Angelina Jolie has been celebrated for her humanitarian work as much as she has for her film career, but a Vanity Fair profile on her this week has people questioning both.
In the wide-ranging profile published Wednesday, Jolie spoke of the process of casting the lead role for her latest film, “First They Killed My Father,” based on a true story about the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia, which was shot entirely in the Southeast Asian country. Jolie revealed that casting directors found the child actor by playing a “game” that involved placing money in front of children from “orphanages, circuses and slum schools,” asking them what they needed the money for ― then taking the money away from them to elicit a reaction.
“Srey Moch was the only child that stared at the money for a very, very long time,” Jolie, a United Nations special envoy for refugees since 2012, told the magazine. “When she was forced to give it back, she became overwhelmed with emotion. All these different things came flooding back.”
The girl told the directors that the money was for a “nice funeral” for her grandfather who had died.
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