ACADEMY Award-winning actress Angelina Jolie is “open” to pursuing a life in politics, diplomacy or public service, she told Vanity Fair magazine.

    Jolie, who won a best supporting actress Oscar award for her role in “Girl, Interrupted,” has already turned her hand to directing. Her latest film behind the camera, “Unbroken,” about Olympic runner, World War II airman and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini, is set to open Dec. 25.

    The wife of actor Brad Pitt and a special envoy to the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that her work as a humanitarian has made her conscious of the fact that politics have to be considered as an option.

    “Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility,” she told the magazine in an excerpt from an interview published online Tuesday.

    When asked if she sees herself in politics, diplomacy or public service, she replied, “I am open.”

    When the conversation turned to her film, Jolie, 39, broke down in tears as she told the magazine about her friendship with Zamperini. She showed the former Olympic athlete and war hero an early cut of the movie before he died in July at the age of 97 after a 40-day bout of pneumonia.

    “It was an extremely moving experience,” Jolie said, “to watch someone watching their own life.” (SD-Agencies)