ANGELINA JOLIE got a kick out of doing the stunts for new film Salt – even though she nearly ended up in hospital.
The adrenaline junkie star performed tricks including jumping from a motorway bridge on to a speeding truck and diving from a helicopter as agent Evelyn Salt.
But she was left scarred and needing medical treatment when she was told to burst through a door, roll over the ground and fire a gun.
Angelina, 35, says: “It was first thing in the morning and I thought ‘This is a piece of cake.’ So I jumped inside, rolled over and smashed into a ledge.
“I got this gash between my eyebrows, just under an inch long.
“The nurse put gauze on but I was pretty dizzy and everyone was getting paranoid about it. I was feeling nauseous too and I had trouble walking for a few seconds.
“I had all these weird signs of a concussion so they sent me for an MRI scan. That was all clear so they put some of those tiny stitches over it and bandaged me up. I went back to work later that same day.
“Towards the end of the film my character has so much blood and cuts, it blended in – just one more thing on my face. And it’s left a tiny scar.
“You pick up scars on your body over the years and I don’t mind them. It’s character and it’s part of life.” Angelina’s CIA character goes on the run after being accused of being a spy. The action thriller was originally for a male star but Angelina turned it on its head as a female super-spy.
“In so many spy films, women are femmes fatales,” she says. “We wanted to avoid that. My character doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. It’s the roughest I’ve looked. When we fight it gets ugly. Somebody breaks my nose. She kicks, she uses her elbows, she fights to survive.”
But Angelina reckons she can get carried away, putting herself at risk.
She says: “Doing a few stunts is a great part of the job – it’s wonderful therapy. I wasn’t scared.
“But I am fearless to the point of stupidity sometimes. Maybe I should have a bit more fear.”
The beauty is one half of Hollywood’s premier power couple with partner Brad Pitt, 46. But she admits she has to work at keeping the relationship fresh.
After winning a case against a newspaper which said their relationship was on the rocks, Angelina stresses how happy they are.
“We schedule date nights,” she laughs. “You have to with children.
“We’ll ask a babysitter to spend the night so we can go out but sometimes we just go to another part of the house. I feel fortunate to have a relationship where I feel safe enough to imagine growing old together.”
The couple’s six kids – adopted Maddox, nine, Pax, six, and Zahara, five, and their biological children, two-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne and daughter Shiloh, four – have also been in the headlines, thanks to Shiloh’s fondness for dressing like a boy.
But Angelina insists she is just letting her girl be herself.
“It’s not my choice,” she says. “I have a very strong-willed four-year-old who tells me what she wants to be and I let her. I think kids should express themselves.”
And it’s clear that the couple are devoted to their kids.
Brad was supposed to have a small role in Salt but it never happened.
“He was watching the kids that day and that’s always more important,” says Angelina. “They take priority.”
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