The duo also talks about the possibility of making a comedy together. In “Without Blood,” written and directed by Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek plays Nina, a woman who spends her adult life looking for the three men responsible for the wartime murder of her father and brother when she was just a child. In two of the cases, her revenge is fatal.
But then she meets the third accomplice, Tito (Demián Bichir), now a clerk in a newspaper kiosk at a train station. The movie is in many ways a two-hander featuring Nina and Tito talking over drinks with flashback scenes chronicling both of their sometimes harrowing lives. I thought she was just producing.
I’m like, ‘Oh no, I don’t want to suffer like that. I don’t want to.’ And then she started talking to me about the importance of the piece. And then you have to understand that Angelina is an extraordinary director.” “Without Blood” is an adaptation of Italian writer Alessandro Baricco’s novella of the same name.
Like the book, the movie doesn’t specify the time or the location where the story takes place, nor identify the war at the center of the story. The characters speak English and Spanish. Of course, sometimes it doesn’t give you what you think you’re looking for or doesn’t heal those.” This isn’t the first time Jolie has made a film about war and conflict.
Her directorial debut was the Bosnian war drama “In the Land of Blood and Money” in 2011. The life of Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung under the rule of the Khmer Rouge was the subject of “First They Killed My Father” in 2017. We all ended up spending a lot of time talking about our pain, talking about our losses, our traumas.
Obviously, community can be very, very healing.” Jolie and Hayek Pinault first worked together five years ago when they co-starred in the Marvel movie “Eternals.” Next, Jolie will serve as a producer on Hayek Pinault’s directorial debut, “Arena,” an epic romantic adventure that the “Frida” star also wrote. It’s a really good, enriching and artistic relationship. It’s such a gift.” I asked Jolie if she’s ever been tempted to direct lighter material like a comedy.
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