Middle Age Hollywood

Salt director Phillip Noyce said he really thought of changing the already penned male lead to female.

"Well, Tom [Cruise] was never signed, but he was really thinking about it. We needed a start date, so we needed an actor. Amy Pascal, head of Sony Pictures, said ‘Let's send it to Angelina.' It seemed for a moment to be an outrageous idea! Then I thought about it and realized it only had pluses."

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura told us he was onboard because Jolie was no girlie-girl.

"It's true that Amy Pascal had joked to [Angelina] about her being a Bond Girl one day and Angelina really said, ‘No I don't want to be a Bond Girl. I want to be Bond.' When it didn't work out with Tom, this seemed like the movie to give her that shot. They've been talking about this notion for a while."