'Maria' First Look: Angelina Jolie Unveiled as Iconic Opera Singer Maria Callas | THR News
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- We now have our first look at Angelina Jolie as famed diva Maria Callas in Pablo Larrain's upcoming biopic 'Maria'. The film just shared the first images of Jolie as the character. The movie is based on true accounts and will tell the tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world's greatest opera singers, relived and re-imagined during her final days in 1970s Paris.
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My favorite actress playing my favorite opera diva? Perfection!
Can't wait to watch the movie. I'm pleasantly surprised to hear Angelina taking this role.❤
I can’t wait for this movie! Forever Angelina ♥️
I bet Angelina knocks this role out of the park ! 💜
The problem is I don’t see Maria, I see Angelina. That’s the problem with hiring a global super star as an actress for your film.
I agree they should've got an unknown but promising actress
I seeing Maria
Angelina is an actress, not an imitator... I mean, the idea is not to make a photocopy of Callas, but to make the film more attractive with a global Superstar. Excellent choice ;-)
@@hugoarmasaustria1732 Exactly!
@@hugoarmasaustria1732 Correct. It's not an impression or a tribute act, the actress is just a vessel to portray a character for the purpose of telling the story.
I CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS I LOVE ANG!!!
Very excited for this Pablo Larrain and Angelina Jolie's collaboration 😊
I have been in love with the voice of Maria Callas since I was a young girl!! I can't wait!!!
"It's not about looks, it's about acting
Didn't know the role was going to Jolie. I think that Monica Bellucci looked more like Maria Callas. Both had a more Mediterranean look.
I agree Monica looks more like her
Maria looked sorta like Celine Dion
@@Bunny11344 Not really. Celine has lighter brown eyes, almost amber or hazel. Her face is also more petite, with a sharper pointy chin, longer neck, and thinner lips. Maria had fuller cheeks and lips, with a wider chin and jaw, and strong and thick Mediterranean brown eyebrows that maybe 80s Celine had. Maria also had extremely large intimidating eyes, that of a Disney villain like an evil stepmom, witch, or evil queen. The only feature they shared maybe was their aquiline nose. As for Angelina, she has a very Northwestern European look. Opal eyes, square jaws, more straight nose. I would say that out of anyone famous that I know, Nigella Dawson looks the closest to Maria Callas in her 50s, and a young Kate Bush looked closest to Callas in her prime. But none of those are actresses, other than Angelina, and Celine is sadly suffering from stiff person syndrome, which sadly made her cancel all her tours and maybe retire her from show biz permanently (very sad). So Monica is the best choice in terms of look. But of course, this is probably a movie in English, so Monica would have her thick Italian accent, which would not be believable, since Maria had that distinct Trans-Atlantic American accent, as she was born in New York during the 1920s. Monica may pull off the scenes where Callas is speaking in Italian, since she was married to an Italian and 90% of her repertoire was in Italian. This is where Jolie will probably lack. Callas was a polyglot, fluent in English, Greek, Italian, and French.
@@lissandrafreljord7913 I ain’t reading all that shyt they both look rather old. The end
@@Bunny11344 Lol. Okay.
i hope she gets an other oscar this role fits her like a glove
Through what venue will this film be showñ?
@@shirleyrombough8173 it would be a film but is in productions now
Can't wait!
Looking forward to this one 😍
Angelina will win Best Actress Oscar❤
Anything with Maria callas I'm buying
Both are just as beautiful and stunning as my now late mum ❤. Too bad she died way too soon
I hope she wins the Oscar for this
😂😂😂no way
Won't happen. She's no Marion Cotillard...
@@justinwilliams7290 Angelina Jolie already has an Oscar and doesn't need comparisons, she will definitely will be nominated if not win.
@@TomNayers-en1mz someone's a hater 🤡 you haven't even watched the film while she already has an Oscar
I always thought that Lady Gaga or Anne Hathaway would make a great Maria Callas. But I’m excited to see Angelina in the role. She very seldomly disappoints in her roles. She is definitely passionate enough to portray Maria Callas. I wonder if she will sing though…that would be the toughest part!
No way anybody today, singer or actress, could do a passable Callas. Hopefully she becomes an excellent lip-syncer. With the magic of modern technology it could possibly briefly suspend belief. With any other voice singing? Impossible.
