Angelina Jolie Honors Moms Style in Couture Film

wore something that belonged to her late mother Marcheline Bertrand when filming her new movie Couture.

The Oscar-winning actress told People she had on a gold necklace that her mom used to wear while playing filmmaker Maxine Walker for the Paris-set drama.

The 50-year-old star can be seen in the trailer wearing the necklace which has a gold pendant.

The movie also parallels her mom's own personal health journey: When Maxine travels to Paris to make a movie about a fashion runway, she learns she had breast .

Jolie's mother Bertrand died from breast and ovarian cancer in 2007 at the age of 56.

Jolie also lost her grandmother and her aunt to breast cancer. Because of this genetic history, in 2013, Jolie publicly announced that she she carried the BRCA1 genetic mutation. 

Two years later, she also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed to further reduce her cancer risks.

The conversation with People happened on Monday at a dinner at the store Atelier Jolie in New York City. It was catered by the immigrant and refugee chefs of Eat Offbeat.

Jolie also talked to the publication about the emotions of the 'beautiful' movie Couture.

'It has something to say that I thought could be useful to people, showing how everyone is dealing with things that make us very human, and that if we can figure out how to live through challenges by leaning on each other and having more empathy towards one another, the better and less alone we will be,' she shared.

'Alice is a wonderful director and approaches the stories of the women in Couture with sensitivity and hope. The film is not about an end for my character but rather about a renewed desire to live life until your last breath which particularly resonates with me at this time in my life,' Jolie said.

'I am not sure I was strong enough even five years ago to do this. To be open and trusting to share and be vulnerable again,' she also shared.

'Things happen in life that take us off path. We lose ourselves and we feel isolated. I would have given anything to have my mother alive to be there for her grandchildren,' she noted.

Jolie's movie Couture 'particularly resonates' with her.

'I am not sure I was strong enough even five years ago to do this. To be open and trusting to share and be vulnerable again,' she said.

The ex-wife of Brad Pitt has previously admitted the cancer storyline was particularly emotional for her she told Variety earlier. 'I felt very vulnerable. I feel like it's such a personal film. It felt so private that in my mind, it's probably the one film that doesn't feel like a film.'

The actress knew making the movie would 'bring up many personal things' but she found it a 'healing' experience.

She told the publication: 'I have always found the heaviest films tend to have the most loving sets. There's something quite comforting about having real conversations and having real feelings with a shared community.

'It was quite healing in many ways because you look at the other faces of the people on the set, because one in three people have cancer, and most everybody's been in a hospital room with somebody they've loved. Everybody on set has lost someone they've loved.

'You recognize that life is fragile and time goes quickly, and people pass away that we can't imagine the world could exist without ... It's hard not to feel very close to a crew and other actors in this kind of a piece.'

Jolie also learned to speak French for the movie, which She really immersed herself in the part and was obsessed with the idea of speaking French, even more than me.

'Her mother was French, so there were many things that were very intimate. She really dedicated herself to the movie.'

Couture will come out in theaters on June 26.