Overview

• Jolie grew emotional during the Sept. 7 world premiere Q&A in Toronto, urging people to treat those facing illness as whole individuals and to ask about the rest of their lives.
• She stars as Maxine Walker, a filmmaker commissioned for a Paris Fashion Week project who receives an aggressive breast cancer diagnosis while navigating divorce and motherhood.
• Jolie’s connection to the story stems from her 2013 preventive double mastectomy after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene and from the loss of her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, to cancer.
• Director Alice Winocour said Jolie immersed herself in the role, learning French and wearing her late mother’s necklace on set when she felt vulnerable.
• Production secured rare access to film inside Chanel’s Paris showroom and atelier, and a wider release date has not yet been announced.