Angelina Jolie has opened up about emotional experiences due to which she “lost” her voice.
During her conversation with Cynthia Erivo for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, Jolie talked about finding her voice for Maria.
“I didn’t know how much I had lost my voice. Maybe when I lost my mother, maybe when someone hurt me, whatever it was, the different things that had made it smaller and locked it away,” the Oscar-winner told Erivo. She added, “So finding it and letting it come out was very emotional, and such a feeling that I wish for everybody to have.”
Initially Jolie was “terrified” to learn to sing opera to play Maria Callas, however she added that she “had the right teachers, Italian classes, opera singing, body breathing.”
Jolie admitted, “People keep quoting me because I made, not the mistake— I admitted it was like a therapy. But it really is.”
“Because I didn’t realize the practice of it and the learning of it is one thing, but it was finding my voice and letting my voice out that was really hard for me. And I was really emotional about it,” she added.
Jolie went on to say, “I wish everybody could know what you feel when you sing at the top of your beautiful voice, and you know what can come out of your body.”
“And it’s not just what you can do for an audience or how you tell a story, it’s that you can make that sound. Maria said something; she said she doesn’t like to hear records because they’re perfect,” the actress added.
