In an interview with BBC Information, the actress opened up about working along with her sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21, on the Netflix drama, Maria, revealing that her sons witnessed her expressing “rather a lot” of “ache” for the primary time.

Jolie, 49, starred because the titular character within the movie, portraying Greek opera singer Maria Callas, and Maddox and Pax had been on set to see their mother’s portrayal firsthand as they labored as manufacturing assistants.

“The character [Callas] has lots of ache and so they’ve after all seen me undergo lots of issues, however they hadn’t skilled me expressing lots of the ache that normally a mother or father hides from a baby,” Jolie recalled.

“In order that they had been there to witness a few of that, however then we might hug or they might convey me cups of tea,” she continued.

The Oscar winner stated that the expertise of getting her youngsters see her in “ache” in her function was a “new manner” for her to be candid along with her children about her emotions “in an excellent better manner.”

Whereas talking with BBC Information, Maria director Pablo Larraín stated Maddox and Pax had been “very busy” on set, praising Jolie’s children as “good professionals.”

Jolie added that her eldest even recorded her rehearsing her singing, “so he was with me in my early horrible days,” she advised the outlet.

“It is at all times good on your youngsters to observe your mum not do one thing simply, however swear and battle and fail and must strive once more,” she stated. “In order that’s an necessary and delightful factor.”

Jolie — who shares Maddox and Pax together with Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, with ex Brad Pitt — beforehand shared in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that her eldest sons watched her undergo “heavy instances” whereas taking pictures Maria, revealing that they by no means “heard me cry” like she did on the set of the movie.

“I’ve been a mother or father for 23 years. Essentially the most lovely factor about being a mother or father is that you’re not the middle of your life,” she advised the outlet in August. “So you might be leaving set, targeted on one thing for somebody. That is your actual life. Your actual world. And that at all times is almost all of who you might be.”

“I’ve by no means had a set the place my household shouldn’t be allowed to be there as a result of I’m focusing — I’m not that particular person. You possibly can climb throughout me or go to,” she continued, including that it “actually meant rather a lot” to her that Maddox and Pax had been on set along with her.

Nevertheless, Jolie added that “most likely one of many extra intense issues” was that they noticed her “expressing [so] a lot ache.”

“You actually attempt to disguise out of your youngsters how a lot ache and unhappiness you carry. And so for them to be with you once you’re expressing it at such a degree, I believe it was the primary time they ever heard me cry like that,” she stated, earlier than jokingly including, “That’s normally for the bathe.”