<p id=”par-1_42″><a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/tag/angelina-jolie/”>Angelina Jolie</a> has done a variety of film genres including action, <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/angelina-jolie-found-action-films-therapeutic.html/”>which she considered therapy</a>, and drama. But a comedy was one genre that the actor was seldom seen in. This was mostly because Jolie naturally gravitated towards darker, more serious features.</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-angelina-jolie-once-shared-what-was-bringing-the-comedy-out-of-her”>Angelina Jolie once shared what was bringing the comedy out of her</h2>
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<p id=”par-2_108″>Jolie isn’t a complete stranger to comedy. She’s done a few movies that have a considerable amount of humor in them. Additionally, she also starred in <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/will-smith-re-did-entire-performance-for-shark-tale-son-criticized-acting.html/”>Will Smith’s animated picture <em>Shark Tale</em></a>, which also leaned heavily into comedy. But she’s seldom done a pure, lighthearted movie whose sole purpose was to make its viewers laugh. The closest she came to a romcom was the movie <em>Life Or Something Like It</em>. There, Jolie played a reporter who was told when she’d die, so even that film had a dark undertone to it. In a 2005 interview with <a href=”https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna8162179″>NBC News</a>, Jolie explained why she’d avoided comedies for so long.</p>
<p id=”par-3_74″>“I mean, I guess we’re just — for a long time, I was always much more comfortable in darker roles, in pain or quieter person and it takes a lot for me to feel that I have something to contribute in a light way, but I wouldn’t assume, yeah, I’m that fun friend that everybody feels at ease with, you know? And I would love to think I had more of that,” she said.</p>
<p id=”par-4_21″>But Jolie became more open to dipping her toe in the genre. Especially <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/angelina-jolie-first-became-happy-way-looked-becoming-mother.html/”>after becoming a mom</a> for the first time.</p>
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<p id=”par-5_26″><em>“</em>Well, I think having a kid, you know what I mean, he’s really made me funny. So I guess he fixed that for me,” she said.</p>
<p id=”par-6_44″>Jolie still hasn’t tried her hand at a comedy film to this day, but she recently revealed she’s still entertaining the possibility. In an interview with <em>Deadline</em> (via <a href=”https://www.backstage.com/magazine/article/angelina-jolie-maria-interview-photoshoot-78297/”>Backstage</a>), Jolie went into a little more detail about why she found comedy films so daunting.</p>
<p id=”par-7_91″>“There’s a responsibility to the audience,” she said. “There’s a part of me as an artist, of course, that wants to explore every different type of storytelling medium for myself. But I’m also very conscious of where I seem to connect and where maybe somebody else would be better. For comedy, I’m not sure I could entertain an audience and make them laugh and be what they need me to be. It’s [about] the exchange—it’s less about what I want to do and more [about] where an audience feels you’re effective.”</p>
<h2 class=”wp-block-heading” id=”h-angelina-jolie-considered-this-movie-kind-of-like-a-rom-com”>Angelina Jolie considered this movie kind of like a rom-com</h2>
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<p id=”par-8_54″>There was one surprising feature that Jolie felt had a lot of rom-com elements to it. She was cast as the star in <em>Maleficent</em>, which made her <a href=”https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/angelina-jolie-33-million-maleficent-salary-made-highest-paid-female-actor-2013.html/”>the highest paid female actor</a> at one point. Jolie felt that playing the iconic character gave her a taste of what doing a romcom could be like.</p>
<p id=”par-9_38″>“I think <em>Maleficent</em> was the closest I got, I thought she was in love with Diaval,” she said. “I thought it was a bit of a rom-com; I may have been on my own there,” she once told <a href=”https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBrR8V7vqQG/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D”>E! News</a>.</p>
<p id=”par-10_32″><em>Mr. and Mrs. Smith </em>also helped Jolie tap into what hidden comedic gifts she might have. Although Jolie asserted that she wasn’t all that confident in her comedic timing in the film.</p>
<p id=”par-11_33″>“I was really uncomfortable and I was really unsure of myself, because I’ve never really done one. But everybody on this panel made me feel comfortable. I got scared,” she once told <a href=”https://www.ign.com/articles/2005/06/09/interview-brad-pitt-and-angelina-jolie”>IGN</a>.</p>