Speaking in Paris ahead of next week's premiere of a very
different film - romantic action comedy "The Tourist" in which she stars
with Johnny Depp - Jolie said her intention had never been to stoke controversy
with her movie set in wartime Bosnia. Bosnian victims of sexual violence during
the 1990s have written to the United Nations, for which the Oscar-winning
actress is a goodwill ambassador, saying she didn't deserve the position and
did not know enough about the ethnic conflict. "There's one person who has
a gripe," Jolie said.
"The absolute majority of the people,
population, the cast, prime minister, president have been extremely
supportive," she said, adding that 95 percent of the film's cast had lived
through the war. Jolie has described her movie, which is still untitled, as a
love story between a Serbian man and a Bosnian Muslim woman on the eve of the
1992-95 war in which 100,000 people died.
The production team has cut back on
filming plans in Bosnia, however, moving some scenes from Sarajevo to be shot
in Budapest, after a Bosnian minister canceled the filming permit in October,
citing incomplete paperwork. The move came after the minister met with female
victims of the Bosnian war who said they objected to details of the plot.
