Angelina Jolie captivated fans in a chaotic TIFF look

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Angelina Jolie’s much-anticipated return to the Toronto International Film Festival was almost derailed when overzealous fans managed to get through security to greet the actress.

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In videos shared on social media, fans were seen flocking to the Oscar winner as she touched down in Toronto earlier this week to promote her revenge thriller. No Bloodstarring Salma Hayek and Demian Bichir a grown woman who confronts her father’s murderer.

Jolie, 49, was joined by her son Pax, 20, who was injured in an e-bike accident in July.

When Jolie, clad in Dolce & Gabbana and matching opera gloves, signed autographs for fans, not one supporter pulled out the actress’ security ring and hugged her.

As many onlookers came forward, Jolie’s team quickly intervened and the mediator pulled out as the Moderate Star pleaded with them to “be nice.”

On Reddit, viewers called the incident “horrifying” and questioned TIFF for holding such a loud performance at its Lightbox theater instead of one of the festival’s most heavily used venues.

“That was very kind of Angelina but also a holy flip that was scary,” one person wrote.

Postmedia has contacted TIFF organizers for comment following the incident.

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The festival also welcomed Jolie at its annual event Tribute Awards, where she was awarded the Impact Media award for her work connecting social issues and cinema.

But according to DiversityJolie, who also ordered Without interruption and First They Killed My Father, she refused to stop on the red carpet before arriving for photographs and did not want her speech to be recorded.

A message from TIFF programmers read: “Angelina Jolie’s team has requested that no photography or videography of Angelina be done during the Tribute Awards. This includes all photography and videography by TIFF, our sponsors, partners and guests. Please inform your teams that there will be a reduction in the live feed during the Impact Award presentation to accommodate this.”

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Jolie participated in some limited press, telling Deadline in an interview that she was inspired to direct No Blood having fallen in love with him Alessandro Baricco’s novel of the same name.

“When I read the book, I hadn’t read something in a long time, not in my memory, that addressed that very complex gray area of ​​people. When it wasn’t defining who was good, who was bad, what was whole,” she said. “It felt so real to what it’s like for so many people I know who went through the war. When I read it, I thought it would go one way, I was surprised it didn’t, and I was surprised I was glad it didn’t.”

Ahead of TIFF, Jolie visited the Venice Film Festival to promote her upcoming biopic Mariain which she plays opera singer Maria Callas.

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While she was there, the organizers had the unenviable task of ensuring that she did not cross paths with her ex-husband Brad Pitt, with whom she has been locked in a divorce dispute for the past eight years.

But her appearance went without drama, with Jolie’s film premiering days before Pitt’s.

“There is no way they can cross each other at the Lido (where much of the film festival takes place),” promised the festival’s artistic director Alberto Barbera Vanity Fair.

Jolie was coy when she spoke to the press about the upcoming film, saying that playing Callas was “the therapy I didn’t know I needed.”

mdaniell@postmedia.com

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