Angelina Jolie blinked back tears today as she told journalists in London that her role in new film Changeling reminded her of her late mother.

The actress, visiting the UK to promote the Clint-Eastwood directed movie which opens next week, said her character, whose son goes missing, was similar to her actress mother Marcheline Bertrand, who died from cancer in 2007.

“A single mom in 1928 was a difficult place to come from. [She] didn’t command any respect,” the actress said of her character Christine Collins. “Because I couldn’t relate to it, my mom wasn’t [there in] 1928, but there was something about her.”

So back off Jennifer Aniston!

From Access Hollywood