30 August 2024, 14:02 | Updated: 12 December 2024, 09:38
By Maddy Shaw Roberts
Jolie trained for “almost seven months” to give a convincing performance as opera diva Maria Callas.
At a press conference at the Venice Film Festival, where Pablo Larraín’s new biopic Maria premiered on 29 August, Angelina Jolie gave an insight into the training she went through to become Maria Callas – one of the greatest opera stars of all time.
“Everybody here knows, I was terribly nervous,” Jolie revealed. “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.”
The American actress added that she “had not sung in public” before her live performance at Milan’s La Scala, a scene that will feature in the film.
“My first time singing I remember being …