Jolie: The most beautiful face on the planet

Changeling director, Clint Eastwood, says Angelina Jolie “is an actress hampered by her gorgeous face, I think the most beautiful face on the planet.”

“People sometimes can’t see past that, to her talent. She’s on all these magazine covers so it’s easy to overlook what an amazing actress is underneath,” he added.

Eastwood, 78, compares the mother of six children to Meryl Streep.

“Actors know with me they aren’t going to be allowed to rehearse a scene for a couple of hours and then get away with doing 25 takes before we get it right, so they come with their full bag of tricks,” Eastwood said. “Angelina is a lot like Meryl Streep in that respect.”

Changeling is a period thriller set in 1920s Los Angeles, and is loosely based upon the real-life Wineville Chicken Murders. Jolie plays, Christine Collins, a mother who suspects that the boy returned to her after a kidnapping is not her 9-year-old son. When she voices her concerns to the LAPD, she is vilified as an unfit mother and sent to an insane asylum. She later discovers her real son has been murdered.

A priest, played by John Malkovich, helps Jolie take on the corrupt LAPD unit which botched her son’s rescue and attempted to cover it up. In the process, the priest exposes a city-wide corruption scandal.

Changeling was well received at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and is expected to win Jolie an Oscar nomination.

The film will premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 4, and will be released nationwide on October 31.