As I've read it's about her last few years when she lived in Paris and she had problems with voice and didn't sing so most likely you won't hear but if that happens like most biopics, original recordings will be used.
@@k.stacey7389 Angelina won't even have to lipsync in this movie. If you are familiar with the works of Pablo Larrain (Jackie, Spencer), his biopics are done in snapshot approach so usually the story takes place in a short time period down to a few days or less, "Maria" which set in 1970s Paris where Callas was no longer performing
Cool! Looking forward to it.
I’m not really a AJ fan, but I can see how she could really be the one to pull this off. It’s not like they could ever find anybody with the looks, stage presence AND voice to do it, so two out of three will have to do.
This is interesting.Angelina Jolie is a great actress.She"s Brilliant in ""GIA".Am sure she will be Brilliant in "Maria Callas".
I really hope she gets her second oscar for this film.
No
@@TomNayers-en1mz I mean emma stone got one for lala land....and Jennifer Lawrence got one for a tacky b grade movie. Why no to this ?
@@GermanPrincess-pe8rl i dont thing she can sing as callas and she doesn't looklike her
@@TomNayers-en1mz She is portraying her final months before her death. Which maria callas wasn't even singing at that time and was bone skinny. So angelina fits the role.
In this day and age they still can’t get a Greek to play a Greek? So much for inclusivity! Everyone but Greeks it seems!!!!!
Be happy they didn't pick a black actress
@@eliph4165A black actress would not have been greek, and Angelina is not greek either, makes no difference to me🤷♀️
They could have at least chosen someone who looks like Maria, but instead they chose the most conventionally attractive actress by hollywood standards.
@@whateveryouliketocallme7092 yeah i would rather Queen Victoria played by black african than played by white Greek 🙄🙄🙄🙄 bfsrrr
Angelina Jolie Bertrand Voight the most charming and carismatic actress of Hollywood. ❤❤❤❤❤ she is an ANGEL ❤❤❤❤.
She is very very SPECIAL PERSON. I LOVE ANGELINA.
Obviously this casting decision was based on box office needs, not artistic ones.
I agree
The director knows better and as you watched the video he praised her commitment and preparation for the film + he casted Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy and both of them did great job and received Oscar nominations so I'm sure Angelina will be brilliant as well.
Jolie as Maria Calllas??
Wow..
Interesting 😍
Brava callas
There’s a difference between a Hollywood bombshell and a great star of the operatic stage! It would have been interesting to have one of today’s great opera stars play the role and sing the arias which clearly Angelina should not attempt. 😂
Like who?... I think Jolie is the best... The voice will be dubbed by the actual recordings of callas... As for acting I do not think any opera singer currently on stage can be as convincing a screen actress as Angie...
Funny thing is even Maria herself as great as she was as a theatre actress... She bombed on film in medea.
No one today can sing the way Callas did. New school opera singing is not the same as old school opera singing. The singers today sing more along the lines of the Joan Sutherland and Leontyne Price type of singing schools. Very bright voices, always round and beautiful sound, but zero personality and weight. It's as if they have a helium balloon stuck in their throat. Very glottal and muffled sound, with weak chest voices, that it becomes so monochromatic and boring, with no actual temperament, and displays of true anger, passion, jealousy, etc. Emphasizing on too much mask singing leads to a very poor balance of chiaroscuro (too much light, not enough dark and weight). This makes a lot of modern opera singers not properly develop a dramatic heavyweight voice, which Callas was known for (literally no real Wagnerian singers are exist today). Plus, Callas' voice was rare in the sense that it had the extraordinary mixture of heavy weight and agility to sing dramatic and coloratura roles. She was like a heavy-weight champ who could do elegant ballerina twirls, just standing at the tip of her toe.
No hay nadie que pudiera cantar como Maria ádemas del color de voz y te corrijo algo no fue una "estrella" fue una leyenda.
Jolie isn't as beautiful and of course she can't sing... But then again no actor can't compete with her, so they needed to pick someone. But I would have hoped to see someone else to be honest.
SAG-AFTRA and the studios have concluded negotiations today and will continue on Wednesday.
Both sides will work independently on the deal tomorrow.
I am a huge callas fan and I think the casting is perfect... Its not like Jolie has to sing... And it's about Maria's last year's... She wadn doing much singing anyway..
Callas is so much more beautiful and different features. Some new actress from Greece etc would have been better.
