{"id":407724,"date":"2017-08-01T09:34:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/angelina-jolie-denies-cruel-cambodia-child-auditions\/"},"modified":"2017-08-01T09:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T09:34:16","slug":"angelina-jolie-denies-cruel-cambodia-child-auditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/angelina-jolie-denies-cruel-cambodia-child-auditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Angelina Jolie denies \u2018cruel\u2019 Cambodia child auditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p>Angelina Jolie has fiercely denied playing tricks on Cambodian children while casting for a film.<\/p>\n<p>The actress and UN special envoy recruited local children to star in her film about Cambodia\u2019s Khmer Rouge, First They Killed My Father.<\/p>\n<p>She spoke to Vanity Fair about the film and explained how they used a casting game which involved giving money to poor children then taking it away.<\/p>\n<p>The interview caused outrage, with many accusing Jolie of being \u201cexploitative\u201d. In it, Jolie explains how the directors looked through slums and orphanages to find actors for the film, and were \u201cspecifically seeking children who had experienced hardship\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Overwhelmed with emotion\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Their casting game saw children being asked to snatch some money, and then when caught, come up with a lie for why they stole it. Angelina Jolie with Cambodian child actress Sareum Srey Moch during the Netflix press conference in Siem.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSrey Moch [who was selected for the lead role] was the only child that stared at the money for a very, very long time,\u201d Jolie told the magazine.<br \/>\u201cWhen she was forced to give it back, she became overwhelmed with emotion\u2026 When she was asked later what the money was for, she said her grandfather had died, and they didn\u2019t have enough money for a nice funeral.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jolie, who directed the Netflix film, said it was \u201cfalse and upsetting\u201d that people misinterpreted her description of the casting process. \u201cI am upset that a pretend exercise in an improvisation, from an actual scene in the film, has been written about as if it was a real scenario,\u201d Jolie said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cThe point of this film is to bring attention to the horrors children face in war and to help fight to protect them. The suggestion that real money was taken from a child during an audition is false and upsetting. I would be outraged myself if this had happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery measure was taken to ensure the safety, comfort and well-being of the children on the film starting from the auditions through production to the present,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>First They Killed My Father is Jolie\u2019s directorial debut for streaming giant Netflix. It is based on a true-life account of a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and is told through the eyes of a child.<\/p>\n<p>Jolie told the BBC earlier this year that she hoped the film would help Cambodians speak more openly about their period of trauma.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Taken out of context\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jolie\u2019s controversial account of casting drew outrage among many, with social media users calling it \u201cemotionally abusive and cruel\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngelina Jolie has gone too far,\u201d wrote one woman on Facebook. \u201cFor someone who constantly declares her love for Cambodia and children, this was a sick and depraved stunt she pulled. 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The actress and UN special envoy recruited local children to star in her film about Cambodia\u2019s Khmer Rouge, First They Killed My Father. She spoke to Vanity Fair about the film and explained how they used a casting game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":407725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Angelina Jolie denies \u2018cruel\u2019 Cambodia child auditions - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/01\/angelina-jolie-denies-cruel-cambodia-child-auditions\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Angelina Jolie denies \u2018cruel\u2019 Cambodia child auditions - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; Angelina Jolie has fiercely denied playing tricks on Cambodian children while casting for a film. 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