Angelina Jolie nearly fainted making Maria Callas movie: 'My body wasn’t strong enough
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NEW YORK − For Angelina Jolie, the hardest part of playing opera star Maria Callas wasn’t the seven months of singing lessons.
Rather, it was the "dog training," she jokes, seated on the couch of an Upper East Side hotel with "Maria" director Pablo Larraín. The biopic was shot in Budapest, and her canine co-stars often responded only to Hungarian. As a result, Jolie spent ample time behind the scenes learning commands and giving treats to the movie’s loyal lapdogs.
"There's a lot that's deeply felt and very heavy about the film, but there's also a great amount of charm," Jolie says. "It was very important to capture her relationships, her home life, her eccentricities – and her poodles.
Maria" (streaming now on Netflix) dramatizes the reclusive final days of Callas, who died of a heart attack in 1977 at age 53. Her story unfolds in a series of flashbacks and interviews with a documentary crew as the American-Greek soprano reflects on her critics, romances and art.
The movie marks the end of a trilogy for Larraín, who helped steer Natalie Portman ("Jackie") and Kristen Stewart ("Spencer") to Oscar nominations for their respective biopics of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Princess Diana. Awards experts resoundingly predict that Jolie, 49, will pick up her third Oscar nomination for the performance, after winning best supporting actress in 2000 for "Girl, Interrupted."
For Larraín, the project stems from a lifelong love of opera: "Growing up, my mother would take me to the opera twice a month," he says. Callas always strived to make opera more accessible to the masses, and Larraín hopes to achieve the same with this film. "We're talking about something that sounds elitist, but it shouldn't be."
Callas' own mother, Litsa (played by Lydia Koniordou), loomed large throughout her life. Because she wanted a son, Litsa resented her daughter from birth. And when she discovered Callas could sing at age 5, she pushed her into performing professionally.
"My life was so formed by the love of my mother," Jolie says. "Maria had a mother who was really quite horrible to her, so her relationship to her art was almost maybe the opposite of mine. She was forced to succeed; she was put under pressure that she wasn't good enough; she was criticized heavily by her mom. And I think that affected her her whole life, in how she felt unlovable and that if she wasn't perfect, she didn't have worth."
Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, who gave up acting after having children. Bertrand died of breast and ovarian cancer in 2007 at age 56; through "Maria," Jolie hopes to honor her mother.
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