Jolie: I waited until Maddox was ready to make a film about Cambodia
Maddox Jolie-Pitt was an executive producer on First They Killed My Father.
Angelina Jolie has said she waited until her adopted son was ready for them to make a film about his home country, Cambodia, together.
The Hollywood star’s 16-year-old son Maddox Jolie-Pitt was an executive producer on First They Killed My Father, which Jolie directed.
The film is adapted from Loung Ung’s memoir and centres on her childhood under the brutal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia.
“I told him, ‘Son, one day you’ll be ready. You will tell me when it’s time to go deeply into your country. But I need your help. You’ll have to work and you’ll have to be there every day with me.’
“And one day he said, ‘I’m ready’.”
Mother-of-six Jolie said Maddox has known Ung all his life.
“He went deep into the research and into the edit. He was great,” she said.
Jolie adopted Maddox from Cambodia in 2002.
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