Angelina Jolie has said she’d be ready to pursue a political career – if she could make a difference.

The 39-year-old Hollywood star and United Nations Special Envoy said she didn’t know what her future held.

But she told ITV News at Ten’s Julie Etchingham: “I’ve always gone wherever I felt I was needed.

“When I started working with the UN, I felt I loved working in the field and I felt I was useful in the field.

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie (PA)

“And then there was a point where I realised that I was only so useful in the field because someone had to go to Washington and plea the case.

“And so then I would do that,” she added.

Angelina Jolie at the Unbroken premiere
Angelina Jolie at the Unbroken premiere (/Invision/AP)

The Maleficent actress, who has directed new film Unbroken and recently hinted she may be ready to give up acting, said: “You have to step forward and put yourself forward.

“I don’t know what that means or where that will lead me but I want to be effective, to help to make change. in whatever way I’m useful I will do.”

Asked if that meant moving into politics in future, the mother-of-six replied: “If I felt I could really make a difference, yes.”