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Angelina Jolie Spent ‘7 Months’ in Opera-Diva Training

To achieve the “right illusion” with Maria Callas’s voice in Pablo Larraín’s latest.

Angelina Jolie makes playing a sexy fish look elegant, so it’s hard to imagine the actress having challenges when preparing for a role. In Pablo Larraín’s new movie, Maria, premiering at the Venice Film Festival this weekend, Jolie was “terribly nervous” about singing opera in the role. He demands, in the most wonderful way, that you really do the work and you really learn and train.” Per Jolie, it’ll be her singing debut, and because of her nerves, her first practice was in a “small room” with her sons guarding the door.

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