By Sarah Mills

TORONTO (Reuters) -Academy Award winner Angelina Jolie had a strong message about hope and living her best life as she reflected on her family’s history of cancer before the world premiere of “Couture” on Sunday.

The “Salt” and “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” actor was at the Toronto International Film Festival promoting her film “Couture,” the story of an American film director navigating the Parisian fashion industry while she is given a serious medical diagnosis and is in the midst of a divorce.

“I’m 50 now. My mother and grandmother by this age were in chemo,” Jolie said, walking down the red carpet with her co-stars.

“We all have these things we worry about or people we love. And it’s either going to make us slow down and almost feel we can’t move, take a step, or we’re going to

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