NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. actress Angelina Jolie says she didn't mind playing a woman who ages 20 years in Robert De Niro's new CIA drama, "The Good Shepherd."
"My mom is aging gracefully and if I'm anything like my mother ... She's lovely," the 31-year-old actress said in New York.
"I love age on a face," she added. "I love to age in movies. I love to see my face old in different ways. There's something very comforting about feeling yourself as an older woman. When you get to that point, you would have earned so many different things and be rooted in so many ways."
Jolie wore yellow-tinged contact lenses and had stained teeth to convey how not only time, but circumstances affected Clover, the neglected, hard-drinking wife of a CIA agent.
"Hopefully, I will not break apart as she did," Jolie said. "I had the alcohol age (in the movie,) and if you look closely at her, there were some broken capillaries and a lot of yellow. Hopefully, I won't have to look in a mirror and look like this. This is what I will look like if I start drinking."
