Here’s the reason Angelina Jolie doesn’t like watching most of her own movies

She’s captivated audiences in action roles such as Lara Croft, played the disturbingly magnificent Maleficent and won an Oscar for her harrowing portrayal of a troubled young woman in Girl, Interrupted. 

But you might be surprised to know Angelina Jolie doesn’t like watching herself on screen and calls herself her own worst critic. 

“There’s quite a few films of mine I’ve actually never seen,” she says in an interview on Australian Nova Radio's Smallzy's Celebrity Small Talk. “I usually see it and I get frustrated because I thought it was going to be something else.” 

But that changed with her latest release, Marvel's Eternals.

“I really just like the making of my movies, not the watching. But I enjoyed watching this one. I’ve seen it,” she says. 

The Academy Award winner attended the UK premiere of the film with her kids (from left) Shiloh, Zahara, Vivienne, Maddox and Knox. (PHOTO: Gallo Images / Getty Images)

Angie (46) isn't the only star who has a hard time watching herself on screen.

"I don't ever really want to see myself as the camera sees me. I don't want to watch myself,” Oscar winner Joaquin Phoenix once said. “Of course, there's a part of you that's curious for a second and I have to constantly tell myself, 'No'.” 

Reese Witherspoon is in the same camp. "I don't know who feels good looking at themselves. Nobody, right? It’s torture. Why would you want to watch yourself being stupid and pretending to be somebody else?"

But Angelina says the reason she didn't mind watching herself in Eternals is because she could relate to her character, warrior Thena. 

“I’m somebody who questions herself often, and I don’t walk around with confidence that I’m ever good enough or strong enough,” she said during a press briefing. 

She plays Thena, an elite Eternal warrior who can form weapons from cosmic energy, in the film. (PHOTO: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

“But I’ve come to see as I’ve got older that those parts of me that are very emotional and vulnerable are also what make me very real and in tune to my children or in tune to someone else or a stranger to be empathetic.

“And to have my own parts that are broken… I hope it’s made me a better person.” 

Drawing parallels between her strength and her character's, she added, “Now, I kind of embrace these things that make us very real and human, they are in fact our strengths.

“And so yes, I’m very much like Thena. I am both that person that can be raw, feel broken, vulnerable, but I’m also that person who will fight to the end with everything I’ve got for those I love.”

SOURCES: ETCANADA.COM; DAILYMAIL.CO.UK; NEWS.COM.AU