Angelina Jolie and Pablo Larraín bring their film after a whirlwind tour of Venice, Telluride and New York Film Festivals Maria Attending AFI Fest in Los Angeles on Saturday night.
This project – following Larraín’s previous research on Jackie Kennedy Jackie and princess diana spencer — Explore the final days of legendary but troubled opera singer Maria Callas in 1970s Paris as she fights to regain her lost iconic voice.
In a post-screening Q&A hosted by Barry Jenkins, Larrain noted, “I don’t think there was any other option, if Angelina had died, I don’t think this movie would exist” and needed a director who could capture Callas’ ” “Beyond life” diva style, and has the discipline to learn to sing opera.
“I think when I was asked if I could sing, I thought, one, sing like an actor – I’ll sing as much as I can, I’ll do my best – not understanding what singing opera is,” Jolie admitted, He called the training process “a very exciting, very special and terrifying journey.”
She told the audience, “There haven’t been a lot of moments in my career where I’ve been asked to give you everything you have, and that’s one of the greatest gifts, especially as an artist, for someone to ask for and want something from you. To give everything you have that you didn’t know you had, Julie added that she “has to be afraid again as an artist, which is a gift because you get to be scared and have to do it.” “Something you’re not sure you can do and surprise yourself,” with Larraín at the helm, “I knew I had a safe place to fail, so I was allowed to be free.” ”
Jolie said on the red carpet before the screening hollywood reporter Despite transforming into an opera legend, she still “didn’t really consider myself a singer, but I got through that,” like her character, through which “I think I did find my voice again. I I’ve never had the support to know how to do it, I’ve never tried it.
After seven months of vocal training and immersing herself in Callas’ life, Jolie says she’s not sure she’s forgotten the character.
“I’ve played some real people in my life that you take with you; it’s different from other characters,” the star said. “It’s like she’s my sister now, she’s someone I know very well, and I really have to fall in love with her in order to help other people understand her, and I have to understand her in order to hope that I’m saying the right thing and doing the right thing. thing. So I’ll always hear her music and maybe her smile will be a little different than other people’s because I feel so connected.
Maria It will be released in select theaters on November 27th and will begin streaming on Netflix on December 11th.
