First trailer for Maria: Angelina Jolie sobs while portraying the plays haunted opera diva Maria Callas
The initial teaser for Angelina Jolie’s film Maria featured her appearance. The famous opera singer Maria Callas is portrayed by the 49-year-old diva.
The video opens with an elderly Maria entering a stage where a man is sitting at a piano. Maria, played by Jolie, remembers her younger years as she peers out at the vacant chairs.
A brief montage shows her looking radiant and younger. She is also spotted on a yacht with her ex-lover, Aristotle Onassis. Later, she is seen sobbing, breaking down in a courtyard in Paris, and practicing her voice.
But we don’t hear her singing.
The movie ‘follows the American-Greek soprano as she escapes to Paris after a dazzling and turbulent existence in the public eye,’ according to a synopsis.In her latter days, Maria “reimagines the legendary soprano as the diva grapples with her identity and life.”
53-year-old She passed away in Paris in 1977 after a heart attack. The eagerly awaited film will debut in theaters in November and be available for streaming on Netflix in December.
The star is taking on a huge task.
“I was terribly nervous; I spent almost seven months training,” she remarked during a press conference for the film at the Venice Film Festival.
“When I sang for the first time, I was incredibly anxious.” I was nervous, and my sons were there to help block the door [so] that nobody else could enter.
And [filmmaker Pablo Larraín], in his kindness, put me in a tiny room at the beginning and ended me at La Scala. He so gave me time to mature. I was afraid I wouldn’t measure up to [Callas].
After filming the film, Angelina made a joke about possibly participating in karaoke evenings in the future.
When asked which karaoke song was her favorite, she joked, saying, “I didn’t sing before this [movie], so I haven’t done karaoke, but maybe I have a few now!”
Jolie said earlier this month that she used to love singing but gave it up after receiving criticism from an ex. The nasty ex’s name escaped her.
The actress, who has been married to Brad Pitt, Billy Bob Thornton, and Johnny Lee Miller in the past, acknowledged that playing the opera singer Maria in Maria required her to get over her anxiety of performing in front of an audience.
‘It was an out-of-body experience because I don’t sing,’ she said to The Hollywood Reporter. There was a person in my life who treated me badly because I sang. I was involved in a romance. I so just assumed that I wasn’t a very good singer.
The fact that it even affected me was strange because I had attended theater school. I simply adjusted to this person’s viewpoint. I had to overcome a lot of obstacles before I could begin singing.
She admitted to IndieWire last week that before starting to film Maria, she didn’t know anything about opera music.
The Oscar-winning actress admitted, “I was raised in the United States.” Where I was reared [in Los Angeles], it was not a part of the culture, but in other nations, people recognize its importance and necessity.Although I had heard of [Maria], it was a whole revelation of this new art form to enter my life and instruct me in all the many operas.
“I hope that most people, no matter how much they identify with the movie, experience a revelation, allow themselves to feel it, and attempt to sing it.” If it’s possible for me to…
Angelina recently disclosed that she has been practicing for her Maria performance for “months.”
“I had seven months of opera classes, great teachers and Italian classes, and a supportive team that were going to help me,” the actress remarked during the Telluride Film Festival.
When I was younger, certain songs and sounds would always fit the mood I was in—whether it was love at first sight, curiosity about something, or something else entirely.
The movie star said, “Nothing meets what you’re feeling like opera.” “Some of the pieces are incredibly beautiful, filled with hope and yearning.”
“Opera is larger.” It is more than what we let ourselves experience on a daily basis.
Angelina, who is married to Brad and has four children together—Maddox, 23, Pax, 20, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and the twins, Knox and Vivienne, 16—recently expressed her gratitude to her sons for calming her fears about singing in the movie.
