Angelina Jolie is very shy when speaking French

In Alice Winocour’s Couture, Angelina Jolie acts as Maxine, who has come to Paris to shoot a lavish short while getting divorced and learning of a breast cancer diagnosis.

In this movie, Angelina has to learn French but she admitted that she is very shy when it comes to speaking French. 

She told Deadline, "I speak very little and super shy. I understand more than I speak. I have continued some of my classes, but I’m still super shy. In the months leading up, we did classes and not just for the lines, but to just be speaking and then in my ADR, I was better."

"My French improved. I did my own dubbing".

"When something’s well-written, whether it’s in another language or in English, if it’s well-written, it just comes forward easily."

Angelina Jolie cried for three days straight when her daughter Zahara returned to university

Angelina Jolie shared that her daughter Zahara returned to university and an ET interviewer asked how she felt about it. Jolie shared that she cried for three days straight.

Then she tells, "It changes. You know. The great thing is she's gonna return even more of a woman. Even more of a mind. Even more of a thinker".

"You're gonna learn so much in this extraordinary person she's gonna become. She's her own person."

"My daughter in her last year of university and I have the great gift of being able to learn from her and hear what she's doing and live vicariously and it's amazing".

Angelina Jolie wore her late mom's necklace during filming "Couture"

Angelina Jolie wore her late mom's necklace during filming "Couture". Jolie's mother Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007. Her aunt and grandmother also died of the disease.

During an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival, Jolie became emotional when she shared that she wore her late mom's necklace while filming Couture" and then she tells what it means to her to wear it in the scenes.

She said, "I think it was hard, but it was also a way of communicating with her, you know and feeling very connected to all."

"So many people around the world. It is what unites us. We are in many ways, we're not alone in grief and people should remember that we isolate ourselves at times when we're grieving."

"We don't ask for help. We don't communicate when we're losing someone. We don't know how as much to connect to each other. And yet, it's the one thing we all are very united in loss and grief. And so, I felt very fortunate to be able to share with this crew and now with audiences which I hope for me, it's probably one of the intimate films I've ever done speaking to the audience and connecting to the audience".

Angelina Jolie talks about her character in Couture

Angelina Jolie talks about her character in Couture. 

She told E! News's Francesca Amiker when she was at the premiere of Couture at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, "She wears the same big black jacket through the entire movie. I think I'm the only one not dressed in fashion.”

"My character was slightly in a different world of horror movies, directing and life and death."

Then she shared that this movie is different than her other movies, she explained, "I think there’s a softness to this film—a connection to other women—that was different from something I’ve done before".

"I haven’t done a film so female, and we also had wonderful men in this film, but it’s very female and very united with females from different parts of the world."

"We all are very different and go through different experiences. But in the end, we also are more similar than we're not."

The reason why Angelina Jolie met with President Obama at the White House

The reason why Angelina Jolie met with President Obama at the White House (2012). That time Jolie was there with then husband Brad Pitt to talk about the plight of women caught up in war zones—such as the one depicted in her film The Land of Blood and Honey—and ways in which the United States can contribute to efforts aimed at preventing mass violence against civilians in unstable regions.

White House spokeswoman Jamie Smith said, "President Obama spoke with Ms. Jolie about her work to raise the profile of preventing mass atrocities and combating sexual violence against women".

White House advisers Samantha Powers, Valerie Jarrett and Bill Daley were also present for Jolie and Pitt's meeting in the Oval Office.

Angelina Jolie would work again with Clint Eastwood, but not Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio

Angelina Jolie worked with Clint Eastwood for the 2008 movie, Changeling and would like to work with him again if there is a chance.

In 2008, Jolie talked about working with Clint Eastwood at the Hollywood Film Festival Gala, “There are some people in this business that are icons, and we often wonder if, when we meet them, they’ll live up to what we imagine them to be and Clint Eastwood in person is even better … Clint is what every great director should be. He is a great leader. And I certainly would follow him anywhere.”

Tom Hanks and Leonardo DiCaprio will never work with Clint Eastwood. Tom Hanks shared, “You certainly don’t want one of those Eastwood looks. He treats his actors like horses because when he did the 60s series Rawhide, the director would shout ‘Action!’ and all the horses bolted. So when he’s in charge, he says in a really quiet soft voice, ‘All right, go ahead,’ and instead of shouting, ‘Cut!’ he says, ‘That’s enough of that.’ It’s intimidating as hell!”.

Leonardo DiCaprio worked with Clint Eastwood for 2011 movie,  "J. Edgar". He wanted Clint Eastwood to re-shoot a scene, but the director had already wrapped and declined the request."

Angelina Jolie has no plans to release a tell-all memoir, despite report

Angelina Jolie has no plans to release a tell-all memoir, despite report.

A source tells PEOPLE that this is not true and added, "There is no way she would do this".

The source said she hasn’t agreed to include anything about her personal life in a book.

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt split in 2016. They have six kids together.