Angelina Jolie was stunned when the Russian spy scandal broke in the U.S. last month (Jun10) - because it mirrored the plot of her new movie, SALT.
The actress plays a CIA operative accused of being a KGB sleeper agent planted in the States to assassinate the president in the upcoming film.
In a bizarre twist, ten Russian spies - including femme fatale Anna Chapman - were arrested in the U.S. last month and deported back to their homeland after admitting espionage.
And Jolie admits the coincidence shocked her as the spy ring was smashed just weeks before the movie's release.
She says, "It's bizarre, isn't it? I have two halves... A part of me feels, as a citizen of a country, you think, 'I don't want anything to affect our new positive relationship with Russia.' And the other part of me is somebody who's in a film, thinks, 'My god, what timing.' And this is so strange, because all through making the film, there was a question of, 'Is it possible? Does it still exist today? Is it poignant? Is it relevant?'"