@@tindikukka yeah but Angelina Jolie has the name... Who would watch a callas movie with an unknown actress apart from opera fans?
@@vicky-yx4dy Well, I would. But not with Jolie. Because she got the role only by her name.
@@tindikukka well Pablo Larraín knows better, that's why he casted her only because of her talent and even praised her commitment and preparation.
Everyones striking but her , the wealthiest of them.
Can’t wait to watch Jolie crush this role. ❤❤❤
Really??? That's the best they could find to play her????
Lady Gaga would have killed it...
Wow👏👏 Estoy ansiosa por ver la pelicula❤❤❤
As long as she is just acting and not singing. Pleeeeease!
Original recordings will be used.
She doesn't have to sing because this movie isn't about singing.
It's about her last few years and about her life and won't be singing
Such a Tragic story, i just can't see Angelina playing her..i would have chosen Penelope Cruz for sure!
They already tried Paz Vegas in the Nicole Kidman biopic of Grace Kelly, and Paz failed miserably in the accent, physical presence, attitude, personality, and lip-synching.
Angelina is the greatest actress of our time, how many biopics has she already done where she looked ZERO like the characters she was portraying & it still didn't mean a thing to the masterpiece quality of whole film in its entirety because of how talented of a method actress Angelina really truly is. Gia, Mariane Pearl, Christine Collins, she looked nothing like these women & it still didn't matter. I don't know anything about Lisa Rowe though I've never seen a single image of her before but she still won a best supporting actress Oscar for her portrayal for her too. How dare yall question the Queen's ability to pull this one off as well.
Well the director did see her
this I'm looking foward to. Jolie is a great actress. After Lara Croft she threw herself into the action movies, but she has real talent. Just watch her in Gia and Girl intrerrupted. So I hope she will continue with serious roles and I can"t wait!
She was great in A Mighty Heart and Changeling too
Maria Calles was Greek. Is there some reason a Greek actress couldn't be found?
Queen Charlotte was german, she casted as Black african plss
@@PermenBoba-dq3jbthat was complete fiction not a biography
@@ariannam.6266 uh huh say that to Black Cleopatra 🥴
@PermenBoba-dq3jb yeah exactly! She was an Egyptian of Greek decend! Why is it so hard to have accurate casting?!
@PermenBoba-dq3jb so? Maria Callas was so honest. Jolie is the opposite. Plus nothing in common in energy and principles. Shame on the direction.
I think Lady Gaga would have been a better casting decision, however.
shes too young.
Shes almost 40 and if she stopped the botox for 6 months she would be less smooth. They could make it work, she has that 'ethnic' look to her and although still far mnore beautiful than Callas, it would be workable whereas Madame Jolie will always just look like herself.@@monikav9415
casting director should be fired for this choice.
We should have helena paparizou. She looks more similar to Maria than Angelina. What would be better than a beautiful Greek diva portraying another greek diva
No1 would have cared, firstly Pablo Larraín casted Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy and Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana but none of them looked liked the real life women but did brilliant job and received Oscar nominations so stop complaining while director already praised her commitment and preparation and has already won Oscar.
Oh dear .. Ms Callas was a voluptuous, intelligent, deep and brilliant singer- please no to this poor casting
Voluptuous is one work nobody would use to describe Maria after 1953
You haven't even watched the movie yet
Wrong on so many levels.
One of the most pivotal moment in Maria’s life was when she lost weight, turning from voluptuous to actually skinny. It has impact on her voice and personal life. Something a biopic like this should hightlight… casting someone skinny like Angelina is spot on.
Hope she changed her nose , not only because the academy seems to LOVE those changes and it would ensure the Óscar, but It would help the performance to be more real
Μαρίες υπάρχουν πολλές, θεωρώ λάθος να δώσουν τίτλο "Μαρία" και όχι "Μαρία Κάλλας", πολύ απλά.
Eva Mendes would have been a great Maria Callas
I TOTALLY agree! Eva would have been phenomenal. 👏🌟👏
Angelina is Too Pretty to Play Callas And Doesn't Look Like An Earthy Mediterranean Woman.
Unless The Make up Department Worked Very Hard & Created Something Believable...
It's Pablo Larraín film and he casted Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana and Natalie Portman as Jackie Kennedy and both of them did brilliant job and received Oscar nominations and in this case the director already praised for her commitment and preparation so I'm sure she will do great.
She is a terrible choice to play this Greek woman .
