Angelina Jolie has a stylish way of channeling Maria Callas on the red carpet — the iconic opera singer she plays in Pablo Larraín’s new biopic, Maria.
On Thursday, August 29, the actress, 49, hit the red carpet at the Venice International Film Festival wearing a Tamara Ralph chiffon dress and faux fur stole, according to Vogue – and a designer brooch that actually belonged to Callas, who died in 1977.
According to the magazine, many of the famous opera singer’s brooches now reside in the Cartier collection, a Maria costume designer Massimo Cantini Parrini worked with Cartier to source some of Callas’ finest jewelry. According to Jolie, she wore the actual designer pieces as a nod to Callas not only on the red carpet, but also on screen in the biopic.
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Angelina Jolie on the red carpet.
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Her red carpet brooch was the Rose Ouvrante from 1972 in the shape of a flower with diamonds, emeralds, sapphires and rubies. The jewelry – which Jolie wears in the film – also has a special mechanism that opens and closes the flower petals.
“I was also mesmerized by how he transformed from a closed flower that then bloomed,” Jolie said Vogue. “I like to think it brought a smile. A little secret in a piece.”
Earlier Thursday, Jolie paired one of her own black Atelier Jolie dresses with a 1971 Panthère brooch, which features classic gold Cartier panthers with emeralds for eyes and a white chalcedony gemstone, the magazine reported. This brooch was also featured in Maria, added Jolie.
“You can imagine how special it was to wear a piece of jewelry that was hers,” she said.
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Jolie has previously been candid about how she felt connected to Callas — whose life is known to be somewhat tragic — and fully immersed herself in the world of opera to understand her character. Earlier Thursday, she spoke at a press conference with the rest of the cast and crew about how she felt about Callas’ story.
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Close-up of a flower brooch.
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Angelina Jolie says she shares ‘vulnerability’ with Maria Callas in Venice: ‘There’s a lot I won’t say’
“Well, there’s a lot that I’m not going to say in this room that you probably know or assume,” Jolie told the crowd to laughter.
“I think the way I treated her might be a surprise – [it was] probably a part of her that’s extremely soft and there’s no place in the world for it to be as soft as she really was, and as emotionally open as she really was,” the Oscar winner said.
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The first photos from the movie ‘Maria.’ Pablo Larrain.
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O Callas added: “More than anything, I share her vulnerability.”
Based on the true stories of Callas, Maria will tell the “tumultuous, beautiful and tragic story of the life of the world’s greatest opera singer, relived and reimagined during her final days in Paris in the 1970s,” according to a press release.
Details of Callas’ life have already been explored in Lyndsy Spence’s biography of the star Roles of Diva: The Hidden Life of Maria Callaswhich was excerpted in the April 2021 article The Guardian.
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