No, her biggest challenge was being too nice.
“My character is not maternal by nature,” Jolie tells EW with a laugh.
It took me a little bit to treat [Little] badly, but I got there!"
Angelina Jolie in ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’.Warner Bros. Pictures
That’s really the truth of it."
“I wanted to be in this world with him.”
Together, they’re isolated in the wild, trapped between man and Mother Nature.
Finn Little and Angelina Jolie in ‘Those Who Wish Me Dead’.Emerson Miller/Warner Bros.
It pulls you out of yourself."
“It was like, you built this massive thing just to burn it down!”
“I get pretty beaten up through this.”
But she still took the time to impart some of her action-heroine wisdom upon her younger costar.
“She sort of walked me through it and made sure I was safe,” Little says.
“She went out of her way to make me feel really accepted.”
Sometimes those mom instincts just can’t be stifled.
