Angelina Jolie‘s new film is a household affair!

Within the new situation of PEOPLE, the Oscar winner, 47, shares the primary pictures of With out Blood and talks about working together with her sons Maddox, 21, and Pax, 18, who each had jobs on the Italian set of the upcoming drama she directed.

“We work properly collectively. When a movie crew is at its greatest, it looks like an enormous household, so it felt pure,” Jolie says of her boys. The 2 labored within the assistant director division, which serves as a liaison between the movie’s director and the opposite departments of a film.

Pax, who had beforehand collaborated along with his mother on her 2017 drama First They Killed My Father, capturing stills for that film, additionally targeted on behind-the-scenes footage for With out Blood. “[He] labored laborious,” she provides.

Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir star within the drama, which manufacturing firm Fremantle describes as “an unforgettable fable set within the aftermath of an unidentified battle [which] explores common truths about warfare, trauma, reminiscence, and therapeutic.”

It’s based mostly on the 2002 novel by Alessandro Barrico. “The guide had an influence on me because it has so many different folks,” continues Jolie. “It carries themes and questions vital to debate.”

With out Blood is the fifth function movie directed by Jolie, and her first with Fremantle, which signed her to a three-year deal in March.

Jolie is coy in regards to the characters Hayek and Bichir play, however guarantees their performances are unbelievable: “Salma and Demián are very genuine and courageous on this movie. I had been a fan of their work. I knew they might deliver stable dedication and craft to the movie however actually, they each blew me away.”

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Jolie says Hayek, her former costar within the 2021 Marvel film The Eternals, was “so uncooked and so genuine. She’s mesmerizing.”

Hayek had equally excessive reward for Jolie when chatting with PEOPLE earlier this summer time. She referred to as the filmmaker “most likely one of the best director I’ve ever labored with.”

Continued Hayek: “It was a tricky movie to do. After which by some means, it was a pleasure to endure a lot [because]…she was shockingly good.”

Jolie’s 4 different kids—Spelman School freshman Zahara, 17; Shiloh, 16; and 14-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne, all of whom she shares with ex-husband Brad Pitt, 58, didn’t work on With out Blood.

What makes her probably the most happy with her more and more grown-up youngsters? “I am proud that they’re all very a lot their very own folks,” she says. “Very totally different and nonetheless a really shut household that be taught from one another.”