American actress Angelina Jolie said Sunday she no longer recognises her country, voicing concern over threats to free expression while presenting her latest film at Spain\u2019s San Sebasti\u00e1n film festival.<\/p>\n
Her comments come as worries grow over free speech in the United States, after President Donald Trump’s crackdown on critical media and the recent suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel’s show over comments on the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.<\/p>\n
“I love my country, but I don’t at this time recognise my country,” Jolie said when asked if she feared for freedom of speech in the United States.<\/p>\n
“Anything, anywhere, that divides or, of course, limits personal expressions and freedoms and, from anyone, I think is very dangerous,” she added.<\/p>\n
“These are very, very heavy times we’re all living in together.”<\/p>\n
Jolie, 50, was in San Sebastian to promote “Couture”, directed by French filmmaker Alice Winocour, which is competing for the festival\u2019s top prize, the Golden Shell.<\/p>\n
She plays Maxine Walker, an American film director facing divorce and a serious illness while navigating Paris Fashion Week and embarking on a romance with a colleague, played by French actor Louis Garrel.<\/p>\n
The Oscar-winning actress — honoured in 1999 for her role in “Girl, Interrupted” — \u00a0said she related personally to the struggles of her latest character.<\/p>\n
Jolie underwent a double mastectomy in 2013 and later had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to reduce her high genetic risk of cancer, which claimed the lives of her mother and grandmother.<\/p>\n
Visibly moved, she said she thought often of her mother while making the film.<\/p>\n
“I wish she was able to speak more as openly as I have been, and have people respond as graciously as you have, and not feel as alone,” Jolie said.<\/p>\n
“There’s something very particular to women’s cancers, because obviously it affects us, you know, how we feel as women,” she added.<\/p>\n
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