First Look at Angelina Jolie in the Spy Thriller 'Salt'
Hmmmm, blonde or brunette? I can't decide.
Featured below are the first two photos of Angelina Jolie from Salt, the new spy thriller in which Jolie plays Evelyn A. Salt, a CIA officer who swore an oath to duty, honor, and country. When she is accused by a defector of being a Russian sleeper spy, Salt goes on the run to clear her name and ultimately prove she is a patriot. Using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative, she must elude capture and protect her husband or the world's most powerful forces will erase any trace of her existence. Liev Schreiber stars as Winter, Salt's boss and friend on the Russian desk at the CIA, and Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Peabody, a CIA counter-intelligence officer.
Among the many different looks she has in the film are a soft-looking, all-business blonde and a raven-haired femme fatale who easily could be concealing a dagger or a gun. Which is the real Salt? That's what filmmakers say is the central mystery.
The filmmaker we are discussing is Phillip Noyce (Clear and Present Danger) and the film at one time was set up with Tom Cruise in the starring role, but the story was changed for a female character and the Cruise-Jolie switch took place.
As for the change, producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura says it wasn't simply a matter of changing the name and going from "he" to "she". He told USA Today, "I had no idea how complex it would be. We had to rethink the whole notion of how a man vs. a woman operates in the business world, in personal relationship and in friendships."
Columbia Pictures is expected to release the film in 2010. You can get a much larger look at the two images right here.
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looks good
Sounds cool.
Why decide, she can bring both wigs.
I'm getting a Jen Garner/Alias-vibe here, but blonde or brunette, she's still far too skinny to play an action woman! Anyone else wince at the scene in Wanted when she gets out of the tub and is all gristle and no butt?
@kassiopeia: Good call, I didn't think of that while writing it up, but it definitely fits. I actually enjoyed Alias despite the fact a wig was considered a disguise.
I'll take my Angelina any which way she comes. She was always lean – check out her skinny arms in all her action movies – all the way back to the Croft movies where she gained 10-20 lbs (?) from training & special diets to get muscle mass.
No other actress can do her stunts, handle guns, ride motorcycles & jetskis, swim, ride horses & shoot, parachute into a jeep, fly a plane, etc. etc. etc. No other actress can open an action movie.
It'd be interesting to compare the Charlie's Angels girls' weights, body measurements and BMIs then to see how much of this is public perception hyped by the tabloids and how much is realiity.
I'm on board.