Angelina Jolie never thought that she would make so much headlines. But finding Maria Callas’s breath was enough to bring out things in Jolie she didn’t even know were inside her. ,Also read: Angelina Jolie says playing Maria Callas in Maria ‘helped heal a part of me’,
Angelina Jolie on playing Maria
“We all don’t really realize where things get into our body during different experiences throughout our lives and where we put it for our own safety,” Jolie said in a recent interview. “We keep it in our stomach. We keep it in our chest. When we are nervous or sad we breathe from a different place.
She adds, “The first few weeks were the hardest because my body had to open up and I had to breathe again.” “And it was a discovery of how much I wasn’t.”
In Pablo Larraín’s Maria, which Netflix released in theaters on Wednesday before beginning streaming on December 11, Jolie gives, if not the performance of her career, then certainly the performance of her last decade. Beginning with 2010’s ‘In the Land of Blood and Honey,’ Jolie has taken a break from directing films in recent years while prioritizing parenting her six children.
“So for a few years my choice was what was financially smart and small. “I worked very little for the last eight years,” says Jolie, “and I was kind of tired. I couldn’t do that for some time.”
Angelina Jolie talks openly about her children
But his youngest children are now 16 years old. And for the first time in years, Jolie is in the spotlight again, in full movie-star mode. Her impressive performance in Maria assures Jolie a third Oscar nomination. (She won a supporting actress award for Girl, Interrupted in 2000.) For an actress whose filmography may lack a signature film, Maria Jolie may have had a defining role.
Jolie’s eldest children, Maddox and Pax, worked on the film set. There, he saw a side of his mother that he had not seen before.
“He had definitely seen me unhappy in my life. But I don’t cry like that in front of my children,” Jolie says of the emotions Callas evoked in her. “That was a moment of realizing that they would really be there with me, shoulder to shoulder, in this process of understanding the depth of some of the pain I’ve endured.”
Jolie, who met with a reporter at the Carlyle Hotel earlier this fall, did not elaborate on the pain. But it was hard to see if it had something to do with her long-running divorce from Brad Pitt, with whom she had six children.
Just before the meeting, a judge allowed Pitt’s remaining claim against Jolie over French winery Chateau Miraval to proceed. On Monday, a judge ruled that Pitt must disclose documents that Jolie’s legal team has sought and alleges contain “abuse-related communications.” Pitt has denied ever being abusive.
Angelina Jolie on US elections
The results of the US presidential election also came just days earlier, although Jolie – special envoy for the UN refugee agency from 2012 to 2022 – was reluctant to talk politics.
Asked about Donald Trump’s victory, she responded, “Telling the global story is essential,” before adding: “That’s what I’m focused on. Hearing. Hearing the voices of people in my country and around the world.” am.”
Balancing things like that – the reports about her personal life, the questions surrounding her celebrity status – is a big reason why Jolie is such a good fit for the role of Callas.
The film takes place during the final days of the American-born soprano. (He died of a heart attack in 1977 at the age of 53.) Spending most of his time in his lavish Paris apartment, Callas has not sung publicly for years; He has lost his voice.
Trapped in the myth she created, Callas is redefining herself and her sound. One coach told him he wanted to hear “Callas, not Maria.” Of course, the film is more concerned with Maria.
It is Larraín’s third portrait of a 20th-century female icon, following Jackie (with Natalie Portman as Jacqueline Kennedy) and Spencer (with Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana).
As Callas, Jolie is surprisingly regal – a self-possessed diva who deliciously delivers lines written by screenwriter Steven Knight: “I’ve taken liberties all my life and the world has taken liberties with me “
Asked if she identified with that line, Jolie replied, “Yeah, yeah.” Then he took a long pause.
“I’m sure people will read a lot about it and there’s probably a lot I could say but I don’t want to get into that,” Jolie ultimately adds. “I know she was a public figure because she loved her work. And I’m a public person because I love my work, not because I like being public. I think some people are more comfortable with public life, and I’ve never been entirely comfortable with it.”
When Larraín first approached Jolie for the role, she screened Spencer for him. That film, like Jackie and Maria, eschews a biopic approach, instead focusing on a specific moment of crisis. Larraín was convinced that Jolie was made for the role.
“I thought he could have that magnetism,” says Lahren. “The mysterious diva has come to a point in her life where she needs to take control of her life again. But the weight of his experiences, his music, his singing, everything is on his back. And she walks away with him. This is someone who is already full of intense life.”
“There’s a loneliness that we both share,” says Jolie. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing. I think people can be lonely and isolated sometimes, and that can be part of their personality.”
Chilean filmmaker Larraín grew up going to the opera in Santiago, and he had long been eager to bring it to life in all its power and glory in a film. In Kailash, he heard something that shocked him.
“I hear something close to perfection, but at the same time, it’s something that’s about to be destroyed,” says Lahren. “So it’s as delicate and strong as possible. It exists in both extremes. That’s why it’s so dynamic. I hear a sound that is about to break, but does not break.”
