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Angelina Jolie has learned to speak French fluently for her film Stitches after taking up opera for Maria


The 49-year-old actress picked up the romance language for her role as Maxine in the new movie Stitches about Fashion Week.

Maddox worked as an assistant director on this film, which is about opera singer Maria Callas' final days in 1970s Paris. The actress had the 'experience of a lifetime' starring in Pablo Larraín's biographical psychological drama about diva Maria, and although the Oscar hype is 'very nice', she feels like she has already been given 'the greatest gift' of making a movie with an 'extraordinary team of people' and anything else is a 'dream'. Asked about the Oscar buzz surrounding her film, she laughed to Best UK magazine: 'It means a lot that somebody thinks you did a good job.

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