Angelina Jolie on feeling “like an older woman” – and how that affects her acting

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Angelina Jolie has opened up about how she “feels like an older woman” now and how that affects her acting.The actor was speaking in a new interview about her forthcoming biopic Maria, which sees her play opera singer Maria Callas during her final days in 1970s Paris.She told IndieWire: “I’m 49.

I do feel like an older woman now and I embrace that. When I was younger, there were certain pieces of music and certain sounds that matched what I was feeling: I was falling in love, or I was curious about this, or whatever I was going through.“There is nothing that meets what you’re feeling like opera. [Some pieces] are so beautiful, so full of hope and so full of yearning.

Opera is bigger. It is bigger than we allow ourselves to feel in every moment.”Jolie went through extensive training to play the opera singer, with director Pablo Larraín previously saying: “She had to train for a long time.

She trained for over seven months. There’s breathing, there’s posture, there’s accent.“She sang in Italian and French, but mostly Italian.