Angelina Jolie will soon play Maria Callas

Vuitton, Hermès, Dior. In the golden triangle of the City of Lights, there is no shortage of brands selling dreams. Angelina Jolie last week chose to privatize a completely different business. The kind of ones that put a lot less glitter in our eyes.

On a Parisian vacation for the purposes of the film “Coutures”, by director Alice Winocour, it was the Darty on the Champs-Élysées that the American star reserved for two hours for her sole use, the time of Christmas shopping with his son Pax.

If history does not say whether the glamorous actress, producer and director left with a Nespresso coffee machine dear to George Clooney, the best friend of her ex Brad Pitt, it in any case demonstrates that a few days before the Christmas holidays, end of the year, the priority of the mother of Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne and Knox remains… her children!

While shopping in the appliance store or in a local bazaar to glean a few rolls of gift wrap, Angelina Jolie takes charge of the preparations for the Christmas holidays alone.

Discreet and committed

Separated since 2016 from her third husband, the actor Brad Pitt, and since then entangled in a divorce that is as bloody as it is publicized, the interpreter of Lara Croft, at 49 years old, no longer lets much about her private life filter through. And this, despite the omnipresent paparazzi who are on the lookout for a hypothetical new companion. And this, too, despite the headlines surrounding the legal battle between him and Brad Pitt over their French property in Miraval or the custody of their now teenage children.

Married for the first time to the English actor Jonny Lee Miller, met on the set of the film “Hackers” who revealed her in 1995, then a second time to the actor Billy Bob Thornton with whom she maintained a relationship as passionate as it was eventful , the daughter of Jon Voight, who won an Oscar in 1979 for his role in the film “Return”, has always been a shy person, a real shy person with a somewhat “punk” temperament.

A young woman with obvious photogenicity, who came to the cinema more out of necessity than out of desire, as she recently explained in an interview with the Quebec newspaper “The Duty”: “I became an artist very early to help my mother pay the bills, a decision which meant that I had moments where I felt very, very far from being comfortable in this environment.”

Not inclined to interviews and TV shows, it is for important causes that the woman who adopted her first three children in Cambodia, Vietnam and Ethiopia agrees to come out of her legendary reserve. Goodwill ambassador then special envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for twenty-one years, in 2013 she did better than any breast cancer screening campaign by revealing that she was a carrier of a gene which predisposed her to this insidious illness which claimed the lives of many women in her family, including her beloved mother, Marcheline. By speaking so simply about her recourse to a preventive double mastectomy, thus taking the risk of damaging her image as a sex symbol. Daring what no Hollywood icon had dared before her.

A tailor-made role

Single, she now walks the red carpets surrounded only by her children. Like those of the previews of “Maria”, by Chilean director Pablo Larraín, the biopic on Maria Callas in which she takes on the title role. Already broadcast on Netflix USA and scheduled for our big screens on February 5, the film focuses on the last days of the diva, ill and reclusive in her Parisian apartment until her death, at the age of 53, on September 16, 1977.

Applauded for almost ten minutes during the screening of the film at the last Venice Film Festival, the acting of the actress, winner of an Oscar in 2000 for the film “A Stolen Life”, was unanimously unanimous. Some critics even predict a trophy at the next Oscars or Golden Globes.

A sensitive interpretation that the one who shared many ailments with the most famous sopranos, weight problems, various addictions and toxic romantic relationships, admits to having drawn on very personal resources, as she recently explained to the “Sun”: “ I have children whom I love dearly, but as an adult I am often alone. I identify with the loneliness she experienced […]. I haven’t yet figured out how to live my life alone.”

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