In a trailer for her upcoming French film, Couture, Angelina Jolie plays an American filmmaker who receives a breast cancer diagnosis. The film promises to be a moving and emotional story.
The 50-year-old actress stars as Maxine Walker, a woman who travels to Paris to film a promotional video. Though she doesn’t care for the fashion world, Maxine needs the money to support herself and her teenage daughter while navigating a divorce and preparing for her next movie role.
Soon after Maxine arrives, she receives a devastating breast cancer diagnosis. The film then explores how this impacts her relationship with her body and sense of self.
Angelina shared that she connected with the role of Maxine because Maxine’s determination to not let her breast cancer define her resonated with her own mother’s experience battling illness.
Angelina Jolie’s mother, Marcheline Bertrand, passed away in 2007 at 56 years old after fighting ovarian and breast cancer for eight years.
Scenes from the movie’s trailer reveal Angelina crying while playing the character of Maxine.
The trailer suggests a romantic connection will develop between Maxine and the film’s cinematographer, portrayed by French actress Louise Garrel.
Alice Winocour’s film also follows the stories of two women Maxine encounters at work: Angèle, a seasoned makeup artist who’s writing a novel based on her experiences, and Ada, an 18-year-old student from Nairobi, Kenya, who is new to the modeling world.
In Alice’s new drama, a well-known Hollywood star appears with Louis Garrel, Ella Rumpf, Anyier Anei, and Garance Marillier. Angelina also produced the film.
Angelina described the movie as a deeply meaningful and personal story, and it’s scheduled to come out in France in February 2026.
She also shared her long-standing admiration for Alice’s work, particularly her original way of tackling difficult subjects like illness, and praised her sensitive and careful handling of these topics.
Angelina pointed out that movies focusing on women’s hardships, particularly those involving cancer, frequently emphasize sadness and finality, instead of celebrating life.
She continued, saying that while difficulties, sickness, and suffering are inevitable in life, it’s our response to them that truly counts.
My mother struggled with illness for a long time. One evening, when someone asked about her chemotherapy treatment, she got upset and told me she’d rather discuss something different. She felt like the sickness was starting to define who she was.
What I love about this film isn’t just the story of someone dealing with illness, but its beautiful portrayal of life itself. That hopeful and bright outlook really resonated with me and inspired me to take on the role.
After learning she had a gene that greatly raised her risk of developing breast cancer, Angelina had a preventative double mastectomy in May 2013, followed by reconstructive surgery.
A change in her BRCA1 gene meant this mother of six had an 87% chance of developing breast cancer and a 50% chance of developing ovarian cancer.
In March 2015, she proactively had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her risk of ovarian cancer.
As someone who’s seen a lot of life, I can tell you loss shapes you. I experienced a deep pain when I lost my mother, Marcheline, back in 2007. Sadly, cancer also took my grandmother and aunt, and those losses have stayed with me. It really puts things into perspective.
In an interview last month, Angelina called for making BRCA screenings available to every woman.
Women deserve to be in control of their healthcare and have the resources to make smart decisions. This includes making genetic testing and screenings easily available and affordable, especially for those with health concerns or a family history of disease.
‘When I shared my experience in 2013, it was to encourage informed choices,’ she added.
Everyone deserves to make their own healthcare choices, and women especially need the information and support to do so. Getting screened and receiving care shouldn’t be limited by how much money a person has or where they live.
Angelina Jolie, known for her role in Maleficent, wrote a detailed article for The New York Times about her choice to have her fallopian tubes removed. The piece, titled “Angelina Jolie Pitt: Diary Of A Surgery,” explains her reasons for the procedure.
Angelina had been considering surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes for some time, but a phone call from her doctor sped up the process, making it an immediate priority.
Angelina’s doctor found some unusual results in her blood test related to a protein called CA-125, which is often used to track ovarian cancer. The doctor recommended she consult with her surgeon, the same one who cared for her mother.
She described feeling what many women experience in similar situations. She focused on staying calm and positive, reassuring herself that she expected to live a long life and watch her children and grandchildren grow up.
She decided to keep her uterus because uterine cancer doesn’t run in her family.
Angelina has often discussed the deep sadness she felt after her mother passed away. This pain motivated her to undergo a preventative double mastectomy, hoping to spare her own children the heartache she experienced.
Just under two weeks after Angelina announced her own mastectomy, her aunt, Debbie Martin, passed away from breast cancer at the age of 61.
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