Angelina Jolie 'I had a meltdown

Angelina Jolie suffered a “complete meltdown” making In the Land of Blood and Honey.

The star had a breakdown one day while she was in the shower while trying to get the film  which is her directorial debut off the ground, and had to be comforted by her partner Brad Pitt.

“I had a complete emotional breakdown in the shower and Brad found me crying,” Angelina said.

“I felt this huge responsibility and I felt very small and, who am I to take this on? I had a complete meltdown.”

Angelina who wrote as well as directed the love story, set against the backdrop of the brutal Bosnian war admitted she never set out to take on so much of the project and doesn’t really see herself as a filmmaker.

“I didn’t plan to become a director, and I still have trouble saying I’m a director,” she said.

“I just wanted to tell this story and I ended up by default being the director. “It was a pleasure but I wonder if it would be a pleasure with another cast and crew, and a subject matter that wasn’t so special.”

While the war waged between 1992 and 1995, sparked by fighting over the territories left after the break-up of the socialist republic of Yugoslavia has become an issue very close to Angelina’s heart, she admits at the time it happened, she knew little about it.

“I knew very little, like most Americans,” she said.

“I was 17 so I wasn’t very focused. I was my own form of self-destructive, and it was a bad time.

“I was a punk you don’t imagine you could ever be a role model.”