Angelina Jolie explains about the tips

On Interview: Angelina Jolie On What Creeped Out Brad When He Visited The Salt Set

They gave me tips. They just basically said, 'Just go fully into it and enjoy it.' I loved it. We called him Johnny for some reason. It was really weird. I think I was a bit suave. People had a very, very difficult time talking to me. Philip could hardly talk to me. Nobody could talk to me. It wasn’t as much what he looked like, it was when he spoke. Because when it was my voice coming out of him… And Brad came to visit me once, and I said 'You don’t want to come, I’m going to be the man.' And he said 'It won’t bother me, it’s you, whatever, it’s you.' And then he came and I was changing and so I was like half woman and half man. [He was] sooo creeped out by it.

On her next film, The Tourist, with Johnny Depp and director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Philip Noyce mentioned Hitchcock thrillers as an influence in making this film. Did you have that influence as well?
That would be more for The Tourist, the other film I did. That film is a little more of a throwback to those movies where people took a little more time … I think it was a lot of that. We’re very rushed today, there’s a very fast pace, very fast edit. You don’t spend a lot of time kind of looking at each other, hanging out on the balcony, somebody having a cigarette. You don’t kind of indulge in moments like they used to. And I think it’s too bad. And it doesn’t work in every film, but for The Tourist, we studied them. But Salt's faster.