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With Maria, Can Angelina Jolie Sing for Her Oscar?
Singing, stars, drugs, death, comebacks — if Maria checked any more boxes, it’d be a tax form.
After 2016’s Jackie and 2021’s Spencer, Maria marks the conclusion of an unofficial trilogy by the Chilean Larraín: three biopics exploring the messy inner lives of iconic women at a moment of crisis. The second was that Larraín’s particular vision has often skewed too arthouse for Academy voters in the past: Tellingly, both Portman and Stewart came into their seasons pegged as potential powerhouses, only for their films to lose steam over the course of the fall. Vetro told me he assembled a small team to get the star as close to Maria Callas as possible: two female opera teachers to help her with the arias, plus a male coach to teach her how to sing in Italian.
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