Photo: ReutersAngelina Jolie responded to growing backlash over the casting process for her latest film, saying she was "upset" that an improvised scene during auditions had been misconstrued as taking real money away from impoverished children. Jolie, a special envoy for the United Nations refugee agency, told Vanity Fair she looked for her lead star in orphanages, circuses and slum schools. "The suggestion that real money was taken from a child during an audition is false and upsetting. Users on social media slammed Jolie's casting game as cruel and exploiting impoverished children. Vanity Fair reporter Evgenia Peretz called the casting game "disturbing in its realism" in the profile, while Kayla Cobb at pop culture website Decider.com compared the game to a psychological thriller.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 01, 2017 23:15 UTC