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Angelina Jolie admitted she nearly cut her nude bathtub scene in her 2015 film By the Sea.
The 48-year-old Hollywood star directed the romantic flick, where she also played her ex Brad Pitt’s on-screen lover. However, she considered getting rid of the full-frontal bath scene because her breasts had been removed.
The Oscar-winning actress had her boobs removed in 2013. She bravely got a double mastectomy after tests revealed she had a high change of developing breast cancer.
The star was seemingly uncomfortable with the full-frontal shot but decided to keep it for the sake of the film. She believed removing it would have been «cheating».
«There were lots of scenes I wanted to change or cut,» she told the New York Times. «I realized it was going to be me naked in that bathtub. But I told myself, put all of that aside.
«Like, you can’t change or cut this scene because you’ve had a mastectomy, or because we’re [Brad Pitt and I] are married and people are going to analyze this or that. That would be cheating.»
The Tomb Raider pin-up admitted directing the saucy flick was tough as she had to orchestrate sex scenes with her then-husband Pitt.
And Jolie’s character Vanessa was «vulnerable». So she had to ensure she was stepping into the character during the intimate scenes.
«The duality — being a director, then having to become a person that vulnerable — would often be hard. There’s a whole reel of me calling ‘cut!’ If a doctor saw it, I’d be put on medication.
«I’m hysterically crying and then calling ‘cut!’ or during a sex scene I am calling ‘cut!’ on Brad. You had to laugh at how bizarre it was.»
Angelina filed for divorce from Brad in September 2016 and the divorce was finalized in 2019. But a bitter dispute over custody began in 2020 and ended with Brad getting joint custody of their five youngest children.
