, June 26 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie says her late mother Marcheline Bertrand was a tremendous inspiration for her performance in the film, Couture.
Opening in theaters Friday, Couture follows Maxine (Jolie), an American filmmaker working the assignment of a lifetime at Paris Fashion Week and dealing with a divorce back home when she learns she has aggressive breast cancer.
"My mom told me once, when she'd been living with it a few years, she said, 'All anybody ever asks me about is cancer,'" Jolie, 51, told UPI in a recent Zoom interview.
"She stopped getting asked, was she writing? Was she reading?" the actress recalled. [Cancer] became too much of an identity."
