ABC/Rick Rowell(NEW YORK) — Angelina Jolie doesn’t want her son Maddox to forget his roots.
The A-lister recently took a trip to Cambodia, the site of her breakout movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, and the place where she adopted her eldest son in 2002, reports E! News.
This trip is the first of many. Jolie is set to begin her next directorial project, a film adaptation of Loung Ung’s book First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia. The film reveals how life was under the deadly regime of Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, in which millions were killed in a genocide.
“As Maddox and I prepare the film we will be side by side learning about his country,” Jolie told reporters. “He is turning 14 next week and this is a very important time for him to understand who he is. He is my son but he is also a son of Cambodia. This is the time for our family to understand all that means to him and to us.”
Shooting for the film will begin in November, according to E! The film is set to premiere on Netflix in 2016.
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