Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Celebrity Clone: Opposite Look

Angelina Jolie's latest movie is based on the 2003 book A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband Danny Pearl, by Mariane Pearl. Jolie plays Mariane, widow of the Wall Street Journal reporter, who was murdered by terrorists in Pakistan in 2002 while researching a story on the links between "shoe bomber" Richard Reid and Islamic spiritual leader Sheikh Mubarak Gilani. Mariane was pregnant with their child when her husband was kidnapped. The movie was supposed to be filmed in Pakistan but security concerns pushed the filming to the western Indian city of Pune, which was chosen because it resembles Karachi, Pakistan. Jolie said in a weekend statement that she was disappointed not to be filming in Pakistan, "a country I love and have visited three times." She just had to throw in that she's been there "three times." [source]

For the role, Ang had to turn down the hotness a little because Mariane isn't the Lara Croft-ish character Ang is used to. Below is a picture of Mariane and Ang as Mariane:
But instead of turning her into Mariane, they turned her into old school J.Lo. The role was originally rumored to go to Jennifer Aniston really doesn't look like Mariane. ...and for some reason Thandie Newton/Rosie Perez/etc. were completely overlooked

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