When Cruise dropped out, interest from Jolie – who along with Brad Pitt makes up the world's most powerful Hollywood couple – prompted a rewrite and name change for the lead character from Edwin to Evelyn.
There can't be many people who feel a pang of empathy for Angelina Jolie, who, along with her PR team, is reportedly upset about an unauthorised biography of her by Andrew Morton.
Jolie walked along the aisle with her eldest sons Maddox and Pax, 13 and 10 respectively, while her daughters Zahara, nine, and Vivienne, six, threw petals.
But if Angelina Jolie uttered something along those lines, I would hurl her from a cliff-top while foaming at the mouth.
What we need is for Angelina Jolie or Geri Haliwell to come along and sort it all out.
Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie has visited camps along Turkey's border with Syria, where she met refugees who have fled the country since the beginning of the unrest.
And has it ever: From a young Angelina Jolie in frills to Jennifer Lopez in sequins, Oscar dresses have grown up along with the celebrities who have donned them.
Pitt was allegedly placed on a travel blacklist that banned him from visiting the country (along with Martin Scorsese following his Tibet film Kundun), though he accompanied Jolie on her current promotional trip.
The writer-producer's body of work includes the Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie action film Mr and Mrs Smith, along with Neill Blomkamp's Elysium and the South African film-maker's planned follow-up, Chappie.
I myself, along with many others, raised this same point in connection with François Ozon's film Jeune et Jolie, about a teenage woman becoming an escort.
Angelina Jolie in Hackers.
