Toronto Film Festival: Angelina Jolie reflects on family cancer history before Couture premiere
TORONTO 鈥 Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie had a strong message about hope and living her best life as she reflected on her family鈥檚 history of cancer before the world premiere of Couture on Sunday.
The Salt and Mr. & Mrs. Smith actor was at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting her film Couture, the story of an American film director navigating the Parisian fashion industry while she is given a serious medical diagnosis and is in the midst of a divorce.
鈥淚鈥檓 50 now. My mother and grandmother by this age were in chemo,鈥 Ms. Jolie said, walking down the red carpet with her co-stars.
鈥淲e all have these things we worry about or people we love. And it鈥檚 either going to make us slow down and almost feel we can鈥檛 move, take a step, or we鈥檙e going to make the most of this life before it鈥檚 over.鈥
Ms. Jolie underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013 after learning she had inherited a high risk of breast cancer and said she hoped her story would inspire other women fighting the life-threatening disease.
She went through with the operation in part to reassure her six children that she would not die young from cancer, as her own mother did at age 56.
鈥淪he has a personal connection to the subject of illness and what that does to a body and being confronted to that. And I believe she talks the best about that,鈥 co-star Ella Rumpf said. 鈥 Reuters
