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Angelina Jolie Worried About Upsetting Her Kids Who Worked on ‘Maria’ With Her: ‘They Hadn’t Experienced Me Expressing a Lot of the Pain’


Angelina Jolie opens up about filming emotional scenes with her sons Maddox and Pax on set as production assistants on Maria Callas biopic 'Maria.'

In a revealing interview with BBC News, Angelina Jolie opened up about how filming her Maria Callas biopic led to unprecedented emotional vulnerability with her children on set, particularly sons Maddox, 23, and Pax, 21, who served as production assistants. The Pablo Larraín-directed film “Maria” marks a significant return to leading roles for Jolie, with early buzz, including a Golden Globes acting nod, suggesting potential Oscar consideration. “When the opera classes began, what it requires with your breathwork and your body and just the force of what you push through yourself, it’s just a very different physicality,” said Jolie, whose singing scenes blend her voice with original Callas recordings.

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