So she deals with her plight by reaching under her skirt, whipping off her skimpy underwear and draping it over the all-seeing lens.
It goes without saying that no male actor could resort to such a scene - not Tom Cruise (who at one point, was in line for the role she played), not any of the other actors who were anxious to be cast but were found wanting. But with the sexy but formidable Jolie in charge, the sequence generates an enormous roar of approval from audiences.
That scene came easily, offering Jolie and the filmmakers a golden "opportunity" to demonstrate that a super-charged gal like her was quite capable of playing a man's part, says producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. But that doesn't mean it was a piece of cake to rework a script that had originally been intended for a male star.
