Angelina Jolie has usually had little to no problem disrobing for a film if the role required it. But there was one film where her nude scene didn’t come off the way she thought it would. Caught off guard by the shot, Jolie felt she had to warn her husband at the time and her family about the movie.
Jolie already starred in a few movies where she had to bare her physique for the camera. But ironically, one of the nude scenes that might have caught her off guard the most was an animated feature. Beowulf was a 2007 fantasy film about the hero Beowulf who attempts to fight an evil presence in his country.
But unlike other animated features, Jolie’s performance wasn’t just solely about voice acting. Jolie and her co-stars found themselves physically acting out the scenes in the movie. With wet suits on and dots on their faces tracking their movements, their performances would then be inserted into a computer. This would bring to life an animated version of these actors that were all but identical to the original copies.
“I thought, ‘Oh, this is going to be so weird, all of us actors with these dots on our faces, in these wetsuit-type costumes, with no props or sets,’” Jolie once said according to The Morning Call. “But what it really does is strip everything down to the essentials of performing, especially in the scenes between Crispin and me. They were just pure amazing emotion.”
The Salt star had even planned for her kids at the time to see it, but she underestimated how real the performance would look. So when she saw herself on screen, she felt she had to prepare her husband and family for what they saw.
“I got a little shy,” she said. “There were certain moments where I actually called home, just to explain that the fun movie that I had done that was digital animation was, in fact, a little different than we expected. I was really surprised that I felt that exposed.”
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