Angelina Jolie covers WSJ, confirms "Maleficent 3"

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״She is signed on to act in several more, including a third Maleficent. Last year, she struck an international film and TV deal with British-based company Fremantle. And she’s also producing a Broadway show, The Outsiders, which opens in April; she discovered this musical version based on the book by S.E. Hinton at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego thanks to her youngest daughter, Vivienne, who is now working as an assistant on the show."

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/angelina-jolie-atelier-maria-callas-cf62ff38

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Can’t wait for her as Maria Callas!

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Ageless queen

She is the epitome of a superstar.. everyone knows Angelina Jolie! 

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Yay!!!!!

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Maria, Eternals 2, Maleficent 3……keep them coming Queen!

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How beautiful this woman can be

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Stunning, perfect, amazing, incredible

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Yes! I absolutely love the Maleficent movies and have been waiting for a third one. 

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The BTW prosthetics are coming back 

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She’s perfect for this role. Cant wait. What a beautiful woman 

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Sis I loved Maleficent 2 but we are the only 2 people in the world that did

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I didn't know that Warriors Social Justice has a magazine now

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love her for speaking up for Palestine  one of the few celebs that i trust 

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After years of healing, the actress is starting a new fashion venture and paring back her Hollywood presence: ‘I wouldn’t be an actress today’

Angelina Jolie has found her voice. But first, she says, she lost it. 

It was during hours of training to portray the opera singer Maria Callas in her turbulent final days, for an upcoming movie in which Jolie’s voice will be blended with the diva’s famously dramatic renditions of operatic arias.

 

“I’m a little terrified to do it,” says Jolie, 48, who has never considered herself a singer. “I’m the one who whispers ‘Happy Birthday’ at the party,” she says. During the 2018 filming of Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, she noticed that her voice had changed register since she first played the fairy queen. “My body reacts very strongly to stress,” she says. “My blood sugar goes up and down. I suddenly had Bell’s palsy six months before my divorce.”

It’s been seven years since Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, the father of her six children. It’s been seven years of negotiation and court filings on everything from custody to the partial sale of their Provençal Château Miraval property and winery. Seven years, she says, of being mostly at home, of thinking, of avoiding work that pulls her away from her family.

“We had to heal,” she says. “There are things we needed to heal from.”

Jolie says she feels more comfortable in her body than ever. ‘It’s like I see my scars and my things, and I feel like I’ve lived,’ she says. 

In that time, Jolie has appeared in only five films, nothing compared to the multiple-premieres-per-year pace she had maintained pretty consistently since playing a pixie-cut punk in 1995’s Hackers. The last time she walked a red carpet was to promote the 2021 Marvel movie Eternals, and she has made few public appearances since. Her newest venture, which launched in November, isn’t a celebrity beauty line with ads bearing her face—it’s a sustainable-fashion company where the names of tailors and customers may appear on tags alongside that of the brand, Atelier Jolie. Her next movie is a highbrow international film, not a big-budget blockbuster. Yet she remains overwhelmingly famous, a bona fide global movie star—remember those?—breaking through the vaporous fog of social media. She is indelible despite her best attempts to disappear. 

Jolie cannot be conjured up in our Instagram feeds showing us what supplements she takes, the face cream she has developed or what she uses in her hair, as many of her peers now do. Instead, her social-media presence heavily features her humanitarian work and commentary on current events, such as the Israel-Hamas war. She can be periodically found 20 feet tall on-screen, as Maleficent or Lara Croft or Jane Smith, or through the telescope of news coverage in a war-torn nation. When she does materialize in person, say on a Manhattan sidewalk—silent behind dark sunglasses and wrapped up in a coat like some 21st-century cross between Greta Garbo and Elizabeth Taylor—she appears to be actually going somewhere, often with one of her kids in tow. We are merely glimpsing her at the threshold of her real life: Her walk from the car to the hotel door is not in fact the point.   

Meanwhile, in L.A., “I don’t really have…a social life,” says Jolie. She says she isn’t currently dating. 

“I realized my closest friends are refugees,” she says. “Maybe four out of six of the women that I am close to are from war and conflict.” 

Her children have grown up since their days as tabloid fixations, with the oldest out of college and the youngest in high school. Their voices are ones she trusts. “They are the closest people to me and my life, and they’re my close friends,” she says. “We’re seven very different people, which is our strength.” 

Meanwhile, Jolie is at a career crossroads. The strata under her are shifting: Professionally, she once toggled between major tentpole film franchises, which could guarantee huge box-office returns, and smaller indie dramas. It’s a framework that no longer holds the same certainty: Eternals may have garnered $402 million worldwide, but it was still generally regarded as a disappointment. Jolie may profess to be less interested in Hollywood, but the world is also less interested in Hollywood. Movie stars are becoming an endangered species, leaving the industry grappling with a void. One of this fall’s few theatrical bright spots was not a big-budget, star-studded movie at all, but essentially a highly polished video of Taylor Swift.  

In this new world, Jolie has been able to take on more varied projects. She’s shooting Maria as Callas, her first role in two years, which started production in Paris in October. (The film obtained a SAG-AFTRA interim agreement allowing it to proceed.) She recently finished her fifth directorial effort, Without Blood, a wartime film starring Salma Hayek Pinault and Demián Bichir that she wrote, based on a book by Alessandro Baricco. 

She is signed on to act in several more, including a third Maleficent. Last year, she struck an international film and TV deal with British-based company Fremantle. And she’s also producing a Broadway show, The Outsiders, which opens in April; she discovered this musical version based on the book by S.E. Hinton at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego thanks to her youngest daughter, Vivienne, who is now working as an assistant on the show. 

“I’m very hyphenated,” says Jolie. 

 

https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/film/angelina-jolie-atelier-maria-callas-cf62ff38