Pablo Larraín’s real-life-based drama starring Angelina Jolie as opera diva Maria Callas who is both witty and beautiful, is receiving great recognition due to Angelina’s performance. She embodied the character with Maria’s vulnerability and her essence.
Angelina shared her experience of playing the opera icon for which she trained for seven months. But, she was nervous. Everything worked out well as she received a standing ovation for the role. Well, hard work pays off. Now, is she aiming for an Oscar? The actress has bigger things on her mind.
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Angelina Jolie On Oscar Buzz For ‘Maria’
Angelina Jolie had to go through a lot to step into the character of the legendary singer. Her kids and the director were quite understanding and helpful. She recalled, “My sons were there and they helped lock the door so that nobody else was coming in, and I was shaky.” She added, “Pablo, in his decency, started me in a small room and ended me in La Scala. So he gave me time to grow.”
About generating Oscar buzz, Jolie shared that she’s more focused on the correct portrayal of the role and all she cared about was Callas’ legacy and her fans. “My fear would be to disappoint them. If there’s a response to the work, I’m very grateful, but … I really came to care for her, so I didn’t want to do a disservice to this woman,” she added.
Jolie could also relate to Callas, but not because of living life in the public eye, but because the common ground was personal struggles. She explained, “There’s a lot I won’t say in this room that you probably know and assume. I related to the part of her that is extremely soft and didn’t have room in the world to be as soft as she truly was and as emotionally open as she truly was. I think I share her vulnerability more than anything.”
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Angelina Jolie’s Tough Training For The Role
During the Venice Film Festival Angelina shared her experience with ‘Maria‘. She called it a “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.”
“Everybody here knows, I was terribly nervous,” she said of learning to sing opera. “I spent almost seven months training because when you work with Pablo you can’t do anything by half. He demands, in the most wonderful way, that you really do the work and you really learn and train.”
Jolie added that she “had not sung in public” before and there was great pressure as the film had packed theatre scenes at Paris’ La Scala theater.
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