Hollywood star Angelina Jolie – who became a Cambodian citizen in 2005 – has stated in a recent interview that she considers Cambodia as her home.
Speaking to people.com, the Tomb Raider star was asked where she considered was her home.
“In my heart, Cambodia,” Jolie answered. “My first trip was Tomb Raider, where you saw me hanging upside down.”
“I learned something about life. I think about my life and the amount of things I almost didn’t do, almost missed, that would’ve changed the course of my life. I said no to Tomb Raider when I was first called.”
While Tomb Raider may have brought her there, the Oscar winner formed a deep connection with the Southeast Asian country by adopting her first child, Maddox, a year after the film was released.
Jolie credits her son Maddox, now 23, for encouraging her to make the Netflix film First They Killed My Father, which takes place in her son’s home country.
The drama, directed by Jolie, is based on her friend Loung Ung’s memoir about surviving the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia.
Jolie previously told PEOPLE that her son “goes back and forth [to Cambodia] a lot, but this would be over four months of just being in the country, really reading, listening, learning and absorbing all things about his culture and country [including] the very, very dark parts.”
