The couple who did their first movie together in 10 years
praised each other in a new interview to promote the
movie, By The Sea, written and directed by Jolie.
Speaking about her decision to undergo preventative
double mastectomy in 2013, and the surgery to remove
her ovaries earlier this year, Brad said;
'There was no vanity to my wife's approach,' the
51-year-old said. 'It was mature. 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.'
Angelina, 40, went on to discuss how her mother had a
secret pact with her surgeon.
'We had some of the same nurses, some of the
same doctors,' she told interviewer, Tom Brokaw.
"So, the doctor that did my ovary surgery was my
mother's doctor. And apparently my mother had
said to her, "Promise me you will take Angie's
ovaries out." So when we kind of got together, we
both had a big cry, and she said, "I promised
your mother, and I gotta do this."
"We can't say what the whole film is about, but a
lot of the film was when I went to visit my mom
in the hospital, when she found out she had
cancer the first time, she was gonna have her
ovaries removed, (and) she was very upset,
feeling like... they're taking out her parts that
were female, and there was a woman down the
hall who was wailing. I later found out it was a
young woman who had not had children yet, and
that put everything into perspective.'
'Every woman is different when they go through
menopause, and...I didn't know emotionally how I
would feel,' the star admitted. 'I knew the breast
would be a bigger surgery and physically
changing. The ovaries is more, your hormones
changing and your emotions changing, but it's
different. You feel different.'
'She was doing it for the kids,' the actor said
proudly of his wife, 'and she was doing it for her
family so we could be together.'
Angelina Jolie said her health experience strengthened
their marriage.
'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. To face these
issues together and speak about them and talk
about what it is to be human, I think can be a
beautiful thing.'
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