Pablo Larraín on Why Angelina Jolie Was Perfect as Maria Callas & Why 'Maria' Was Personal for Him | THR Video - video Dailymotion

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Pablo Larraín expresses how important music is to him, which was why 'Maria' was such a personal project. Plus, he tells THR at the AFI Fest carpet why Angelina Jolie was the perfect person to play Maria Callas.

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00:00You've called this your most personal film yet. Why is this project so personal to you?

00:05well because of the music and

00:09And because probably is the movie that where I have felt so far that I'm more exposed

00:17I'm someone that have I think I know a lot more about

00:22Music than cinema for example, I don't consider myself a cinephile

00:26but I've

00:27Spent many many years of my life listening to music. I try to be a musician

00:32I failed and then opera was somehow my

00:36way to the art form the art world and

00:41and

00:42So it's very intimate my relationship with music with opera and of course with the figure of Maria Callas

00:48And in a way, I feel that

00:51There's a part of me inside of that movie that I that I don't know

00:56I care a lot about it. And I think I

01:00Had the chance I'm very lucky to make the movie Angelina does something really extraordinary and beautiful

01:06But there's a fragment of myself that is inside of that movie that it won't return that I just gave it to it

01:15So that's why I think that's coming from

01:18It sounds like Angelina gave so much of herself to this movie to into this role

01:22How did you know she was the right person to play Maria in this film? I don't know

01:26I don't have a rational answer to that. I

01:28It just feels the right person and I I don't think this movie would exist without her

01:34Was her first and then I invited Steve Knight and then we went to the producers and then we got the money and a new

01:40Distribution. She was the first call I did

01:45And it's someone that can carry that mystery can really

01:50Do that someone has a lot of discipline

01:52But those things are important she can really work and they focus and prepare a role for many many months and get there and

02:00Embrace the story of a woman that we respect that we care

02:05But also that we consider to be fascinating

02:09And that's fascination can be filmed

02:11Hopefully and that is something that she embodies and that's that's the way that she has and cameras so important

02:22You

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