Angelina Jolie Tells Reporter Asking About an Angelina Jolie Biopic: ‘That Gets the Most Insane Question Award … Let’s Hope There Isn’t One’

variety.com:

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Angelina Jolie has played many a real-life figure throughout her Oscar-winning career, from supermodel Gia Carangi (“Gia”) to journalist Mariane Pearl (“A Mighty Pearl”) and now opera singer Maria Callas (“Maria”).

But she’s not interested in having her own life story become a big screen biopic. Asked by The Sunday Times what an Angelina Jolie biopic would look like, the real Jolie quickly shut the topic down. “That gets the most insane question award,” Jolie responded. “When you’re a public person and you’re playing [someone else], you’re conscious of how you would hate for somebody to interpret your life or think they understand your life, so we tried to be thoughtful [with Maria].

Let’s hope there isn’t one about my life.” Jolie is currently a frontrunner to land an Oscar nomination for best actress thanks to her work in “Maria,” which centers on the opera singer’s final days as she drifts through memories of her acclaimed and turbulent career.

The actor learned to sing opera in order to record her live vocals on set. “I walked into room with the piano, and somebody said, ‘OK, let’s see where you’re at.’ And I got really emotional.