I remember watching Angelina Jolie on Inside the Actor’s Studio when I was younger. I hadn’t really heard of her and she had just made Gia, which would later become one of my favorite performances of hers. 

She talked a lot about the movie, herself, her life all with this very coy smile and casual air. I was just so taken with her. And I remember James Lipton asked her a somewhat uncomfortable question about her sexuality and she, with a little cavalier smirk on, responded very candidly about her interest in taking knives into the bedroom. I remember hearing the blood pumping in my ears, especially when she said that she had scars from when things got too “passionate”.

Am I a fan of scarification? Not at all. But am I a fan of a woman that into knifeplay that she unabashedly discussed it with James Lipton? Hell yeah.