“Emotional Moment: Angelina Jolie Overwhelmed by Unexpected 8-Minute Ovation at Venice Film Festival for ‘Maria’!”
“She’s a person with a very big heart,” Pasqualino told the Hollywood Reporter with the help of a translator about his time with Angelina. “She’s fantastic.”
People took their time to praise the actress at the Maria world premiere
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Maria tells the “tumultuous, beautiful, and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.”
At a press conference on Thursday, Angelina spoke about preparing to play the famous soprano Callas, which marked her first time singing in a role.
“Everybody here knows, I was terribly nervous,” the Lara Croft star said of learning to sing opera, Variety reported on Thursday.
@varietymagazine Angelina Jolie gets emotional during the eight-minute standing ovation for #Maria. #Venice2024 ♬ original sound – Variety
The actress continued: “I spent almost seven months training because when you work with Pablo you can’t do anything by half.
“He demands, in the most wonderful way, that you really do the work and you really learn and train.”
Angelina reportedly said she “had not sung in public” before, which added to the pressure when filming packed theater scenes at the Paris, France’s La Scala theater.
The premiere took place at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Thursday night (August 29)
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The filmmaker recalled: “My first time singing I remember being so nervous. My sons were there and they helped lock the door so that nobody else was coming in, and I was shaky.”