Yeah
I actually see the resemblance
Me too
I 😅 concur
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Lady Gaga should have been tapped for this instead of that ridiculous Joker movie. Maybe she'd be able to get an oscar...
Yeah, not bad, but I prefer Loredana Grimaudo.
Lady gaga would have been great for this role:)
For once they mandated to age her I wonder if it’s the makeup
Love Jolie but i dont see anyone making a fuss about her not being greek. Where are all the enraged people who get mad over fiction? This is a biography! Why not cast a Greek or of greek decend?
Role cut for Lady Gaga . Huge casting error here
Rachel Weisz would be the best for this role
Cate Blanchett with dark makeup and hair would have looked as the spitting image of Callas.
not really but Lady Gaga would. Same big ole schnozz.
maria, honey, i'm so sorry
Maria Callas was so beautiful. Jolie isn't in the same level to be honest but not the worst choice I guess.
You mean the opposite 😂
@@ntinavanian5197 No, I mean what I write.
She may have had a beautiful voice but its a pretty big fact that the lady wasn't beautiful. She actually looked quite grotesque IMO. She wasn't conventionally beautiful whatsoever. She was glamorous, theres a difference. @@tindikukka
@@justinwilliams7290She wasn’t beautiful?!! Fix your eyes. She was stunning.
@@justinwilliams7290She’s far more unique looking than the cookie cutter Jolie. To call her grotesque shows your envy really.
No filming at lake Garda where her house is?
Noooo!!! the film tells about the time when she lived in Paris for the last years
Monica Bellucci sarebbe stata perfetta.
Angelina is better actress
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they need to change her nose then maybe... they are very different .totally
Eyes and lips too
They can’t change the nose because they have a different face shape. Maria’s nose matched her striking features. If you change Jolie’s nose, it’ll look weird.
she is not an impersonator but an actress.
Nope! Terrible casting.
Gosh ,Angelina is the worst actress,she got only look and even now faded away a bit,all her movies are boring,she will destroy another movie
Someone's a hater 🤡🤡🤡🤡
Another flop
LOL funny how you judge a book by its cover so fast! you must be living an unhappy life every single day
Then go watch Marvel films.
It's so hilarious. But it wasn't a comedy what they meant to do, right?
Does Angelina sing?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LOL. I'm crying!!!!
She won't have to sing in this novie. She won't even have to lipsync if you are familiar with the works of Pablo Larrain, his biopics are snapshot approach so usually the story takes place in a short time period down to a few days or less, "Maria" sets in 1970s Paris where Callas was no longer performing
Worst casting
Wrong.
Don't compare Great Diva M.Kallas with Angelina.Singer Celine Dion looked more like Maria...
Terrible choice.
No. Jolie is NOT Maria.
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I think Angelina has the attitude to play it... but really no Greek actors in a film dedicated to a Greek lady... an American, an Italian and a Turkish play the leading roles.... how can you possibly touch Maria's spirit!!!
be grateful she isn't black 🙄
Well, Maria was American-Greek Soprano so I'm sure Angelina will be able to do a great job
Angelina Jolie as Maria 🤦. Whose sick idea is that? The only actress who should have played her on the big screen was Irene Papas. Skeleton Angelina is an insult to this legendary divas.
She has the depth & nuance to carry the role - Gia, the Changeling Mighty Heart & if weight difference was such a big deal they could pad her out but it isn't.
Why did they choose Angelina, a scrawny bag of bones to play Maria?
You must be joking! 😮
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Future flop.
Flop !!!
Very big failure...not even Maria.. could play Callas
What a distasteful disaster.
Can you please breathe and speak a bit more human, less American so (real) people can FEEL what you’re talking about and let it integrate? I know most Americans don’t like to feel and prefer talking about money, and everything which isn’t natural, uplifting or what has real value. So maybe these lines can hep you to be more natural, more spontaneous and less robotic… maybe not.
I had to turn off the sound to be able to ENJOY a bit the pictures, as there is NOT EVEN ONE SINGLE real SEQUENCE of the movie!
Nothing common with the Greek Opera singer. Wrong choice of actress.
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I like your take but I don’t like your reporter! So bored with your job during Angelina’s finest moment… Well, come on, I bet you can SOUND a bit more enthusiastic than that… Oh, wait, what’s that? Donald? You’re fired! Yes, I said it Mr President… Goodnight, my lovely wife.