Angelina Jolie has been discussing playing a gun-toting assassin in her new film 'Wanted', which seems an incongruous role given her work as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly she said: "I am a strong believer that without justice there is no peace. No lasting peace, anyway.
"I'm not somebody that just wants to hold up a white flag and say, 'Let's all just get along.'"
Jolie continued: "I don't think like in 'Wanted' - which is an action movie - people should [just] be killed."
She added: "But the idea behind 'Wanted' is not that she's a badass assassin that just likes to kill people.
"It's that, if you ran into Hitler before he did everything, and you knew, should you shoot him? And I would. These assassins are getting lists: They find out who is going to slaughter other people ahead of time and they remove them.
"So that was the side of me that identified with her."
In relation to the possible response to the film by anti-gun activists she said it was "a confusing thing, certainly for rights activists".
Jolie gave this advice: "Don't read too much into it."
