Angelina Jolie to shed sexy image in Salt

Angelina Jolie's role of a CIA officer in her upcoming movie Salt would see her shed the sexy image, she's known for.

Jolie said that the role of Evelyn Salt in the turn as CIA officer Evelyn Salt in the upcoming movie Salt is one of the most unglamorous roles she has ever done.

'Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that she's just Salt,' the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Jolie as saying.
 
'She doesn't use her sexuality to get anything. In fact, in many ways it's the roughest I've looked because when you fight it gets ugly and if someone breaks your nose it's not pretty,' she added.

The role of Evelyn Salt was originally meant to be played by a man, reportedly Tom Cruise.

'We discussed the film with Tom,' director Phillip Noyce told the Total Film magazine.

'His main fears were that the character was too close to Ethan Hunt, being a rogue spy, with extraordinary abilities,' he added.

'It was much harder than we thought to switch it from a male to a female because the challenges and surprises or how a man would react to a certain situation are not necessarily the same when it's a woman,' said Jolie.

'For example, the original character was married and he had a child and part of the discovery at the end was that he would find love. But for a woman the discovery of love is not a deep surprise,' she added.

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Cheryl Tweedy will miss the start of reality TV show X Factor as she is suffering from malaria.

The Girls Aloud singer will not return to the X Factor until live finals in October.

Cheryl will also not be performing at the V Festival in August and has postponed plans to finish her new album by Christmas.

The 27-year-old Brit singer picked up the killer disease during a holiday in Tanzania and she is being treated at a private clinic.

'She is still taking oxygen and is very frail. She is on a drip and sleeping a lot,' the Sun quoted a close friend as saying.

'She will not be able to take part in X Factor's boot-camp stage or perform at V,' said Cheryl's spokesman.

Ryan Kwanten who is single till now, has admitted that American girls just don't cut it when it comes to dating.

The True Blood star, which has cemented him as serious pin-up material, revealed that he misses Aussie women.

'I really miss Aussie women,' the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Kwanten as telling Fairfax.

'I guess the ability to just be themselves ... that's something that the American women can learn from, they really could. That and our beer!

'I'm still amazed that no one has really bothered to import it properly there," he added.