Angelina Jolie and director Pablo Larraín discuss their new movie, Maria, with Melissa Nathoo, talking about the control needed to sing opera and how their children give them the most honest feedback. Report by Nathoom. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00I'm telling you, everybody needs to go.
00:02So far so good. We'll see if we stay in the truck.
00:04They're in my corner, but they're very honest.
00:09Angelina, Pavlo, it's an honour to meet you both.
00:12This movie is so beautifully crafted.
00:15I was just enjoying all the sweeping shots in the doorways
00:18and everything is genuinely really, really beautiful.
00:22Angelina, for you, I know the singing was a hybrid of Maria and yourself,
00:28but is it still the most control that you've had to have over your skills before?
00:34Yes. Well, it's an interesting thing you say, that it's not as much the fruit, but the control.
00:39And I think that's something to, the skill to learn to sing opera,
00:45I think I went into it at first when he asked me if I could sing, I said, sure.
00:48We all do.
00:49We all do, right? We all sing. Sure, I can sing.
00:51Thinking it's a movie singing and it's not.
00:54But to figure out how your body has to make those sounds and control those sounds
01:01and sing in another language and understand the tone,
01:04was understanding my body as an instrument in a way that I hadn't.
01:12I hadn't. And I was very lucky to have wonderful teachers and a great director,
01:17but it was very different.
01:20My body could not make those noises, even if I tried.
01:22See, but I thought so too. I'm telling you, everybody needs to go.
01:26I really try. OK, I'll see if I do.
01:32It's a very controlled and prepared form of art.
01:37Like people prepared for ages to sing properly.
01:42But once they do it, it must be out of control a little bit.
01:46It must be an emotional exercise where you let it go.
01:50Otherwise it feels super controlled and the thing is never out there.
01:53I guess that's why it moves people so much, right?
01:55Of course, because it's especially her.
01:57Maria Callas was very into the technical aspects up until she was on stage.
02:02I know that opera, though, I think is one of your passions as well as cinema.
02:07And then you have an icon like Angelina playing another icon like Maria.
02:11How much of a dream is it to make a movie like this where you get to combine all of those
02:16with essentially one of the best talents in the world?
02:20I was so, so lucky. I feel so blessed.
02:24We see in the film Maria, she confides, well, I say she trusts her housekeeper with her opinion on the singing.
02:31I don't know, maybe because she knows that she'll get a nicer opinion on it.
02:36But for you, who do you trust? For both of you, who do you trust the most in the world
02:41with like giving you their opinion on what you're doing?
02:45You know, maybe Angelina went to someone and you're like, how does this sound?
02:48My children.
02:49Are they brutally honest?
02:50Yeah.
02:51Oh, yeah.
02:52Yeah.
02:53Mine too.
02:54Yeah.
02:55I mean, because they're in my corner, but they're very honest and so they understand
03:00that the truth is the most important.
03:02And so they, yeah, they're not blindly supportive.
03:06They are.
03:07Oh, that's great.
03:08They're honest.
03:09And your kids are the same.
03:10My kids have not said it, but also in, you know, besides people that we really love and
03:16trust, I think it's the opera world.
03:18I think that's the benchmark.
03:20For this film, yeah.
03:22For this film, it's important because we care a lot about what they say.
03:28And so far, so good.
03:30We'll see if we stay in the track.
03:32But we really care about what they say because that is the ultimate.
03:36Absolutely.
03:37I think they're going to be very impressed.
03:39I hope they are.
03:40I was very impressed.
03:41Congratulations, both.
03:42Lovely to meet you.
03:44Thank you so much.