This time, the celebrated star takes on the role of the legendary opera singer.
Thirteen years after she directed her Golden Globe-nominated debut feature film Land of Blood and Honey in and around Budapest, Angelina Jolie will return to Hungary in October, but this time she will be in front of the camera as the title character.
The Golden Globe and Oscar-winning actress will play the legendary opera singer Maria Callas in Chilean director Pablo Larrain's film Maria, which deals with the artist's sad last years spent in Paris.
This will be Larrain's first film, which he will shoot in the Hungarian capital, and the work will take several months. That way, the luckier ones can bump into Jolie and the crew during the fall.
Larrain has long been fascinated by the story of the tragic fate of Maria Callas, a Greek immigrant living in New York, who rose to become the most celebrated soprano of her time, the undisputed number one star of the world's opera houses.
And Angelina Jolie is already waiting for the shooting. As you said, I will do my best to meet the challenges.
Pablo Larraín is a director I have admired for a long time. It's a dream to be able to tell Maria's story with her and the input of screenwriter Steven Knight," Jolie stated.
