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Angelina Jolie is showing skin and ink!
The 50-year-old actress attended the red carpet premiere of her new film Couture on Saturday, October 18th in Rome, Italy.
Jolie wore a backless gown with a cape, showing off her huge back tattoos, which include a large tiger and Buddhist blessings for peace, love and a prosperous life.
She accessorized with black heels and matching stockings for the event held at Auditorium Parco della Musica.
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Jolie plays a divorced mother and filmmaker working on a Paris Fashion Week runway film while learning of a breast cancer diagnosis in haute couture.
Screenwriter and director Alice Winocour’s production of the film was a huge success for the Oscar winner, who underwent a prophylactic double mastectomy in 2013 because she carries the BRCA1 gene. (Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian and breast cancer in 2007, and her aunt and grandmother also died from the disease.)
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Jolie told Variety at the Toronto International Film Festival in September that she knew appearing in the film would “bring up a lot of personal things.”
“But I’ve always found that the heaviest movies tend to have the most loving set pieces. There’s something very comforting about having real conversations and having real emotions with a shared community.” “It was very healing in many ways, because seeing the other faces of the people on set, one in three people has cancer, and most of them were in the hospital room with their loved ones. Everyone on set has lost someone they love.”
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Jolie had another big fashion moment while promoting Couture at TIFF last month. At the time, she appeared on the red carpet in a leggy ensemble reminiscent of the one she wore during her memorable appearance at the 2012 Oscars.
The outfit featured a floor-length brown double-breasted coat with buttons that stopped at the waist, creating a voluptuous thigh-high slit that revealed Jolie’s legs.
The mother of six wore a similar leg-baring look at the 84th Academy Awards – a black Atelier Versace dress with a dramatic slit. A photo of her posing with her legs outstretched is now going viral.
Couture does not have a release date yet.
