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Angelina Jolie had to get vulnerable to portray a troubled opera singer for the film Maria — and her sons witnessed her emotional transformation while working on set.
According to the BBC, Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21 — Jolie's eldest boys — got jobs as production assistants while she channeled Maria Callas in her latest movie, which hit theaters in November and is now streaming on Netflix.
"They've seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn't experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child," Jolie revealed in an interview with the network.
Brad Pitt's ex, who is also mom to Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and 16-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, found that the process provided her "a new" and "even greater way" to give her children a candid glimpse of her inner life.
"They were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea," she said of her boys adjusting well to what could have been an uncomfortable situation.
Jolie, 49, told The Hollywood Reporter last summer that she would never bar her family from coming to her sets. "I'm not that person," she noted, explaining that, in the past, her children were always welcome to "climb all over me or visit."
She also reflected on Maddox and Pax working on the new film, saying that their presence "really meant a lot" to her.
And of acting in emotional scenes, she added that "probably one of the more intense things was that usually when I'm expressing that much pain, it's not in front of my children."
"You really try to hide from your children how much pain and sadness you carry," she continued, then joked: "That's usually for the shower."
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