'It felt pretty good' : Angelina Jolie cries and rages in newly unearthed footage from an acting class when she was just 25
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- Published on Saturday, 05 September 2015 10:09
- Written by Daily mail
In today's world of instant celebrity young wannabes can find fame by posting a few YouTube videos.But just two decades ago it still took years of hard work to make it into the public eye.And Angelina Jolie was no different, as a newly unearthed video reveals.Showing the actress in an acting class at the age of 25, she works with two other budding actors as she performs a scene.Working through a series of intense emotions the young actress shows her huge range.'I need to hurt you. I want to hurt you,' she states, with an evil smile playing on her lips, as tears begin to fall.With her naturally bee-stung lips, ruffled hair and make-up free skin, Angelina is an unpolished youthful version of the star we know today.While her acting seems somewhat rough around the edges at times, the talent that would make her a star is obviously there. But when the scene ends it is clear she has yet to develop the poise and ease in the spotlight that would help her become one of the world's biggest stars.Suddenly shy, she mutters her responses to her coach's questions and looks uncomfortable accepting praise.The coach tells Angelina: 'I thought your eyes were wonderful. I especially liked the movement in the scene for you. Something was really connected.'I felt for you a real sense of style. You didn't allow it to just keep going there, you changed it lots of times. You found the humour and you found that and you took the scene in different directions.'As her fellow actors wordily express their satisfaction with the rehearsal, Angelina brushes off the attention.'It felt pretty good, different and funny. It was interesting,' she eventually mumbles.
Slumped in her chair, her long limbs cast out in front of her, Angelina looks as if she is yet to fully feel at ease in her body.As the daughter of two actors, Angelina made her screen debut as a child in 1982's Lookin' To Get Out alongside her father Jon Voight.She then began studying acting while in her early teens but found it hard to pass auditions, often being told she was 'too dark'.After two years at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute Angelina dropped out to study embalming, planning to become a funeral director.She went back to acting after a period away, but found her first paid work as a model, appearing in a series of music videos, before landing a role in 1993's straight-to-video Cyborg 2. Six years later she won an Oscar for Girl, Interrupted, establishing herself as arguably the biggest star of her generation.At 40, mother-of-six Angelina is now a force for good, using her huge fame as an ambassador for the United Nations.
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