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‘Maria’: Read The Screenplay By Steven Knight That Became The Libretto For Angelina Jolie’s Opera Icon
Maria, the Maria Callas biopic-of-sorts starring Angelina Jolie, is directed by Pablo Larraín and written by Steven Knight.
For Larraín and Knight, the Netflix movie reteams them after 2021’s Lady Di biopic Spencer, which earned Kristen Stewart a Best Actress Oscar nomination. Already an opera fan, he dove into research around “the more remote and unknown elements of Maria’s life” and was able to access first-hand testimony from Ferrucio Mezzadri, Callas’ longtime butler. “I think this decision [to focus on her last days] helps to make sense of the flashbacks, as if a human being is recollecting and reviewing the span of her life before she leaves this planet forever,” Knight says.
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