Angelina Jolie: I've embraced being the older woman
Movie star Angelina Jolie has admitted that she feels "like an older woman".
Angelina Jolie has embraced being an "older woman".
The 49-year-old actress plays opera singer Maria Callas in the biographical drama film 'Maria', and Angelina has explained how particular aspects of the movie chimed with her own reality.
Speaking to IndieWire, Angelina said: "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."
Angelina wasn't very familiar with opera music before she began shooting 'Maria'.
The Oscar-winning actress confessed: "I grew up in America. In other countries, they understand how essential and important it is, and it’s much more a part of the culture, but not where I was raised [Los Angeles].
"I had been introduced to [Maria] but it was a complete discovery of this new art form, to come in and transform my life and teach me all of the different operas.
"I hope that most people however they relate to the film go into a discovery and they let themselves feel it and they try to sing it. If I can do it…"
Angelina recently revealed that she spent "months" preparing to sing in 'Maria'.
The actress said at the Telluride Film Festival: "I had seven months of opera classes, great teachers and Italian classes, and a supportive team that were going to help me."
