One of the most viewed images of the week he has starred Angelina Jolie when, accompanied by her children Maddox, Zahara and Paxhas posed on the red carpet at the New York Film Festival wearing a 1950s design by the French couturier Madame Grès. Angelina Jolie was grateful with a resplendent smile for all the compliments she was receiving not only for her beauty, but for his impeccable interpretation in Mariahe biopic by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, focused on the last days of Maria Callas. The actress had just landed from the Venice Film Festival where, after a preview of the film was screened, The audience applauded her for eight glorious minutes..
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© GETTY IMAGESPutting yourself in the shoes of ‘La Divina’ has been, without a doubt, a challenge for the actress, who had never sung in public and who trained vocally for more than half a year to face his character. During this time of promoting the film, Angelina Jolie has remembered with horror, but also with pride, how He had to overcome all his fears to be able to issue the grades in a scene full of extras: “I was terribly nervous. My children were there and they helped close the door so that no one else would come in. I was shaking.”
María Callas trembled, as Angelina Jolie did half a century later, and also suffered unspeakably to control her nerves prior to her appearances on stages around the world. She was a singer and actress. He interpreted each of his roles with an emotionality never seen before. He lived the lives of his characters with devastating honesty and endowed them with exceptional humanity. “She’s strangely vulnerable and human for a legend.“wrote a critic of The New York Times about Callas, when it reappeared in 1973, after eight years of silence. Those same words, that strange vulnerability and paradoxical fragile strength, could have been written for Angelina Jolie.
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Next June, Angelina Jolie will be fifty years oldthe age that María Callas was when He confined himself permanently to his Parisian apartmenthe moved away from the spotlight and, according to many, let himself die of love, when he was barely fifty-three years old. According to Pablo Larraín, Angelina Jolie has done a prodigious job because she has managed to blend in with her character in front of the cameras in an exceptional way: “She was so real that we just let her act. She can let you in when she wants and create distance when she wants. It’s a dance of vulnerability.” What chapters of her life might Angelina Jolie have drawn on to put herself in the shoes of Maria Callas and make her loneliness and pain believable? The life of Maria Callas had a before and a after Aristotle Onassislike that of Angelina Jolie, saving the distance, can also be counted considering the before and after of Brad Pitt.
Let us remember the tragic sentimental story of one of the most perfect voices of the 20th century. In 1968, after nine years of intense romantic encounters with the Greek magnate, Callas read a piece of news in the newspaper that tore her heart: the man she loved, for whom she had given up everything, starting with her career, He married Jacqueline Kennedy on October 20 of that same year.‘America’s widow’. “It was like receiving a blow to the head,” he said years later, “it was horrible. I’m trying to survive. For him I abandoned an incredible career, in a complicated job. I pray to God to help me get through this moment.”
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© GETTY IMAGESThe marriage between Jackie and Aristotle was neither very happy nor very unhappy. She moved freely, and he enjoyed his lifestyle, in his beloved Skorpios and in Paris. The vitalist titan, however, died on March 15, 1975, at the American Hospital in the French capital. Next to him was his daughter Christina. María Callas, faced with the news of the death of the great love of her life, was devastated: “My adventure with Onassis was a failure; my friendship with him, a success,” she revealed. They never stopped communicating. She never stopped loving the indomitable point guard. He came to miss Callas’ sentimental explosiveness, compared to Jackie’s coldness and pragmatism, whom he always reproached for her exorbitant level of spending. Callas forgave him, but did not forget the affront.
Neither forget nor forgive
For now, Angelina Jolie He neither forgives nor forgets the hard moments he lived with Brad Pittwith whom he starred in a twelve-year, apparently unbreakable love story, but condemned to the most resounding failure. Since their eyes met in 2004, during the filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smiththe turbulent life that the actress had led until then gave way to a peaceful existence, focused on her large family and career. In addition to the three adopted children of the actressto whom Brad Pitt gave a last name – although they have now decided to legally renounce it –, tThey had three biological children: Shiloh and twins Vivienne and Knox.. Angelina Jolie does not live, therefore, the devastating loneliness of Maria Callas, although she has known how to interpret it in an exemplary way. Far from that overwhelming loneliness, the actress and her children are a pineapple. She knows that she counts on them for everything, just as they know that they are their mother’s priority.
© GETTY IMAGESWhen the bomb of their separation exploded, in September 2016, at first, Angelina Jolie reserved all the details that led her to such a drastic decision due to “irreconcilable differences”: “I separated for the well-being of my family and it was the right decision. I continue to heal wounds, just like my children. Some have taken advantage of my silence and children see lies about them in the media, but I remind them that they know their own truth and their own mind. In fact, they are six very brave, very strong young people.” After eight years, The Jolie-Pitt war continues its course with hardly any truces in two blocks: on the one hand, Brad Pitt; on the other, Angelina surrounded by her six children.
Maria CallasHowever, he had no one to fight for and protect. He died in absolute solitude. The writer Nicholas Cage published, in 2001, greek firea highly documented chronicle based on the relationship between ‘La Divina’ and Aristotle Onassis. The author brought to light a sad fact that added more misfortunes to the weak shoulders of Callas. According to the documents she presented as irrefutable evidence of her investigation, the singer, pregnant by the Greek shipowner, hid the pregnancy for eight months and gave birth to a premature baby on March 30, 1960, at the Dezza clinic in Milan. His son only lived two hours. A serious respiratory problem took his life when he had not yet opened his eyes.
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If on September 19, 2016, the world was baffled upon the news of the separation of the Hollywood model couplealmost thirty-nine years earlier, on September 17, 1977, the obituary of Maria Callas published in The New York Times left opera lovers orphaned and somewhat devastated at having been unable to do anything for their star: “Maria Callas, the soprano whose intensely dramatic performances made her the most exciting opera singer of her time, died yesterday of a stroke to the heart in his home in Paris”. There were those who said it was a cardiac arrest. Some slipped in the theory of suicide; Others clung to the hypothesis that had died of love; and a few romantics considered the theory that Aristotle Onassis felt alone, lost and abandoned in the afterlife and asked him to accompany him on his journey of no return to the beyond.
© GETTY IMAGESHer death caused the sudden birth of the legend, although that legend had germinated while she was still alive. When, in 1956, the magazine time wrote a very critical article against her, Maria Callas responded by denying up to twenty-four points. In one of them she clarified: “It is not true that I live in conflict, I hate it. Knowing how to defend and emerge victorious is not a fault, but a good thing, but it does not mean that I like battles.” Again, these words could have been spoken exactly like that by Angelina Jolie today. Despite everything that separates them, they are united by their exquisite fragility and their captivating talent.
