How
Angelina
Jolie
Started
Getting
Into
Character

At
the
start
of
rehearsals, “they
were
putting
us
together
and
trying
outfits
on
us,
seeing
how
we
look
as
a
couple,”
Jolie

told

Vogue,
about
a
week
after
she
met
Pitt.
“It’s
always
so
silly;
you
don’t
know
somebody
and
in
three
days
you’re
going
to
be
‘married.’
But
he’s
lovely,
Brad
Pitt.
He’s
very
sweet.”

She
described

Mr.
&
Mrs.
Smith
as
“a
study
in
marriage
and
how
well
you
know
your
partner.
There’s
everything
from
couples
therapy
to
arguing
about
the
drapes,
and
you
think
they’re
having
affairs,
and
then
you
slowly
discover
that
the
reason
they’re
having
problems
is
because
they
have
very
different
lives
and
have
secrets
from
each
other.”

At
the
time,
Pitt
had
been
married
to

Jennifer
Aniston
since
2000
and
Jolie
was
twice-divorced,
from

Jonny
Lee
Miller
in
1999
and

Billy
Bob
Thornton
in
2003,
each
after
about
three
years
of
marriage.

“My
opinion
of
marriage
comes
from
a
very
cynical
place,”
Jolie
explained.
“Do
you
want
to
kill
your
spouse?
For
me,
that’s
a
serious
question.
And
Brad
Pitt
comes
from
a
place
of:
What
a
funny
idea,
to
kill
the
person
you’re
married
to,
because
he
has
a
happy
marriage.
So
we’re
actually
a
very
funny
combination.”

She
drew
from
her
past
to
inform
her
character.
“For
me,
it
was
a
lot
of
thinking
about
old
relationships
I
had—marriages
I
had,”
she
told EW before
the
movie
came
out
in
June
2005, “and
thinking,
Oh,
that’s
the
point
where
I
wanted
to
kill
that
person.”