My kids saw my pain on set, says Angelina Jolie
My kids saw my pain on set, says Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie is notoriously private.
But in a new interview with BBC News, the Hollywood star spoke candidly about her experience of working on set with her eldest sons, saying they saw "the pain" she usually hides from them.
The actress is starring in a new biopic, titled Maria, about opera singer Maria Callas.
Two of Jolie's six children with ex-husband Brad Pitt, Maddox and Pax, took on roles as production assistants on the film.
"The character [Callas] has a lot of pain and they've of course seen me go through a lot of things, but they hadn't experienced me expressing a lot of the pain that usually a parent hides from a child," she said.
"So they were there to witness some of that, but then we would hug or they would bring me cups of tea."
Jolie added that it was "a new way" of finding out how to be honest with her children about her feelings, "in an even greater way".
Written by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, the film focuses on Callas's final years, in the 1970s, when she was living in Paris.
With Jolie taking on acting roles relatively infrequently in recent years, the film has provided something of a comeback narrative for her and could lead to an Oscar nomination for best actress.
Callas was a US-born Greek soprano, and one of opera's best-known singers.
In Maria, a blend of Jolie's own voice and original recordings by Callas are used in the singing scenes.
The actress learnt to sing opera for the role, something she describes as "very physically demanding".
Training took around seven months, she said.
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"We started with regular singing classes and it was challenging in many ways, but when the opera classes began, what it requires with your breathwork and your body and just the force of what you push through yourself, it's just a very different physicality."
Jolie, whose previous film credits include Changeling, Maleficent, Salt, and Mr & Mrs Smith, said she hasn't sung before, and was "actually quite shy about singing".
"It was probably one of the areas in my life that I was hesitant," she said.
But she indicated that it was also something she enjoyed.
"One of the greatest privileges of being an actor is you often are supported by a crew to try something and explore something you've never done and this certainly was most challenging," she said.
