Pablo Larraín
"When I grow up, I would like to make a movie as good as this one," the "Maria" director said.
Stewart previously worked with Larraín on her Oscar-nominated performance in "Spencer," a film that exists within Larraín's loose trilogy of "Important Women" also featuring "Jackie" and "Maria."
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"Maria" may exist in conversation with "Jackie" and "Spencer," but examines a figure wholly different from its predecessors.
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Following "Jackie" and "Spencer," Pablo Larraín closes his trilogy of historical portraits with an uneven story about a singer in search of her voice.
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Jenkins, moderating a recent AFI Fest talk, also likened Jolie’s transformation into Maria Callas to Jesse Eisenberg becoming Mark Zuckerberg for "The Social Network."
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Jolie is widely tipped as a Best Actress Oscar contender for a performance that involved seven months of opera training.
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The "Spencer" auteur debuted the Steven Knight-written feature at Venice 2024.
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The biopic about the life of opera singer Maria Callas was written by Steven Knight
Jolie's preparation to play the iconic opera singer was "very long, very particular, very difficult," according to the auteur.
"Maria" is Larraín's latest biopic following "Jackie" and "Spencer."
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The film is being written by Steven Knight, who also wrote "Spencer."
