Overview

• During a Q&A after the Toronto premiere of Couture, Jolie teared up and recalled her mother saying people only asked about the illness, urging others to ask about the rest of a patient’s life.
• On the red carpet, she noted, “I’m 50 now; my mother and grandmother at this age were in chemo,” linking her family history to the film’s subject.
• Jolie referenced her preventive surgeries and ongoing checkups, encouraging women with familial risk to get mammograms and other tests.
• Couture, written and directed by Alice Winocour, follows a film director confronting a breast cancer diagnosis while navigating personal and professional pressures in Paris.
• Winocour said Jolie immediately felt a personal connection to the story because of the losses in her family and her own risk-reducing medical decisions.