Even Hollywood royalty ends up on the cutting room floor sometimes.
Legendary actress Jacqueline Bisset, who is also Angelina Jolie’s godmother, was supposed to have a role in one of the Oscar winner’s most iconic films — until it was scrapped.
Bisset, 77, revealed during an interview with People that her scene was cut from Jolie’s 2005 action-comedy “Mr. & Mrs. Smith,” which also starred the humanitarian’s now-ex-husband Brad Pitt.
“The first film I got cut out of was [‘Mr. & Mrs. Smith’] with Angelina,” the British actress said. “Terence Stamp and I played Angelina and Brad Pitt’s bosses. They were very small parts, but it didn’t work [in the film], and then they recast it with apparently two other actors. They said we were too British.”
Bisset also revealed how she came to be the 46-year-old’s godmother, explaining that she was friends with Jolie’s later mother, Marcheline Bertrand.
Bisset met Bertrand when she was co-starring with Jolie’s father, Jon Voight, in the 1975 film “End of the Game.”
“I met her around 1971 when I was making a movie with director Maximilian Schell and Jon Voight, who [Bertrand] was married to at the time,” Bisset said. “We became friends, and she asked me to be her godmother when Angie was in the tummy.”
“I find [Jolie] rather extraordinary,” she continued. “Her whole aura is breathtaking, and it’s amazing how much she’s changed in different stages [of life]. She’s evolved so much.”
Bisset is currently starring in Amazon Prime’s dance school drama “Birds of Paradise.” Despite being in her 70s, she also told People that she has no intention to stop working.
“I get a real buzz from working and I enjoy being around people that I wouldn’t meet otherwise,” she said. “There are lots of things I’d like to do and I’d like to work with lots of people. I like Robert De Niro very much. I don’t know what show I would be put in with him. I’d probably be put in as his mother.”