In Alice Winocour’s film, the Oscar-winning actress plays Maxine, an American director tasked with creating a video for a fashion event in Paris while facing a breast cancer diagnosis and navigating a divorce.

After the screening at the Princess of Wales Theatre on Saturday, September 6, Jolie joined her co-stars Ella Rumpf and Anier Ané, along with director Alice Winocour, for a discussion with the audience.

One audience member, who had recently lost a friend to cancer, asked what message of “hope” Jolie could offer to those still battling the disease.

The question visibly moved Jolie. “I’m so sorry for your loss,” she said initially. She then spoke about her mother: “I think I’ll share something I remember from my mother when she was fighting cancer. Once, when we went out to dinner and people asked her how she was feeling, she said to me: ‘All anyone asks me about is the cancer.’ So I would say, if you know someone going through this, ask them about all the other things in their life, too. You know, they’re a person, and they’re still living.”

Jolie’s mother was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1999, and later with breast cancer. Bertrand passed away on January 27, 2007, after an eight-year battle with the disease.

In 2013, Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy after genetic tests revealed a high risk of developing breast cancer. Following the surgery, she wrote in a New York Times article that her risk of developing cancer had dropped to below 5%.