Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor “I’ll sing when I’m ready to sing.” That’s a line from Pablo Larrain’s “Maria,” now streaming on Netflix, based on the final days of opera superstar Maria Callas.
The film is peppered with flashbacks of arias by Verdi and Puccini when Callas was at the height of her success. And was Angelina Jolie, who portrays Callas, ready to sing them?
Absolutely not. She might be a trained actor — as a young teen, she took acting classes at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute — but she’s not a trained singer.
For Larrain to make the film, with Jolie as his leading lady, he knew one thing, he wanted this performance to be believable.
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