Angelina Jolie has revealed she didn’t shower for three days before a photoshoot which sees her covered in a swarm of bees.
The actress has been announced as the “Godmother of bees” in support of a new campaign to train and support female beekeeper-entrepreneurs around the world.
To celebrate the program launched by the United Nation’s UNESCO, Angie revealed that she was told she wasn’t allowed “different scented shampoos and perfumes” on her body, in order to not confuse the insect but that it “felt lovely to be connected to these beautiful creatures.”
In the picture, taken by amateur beekeeper Dan Winters, the mom-of-six poses in a cream off-the-shoulder blouse, as she smiles into the camera while the bees cover her collarbone and chin.
“It was so funny to be in hair and makeup and wiping yourself with pheromone,” shared Angelina.
“‘We couldn’t shower for three days before. Because they told me, ‘If you have all these different scents, shampoos and perfumes and things, the bee doesn’t know what you are.’ Then you put a few things up your nose and in your ears so you don’t give them as many holes to climb in.”
But that didn’t mean some of those bees didn’t find other places to hide, with the Maleficent star admitting: “I did have one that got under my dress the entire time. It was like one of those old comedies.
“I kept feeling it on my knee, on my leg, and then I thought, ‘Oh, this is the worst place to get stung. It’s getting really close.’ It stayed there the entire time we were doing the shoot. And then when I got all the other bees off, I lifted the skirt and he went away.”
“You have to be really still and in your body, in the moment, which is not easy for me,” she explained of the importance of the shoot.
“I think part of the thought behind it was, this creature is seen as dangerous sometimes or stinging. So how do we just be with it? The intention is we share this planet. We are affected by each other. This is what it should feel like and it really did, and I felt very honored and very lucky to have the experience.”
