"Changeling" Brings Out the Big Guns at the New York Film Festival

October 06 12:05:02 PM, Yahoo News

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Fashion Wire Daily - Clint Eastwood is no fool. He knew that the moment he cast Angelina Jolie as the woman to play the single mother of a kidnapped child in his new fact-based period drama "Changeling" that she would bring more than just her acting talents to the project. She and partner Brad Pitt are, after all, the most famous celebrity pair on the planet, so where Angelina and Brad go, publicity follows.

That was the case Saturday night as Hollywood's three biggest guns, Eastwood, Jolie and Pitt, took to the red carpet in New York for the premiere of "Changeling" as the gala centerpiece of the New York Film Festival.

Jolie's popularity is a fact that Eastwood easily admitted to influencing him in her casting, at an earlier press conference promoting the film. And the other reason Eastwood, who directs the film, but does not appear, chose Academy Award winner Jolie for his protagonist is her obvious acting talent, for "Changeling" opens in late October, just in time to join the race for awards season recognition.

"I always thought of her as a very interesting actress, a very good actress," Eastwood explained. "And then in recent years she's had so much publicity, being on the cover of every possible publication in the world, you all of a sudden start taking it for granted because an awful lot of people can get on magazines. But that doesn't mean they're talented. But in her case she's really talented and she's the most prepared actress, or is certainly as prepared as any actress I've worked with. Of course, she does have the most striking face that one could imagine."

And the most striking figure as well, for less than three months after giving birth to twins, Jolie showed off a slim-again figure in a black strapless sweetheart sheath by Atelier Versace, while Pitt wore a simple dark suit as he escorted her in their first official outing since the twins were born in July. Now the mother of six children, Jolie certainly seems to have succeeded in combining motherhood and career successfully.

As she told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival back in May, it is exactly that reality that motivated her to take on the role in "Changeling," the fact-based tale set in Los Angeles during the 1920's that focuses on a single mother's worst nightmare, the disappearance of her son.

"To lose a child, I can't imagine anything worse, especially not knowing the fate of that child," she said, explaining how she immersed herself in a character's life that is so seemingly different than her own. "The period was very interesting to me, that she was a woman in the Twenties. As a very modern and outspoken woman myself, I knew that was going to be a challenge. So much of it is being a mother, and imagining if this was happening to me, what my pain and frustration would be."

Happily, there wasn't an iota of pain or frustration in Angelina Jolie's world on Saturday night, just Brad Pitt and Clint Eastwood flanking her on the red carpet.

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