After Brad Pitt talked about how ‘sexy’ wife Angelina Jolie was as a director in their new film By The Sea, Angelina has since been quoted saying how weird it was performing love scenes with her husband.
Their first film since Mr and Mrs Smith has been highly anticipated, with Angelina working both in front and behind the camera for their latest venture. And apparently, this has meant that certain love scenes have had a few logistical problems, according to the actress.
When talking to Entertainment Weekly, Angelina said that 'It's the strangest thing in the world to be lying naked in a bathtub with an iPad that's showing you the shot outside, while your husband is at the door and you're directing him to come in and make love to you in front of a bunch of other men with cameras.'
We must admit that does sound very awkward, but Brad was always on hand to try and mediate the situation. 'I couldn't get out of the bathtub to get to the monitor because the director is naked.’ She went on to say; ‘We're artists and want to be free, but Brad - it's his wife. He was on towel duty. He'd hold the towel over me.'
Asides from having her modesty protected by her husband, Brad and Angelina decided to try and find the funny side in their working relationship and keep things professional. 'The only way to get through it was for us to all talk about the absurdity of it and make sure no one was feeling awkward.' Very considerate of you, Ange.
This was the first time that the actress had a nude scene since her double mastectomy after discovering that she had over an 80% chance of suffering from Breast Cancer. The mother of six said that she hoped it would provide hope to other women considering surgery for themselves, 'The surgeries still allow you to be a woman, I hope other women - anyone who is worried about those issues and how [your body] can feel or look - can see that through [the scene]. I'm happy that will be in there if that answers something for them.'
Earlier we wrote...
It's been a while since we've been disarmed by the really, really good looking actor that is Brad Pitt - enter his new V Magazine cover.
But sorry ladies - his interview with the mag is proof he's still head over heels with wife Angelina Jolie.
He speaks frankly about what it's like to have Angelina as a boss on new project By The Sea, and says pretty much everything you secretly wish your partner is saying about you.
"She's decisive, incredibly intuitive, knife-sharp, and might I say, sexy at her post," he says of her direction. "I trust her with my life."
The pair came to be together after their chemistry from *Mr. and Mrs. Smith *spilled over into real life, and while they play a couple in the new movie, he insists it's a far cry from the film that brought them together. "By the Sea deals with that period when the honeymoon is well over and the couple is faced with the banality of every day and the pains of the unplanned."
Though in reality, the couple seem to have everything sussed, and have struck upon the ideal work-life balance by embarking on the project together. "The plan was to make something together, with complete autonomy, and keep it a family affair. We, by our own admission, were overdue. If I'm going to work, I want to work with my wife."