NEW ORLEANS – Angelina Jolie believes the decision to eliminate her nude, steamy sex scenes from A Mighty Heart “cost this extremely important, serious movie the audience that it and I deserved.”
A Mighty Heart describes the search for Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and ultimately beheaded in Pakistan five years ago. An ardently sensitive film that one reviewer called “unmooring,” A Mighty Heart flopped at the box office last weekend, finishing in tenth place with a disappointing $3.8-million gross. A small but hyperventilating group of reviewers was not able to jump start A Mighty Heart, which did less than half the business Knocked Up did, even though it was released four weeks ago.
The majority of critics, unfortunately, regarded Ms. Jolie as miscast in the role of Mr. Pearl’s multiracial widow, Mariane.
“Ms. Jolie’s blackface and tight, curly wig were offensive,” wrote The New York Times. “These cheap, theatrical effects could not hide the fact that she is too white to play Mariane Pearl, who is African, Cuban, and Dutch. The role should have gone to someone of Afro-Cuban-Dutch ancestry.”
The Reverend Al Sharpton seconded those opinions.
“Angelina Jolie looked like a bad imitation of a nappy-headed ho,” said Reverend Sharpton. “There are plenty of black or even half-black actresses who would have been more convincing as Mariane Pearl.”
Not surprisingly, Ms. Jolie disagreed.
“Nobody complained when I adopted children who aren’t white,” she said, “or when I did humanitarian work on behalf of people who aren’t white. Why should they complain if I portray a woman who isn’t white? I’ve never considered myself white anyway.”
According to Ms. Jolie, the real reason for A Mighty Heart‘s failure is not her skin tone but the lack of skin in the film.
“A number of tastefully done, full-frontal-nudity sex scenes were cut from the movie in order to avoid an NC-17 rating,” Ms. Jolie revealed. “I told (director Michael) Winterbottom that he was making a mistake because the sex scenes not only made Mariane look great but also made her more believable as a human being. The scenes that were cut, particularly the oral sex bits, would have helped the audience to appreciate her loss.
“Sex is a beautiful, natural part of any relationship,” Ms. Jolie continued. “Sex brought me and Brad Pitt together. In my next important movie I’m not going to let anyone sweep sex under the rug.”
In related news, A Mighty Heart director, Michael Winterbottom, said he “would be open” to the possibility of re-releasing the film with the sex scenes restored “if that would help expose this deserving film and its deserving star to a wider audience.”
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