Angelina Jolie & Pablo Larraín Break Down 7 Maria Callas Looks

Hello, my name is Pablo and we have Angelina, here

and we're gonna go through some of the Life in Looks

of Maria Callas.

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Voila.

[Angelina] This is our favorite dress.

Yes, this is our favorite dress, a dress that I tried

to kept from the production.

I failed.

It is very beautiful, this is from Medea.

It's an extraordinary piece and I remember how beautifully

it was made.

They made one for the film that is identical

and was beautifully hand painted,

I think it's why we both loved it so much.

I loved it and I also loved the scene

when you walked down the stairs holding this knife

after a pretty dark situation,

you played it very beautifully and we shot it

with different cameras.

It's a very accomplish thing that Massimo,

our costume designer did.

Let's see what else is in here.

That's my favorite piece of music, Anna Bolena.

It was an extraordinary thing to wear.

I remembered wondering before I did it,

before I understood how to sing.

Yes. Some of the pieces.

And it was going to block

your breathing. I was convinced

that it was gonna, yeah, block my breathing.

Yeah. And that I couldn't in them.

But actually it helped. And I remember that you were

very in to it and you were signing

in front of a lot of people.

It was beautiful.

And this. Extraordinary costume.

She only wore this hair fixture for the picture

of the poster of the production that then become the record,

but I don't think she ever wore it on the stage.

And I loved it so much that we made a little bit

of a cheat. [Angelina laughing]

And you're wearing it on the stage.

Yeah. In the film,

but it's very beautiful and it was very special.

How did you feel when you weared it?

Oh, I loved it.

It is certainly one of those costumes

where you're transformed when you put it on.

And it was very, very beautifully made

and very delicate.

It helped me with the character

because it was such a strong look and the craftsmanship

and the drama.

Okay, you remember when you wore this?

Very classic white scarf. [bright music]

The Christina which is the famous Onassis boat.

Yeah, and we were very fortunate to shoot

on the real boat.

[Pablo] What are your feelings when we were shooting

on the boat?

A lot of feelings because you feel history.

The different people that were there and the time and place

in history.

Churchill was on the boat.

But I think I was also taken by the slower life,

it wasn't a bunch of cameras everywhere.

It was paintings on the walls, pianos, places to have dinner

and you can imagine that the time spent was thinking

and talking about life and politics and art

it made me kind of wish I'd experience that

because things today they feel very fast.

[Pablo] There are so many beautiful dresses and glasses.

And they were dressed which wasn't done in some way

like just being fancy or spending money,

it was about a little bit of formality

and the days they were living had a different quality.

Well, this one is important for us.

[bright music] This one

is very much how she is in the film, our Maria.

I like the expression on her face.

[Pablo] Yeah, me too.

And the hair's so emblematic. Yeah.

She was a very elegant woman.

She was very, very hard working woman

and she was a very thoughtful woman.

There was always these grand things about her life

that were remembered whether it be a look

or something in the press or whatever it may be,

but really, that's probably her in between going

to a rehearsal or work.

Her fashion evolution was always going towards simplicity.

And what I remember the older she was,

at least in the pictures, she was always wearing

more simple things with less designs.

Yeah, as she got older? Yeah, I think so.

Well, I think also there was a time in her life

she was hiding a little bit more, she wasn't feeling well.

She didn't want the public

and she didn't want the attention, at all.

I don't know if she ever really wanted it,

I think she just wanted to work.

She wanted it on stage.

But do you think when she became some kind

of a fashion icon, she was aware of that?

Yeah, she's an artist, so I think she liked shapes

and design, she wore clothes very well.

I think she was very smart and she always knew

what was happening around her.

So here we are.

This is from Norma, which probably the opera

that she sang the most.

All over the world, very beautiful dress

that we did a very similar version that I remember,

if I'm not wrong one of the first time you sang this

in front of the crew.

Yes. In her apartment

in the kitchen. In the kitchen.

There was something really beautiful about the scene,

to anybody else that would be extraordinary

that someone comes in and sings opera

and to show the relationship where she's so used to it,

Bruna. Yes.

That's she's making breakfast.

As she's singing. And this is another day.

And it's Maria Callas just signing,

just signing. Just feeding the dogs

and signing opera.

I think this is from the farewell tour.

It's a very emblematic dress.

Massimo did a very beautiful version that really fit you,

I think. Yeah.

You looked wonderful in it.

And I think this is the period where she was most likely

struggling with use of drugs,

that maybe in excess. Well, her health issues.

Yes.

Yeah, I don't think she was an addict,

she was actually really sick

and so she would decide certain things

that would take the pain away.

I think there was just something so much bigger

happening with her.

I don't think she suffered addiction

I think it's a way to oddly, to connect with her herself.

I think there are many reasons why people take drugs,

but I think that the fact that she was

trying to understand herself,

in the film it has a strange value.

[Maria signing in foreign language]

[cameras clicking] My life is opera.

Thank you, Vogue it's been nice to share a small part

of Maria with you.

[pencil scratching] Left handed.

[Angelina laughing]

[pencil scratching]

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[pencil scratching]

Oh, I like your signature. Thank you.

[Angelina laughing]

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