Being Beowulf’s mom made Angelina bashful
When you see Angelina Jolie’s character in the film “Beowulf” rise nude from out of a pool of water the first thing that your eyes might look at might not be what you would expect. For her role as the mother of Beowulf the world’s most beautiful woman was scanned into a computer and then turned into a hybrid of a seductive woman and a lizard creature complete with a roving tail.
“I got a little shy. I really wasn’t expecting it to feel as real or for as much of me to come out as it did, especially with the type of character I play,” explains the 32-year-old actress. “It was funny at first, but then there were moments where I felt actually shy and called home to explain that the kind of fun movie that I did with digital animation was … a little different than expected. I was really surprised that I felt that exposed.”
And the digital wizards did more than just give Angelina a tail: they also took away a baby bump. “I was actually three months pregnant at the time,” she says. “You wouldn’t know it because we did the mapping of my body before.”