Jolie was 'terrified' to sing as Maria Callas

(29 Aug 2024)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Venice, Italy - 29 August 2024
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Angelina Jolie, actor and Pablo Larraín, director - on Jolie singing in the film:
Jolie: "It was hard. I was really... I trained for months, but my first days, he was very good to me in that we started in a more intimate first with very few crew members. And we ended at La Scala with everyone. So I had a little time to get my nerve. But this is the hardest thing I've ever done. I was terrified."
Larraín: "Because you know what it is, it's like we can all sing like pop music, right? I could get into a car and sing, I don't know, a song from David Bowie and do it reasonably well. Opera requires a very particular style of singing- in the pitch, the color, the breathing, the posture. It was a very extensive preparation and it was the only way to do it. And we recorded Ange's voice and we mix it, we mix it with Maria and different levels. Sometimes it's a tiny bit of Ange and mostly Maria and then sometimes it's more, but it's always there."

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