00:00I'm telling you, everybody needs to go.
00:02So far so good. We'll see if we stay in the truck.
00:04They're in my corner, but they're very honest.
00:09Angelina, Pavlo, it's an honour to meet you both.
00:12This movie is so beautifully crafted.
00:15I was just enjoying all the sweeping shots in the doorways
00:18and everything is genuinely really, really beautiful.
00:22Angelina, for you, I know the singing was a hybrid of Maria and yourself,
00:28but is it still the most control that you've had to have over your skills before?
00:34Yes. Well, it's an interesting thing you say, that it's not as much the fruit, but the control.
00:39And I think that's something to, the skill to learn to sing opera,
00:45I think I went into it at first when he asked me if I could sing, I said, sure.
00:48We all do.
00:49We all do, right? We all sing. Sure, I can sing.
00:51Thinking it's a movie singing and it's not.
00:54But to figure out how your body has to make those sounds and control those sounds
01:01and sing in another language and understand the tone,
01:04was understanding my body as an instrument in a way that I hadn't.
01:12I hadn't. And I was very lucky to have wonderful teachers and a great director,
01:17but it was very different.
01:20My body could not make those noises, even if I tried.
01:22See, but I thought so too. I'm telling you, everybody needs to go.
01:26I really try. OK, I'll see if I do.
01:32It's a very controlled and prepared form of art.
01:37Like people prepared for ages to sing properly.
01:42But once they do it, it must be out of control a little bit.
01:46It must be an emotional exercise where you let it go.
01:50Otherwise it feels super controlled and the thing is never out there.
01:53I guess that's why it moves people so much, right?
01:55Of course, because it's especially her.
01:57Maria Callas was very into the technical aspects up until she was on stage.
02:02I know that opera, though, I think is one of your passions as well as cinema.
02:07And then you have an icon like Angelina playing another icon like Maria.
02:11How much of a dream is it to make a movie like this where you get to combine all of those
02:16with essentially one of the best talents in the world?
02:20I was so, so lucky. I feel so blessed.
02:24We see in the film Maria, she confides, well, I say she trusts her housekeeper with her opinion on the singing.
02:31I don't know, maybe because she knows that she'll get a nicer opinion on it.
02:36But for you, who do you trust? For both of you, who do you trust the most in the world
02:41with like giving you their opinion on what you're doing?
02:45You know, maybe Angelina went to someone and you're like, how does this sound?
02:48My children.
02:49Are they brutally honest?
02:50Yeah.
02:51Oh, yeah.
02:52Yeah.
02:53Mine too.
02:54Yeah.
02:55I mean, because they're in my corner, but they're very honest and so they understand
03:00that the truth is the most important.
03:02And so they, yeah, they're not blindly supportive.
03:06They are.
03:07Oh, that's great.
03:08They're honest.
03:09And your kids are the same.
03:10My kids have not said it, but also in, you know, besides people that we really love and
03:16trust, I think it's the opera world.
03:18I think that's the benchmark.
03:20For this film, yeah.
03:22For this film, it's important because we care a lot about what they say.
03:28And so far, so good.
03:30We'll see if we stay in the track.
03:32But we really care about what they say because that is the ultimate.
03:36Absolutely.
03:37I think they're going to be very impressed.
03:39I hope they are.
03:40I was very impressed.
03:41Congratulations, both.
03:42Lovely to meet you.
03:44Thank you so much.
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