MOSCOW - Hollywood star Angelina Jolie delighted Russians as she arrived in Moscow to promote her thriller movie where she plays a "big hero" Russian spy two weeks after a real-life espionage swap fascinated the world.

In Moscow on the heels of the biggest spy exchange between Russia and the United States since the end of the Cold War, Jolie said Sunday evening her playing a Russian in the spy thriller movie "Salt" was a good thing for the country.

"Maybe there are some bad guys that are Russians but if you look closely the big hero is Russian," Jolie said of the movie at its Russian premier in central Moscow.