Angelina Jolie 'looks rough' in new film

Angelina Jolie has reportedly revealed that she doesn't look her best in her new film Salt.

The actress, who plays the lead role of CIA officer Evelyn Salt, admitted that the physical nature of the role meant that she didn't always look glamorous.

Speaking to Total Film, she said: "Females in those films rely on being female but we wanted to ignore that - she’s just Salt.

"She doesn’t use her sexuality to get anything. In fact, in many ways it’s the roughest I’ve looked because when you fight it gets ugly and if someone breaks your nose it’s not pretty."

Jolie also admitted that there were some difficulties in changing the original script, in which the main character was male: "It was much harder than we thought to switch it from a male to a female because the challenges and surprises or how a man would react to a certain situation are not necessarily the same when it’s a woman.

"For example, the original character was married and he had a child and part of the discovery at the end was that he would find love. But for a woman the discovery of love is not a deep surprise."

Salt is set for release in the US on July 23 and in the UK on August 20.