Angelina Jolie has been away from Hollywood since her last release of “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and “Eternals,” which were in 2021. She takes frequent breaks to spend time with family as per her statement.
The screening of her upcoming movie at the Venice Film Festival received about 8 minutes of standing ovation by the audience. This amazing response has sparked rumors about her getting an Oscar nomination as the best actress for the second time after her 2008 film “Changeling.”
The great response made Angelina emotional, the director and her co-star Pierfrancesco Favino made her comfortable and appreciated the audience positive feedback.
About Angelina Jolie Upcoming “Maria”
Pablo Larraín has directed this upcoming movie, just like his previous releases Jackie and Spencer, this too is a story of iconic women. The film is a biography of opera singer Maria Callas.
The main casts are Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Stephen Ashfield, Valeria Golino.
This film will probably be released on Netflix in the last quarter of the year. Jolie has received great praise from critics but the film has not equally received great praise.
The film is about opera singer Callas’s last days in Paris during the 1970s when she was in a bad phase of her singing career. In her life’s last phase she had lost all her fame because of her lost voice, she tries to regain her voice and sing for herself.
Maria Screening at Venice Film Festival
Angelina Jolie appeared in a custom-made beige gown styled with a luxurious fur stole for the screening. After the world premiere at the Sala Grande of the Venice Film Festival, the audience loved the acting of Angelina Jolie, and 8 minutes of standing ovation was given to her with continuous applause.
To this amazing response, Jolie became happy and emotional at the same time, she was seen alongside Pablo- the director of the film, and her co-actor Pierfrancesco Favino.
Angelina Jolie’s Previous Movies & Career
She made her career debut very early in the year 1982 as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin’ to Get Out (1982).
Later, she got her first leading role in Hackers (1995). In 1999, Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Girl, Interrupted.
Then she acted in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010).
Changeling in 2008 was an American mystery crime drama film directed, produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by J. Michael Straczynski. For this, Angelina was called for a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress.
She also gave her voice to the famous animated film series Kung Fu Panda.
In addition to acting, she produced the musical The Outsiders (2024), which won the Tony Award for Best Musical.
Personal Life
Meet Angelina Jolie’s rumored new boyfriend is Justin Levine. Justin Levine is a Tony Award winner and is a music maker according to his Instagram Bio.
Angelina met Justin while working together on The Outsiders.
Earlier Angelina Jolie dated many men, first, she married Jonny Lee Miller in 1996 for three years, later dated Jenny Shimizu, and then married Billy Bob Thorton in 2000.
Later she married with Brad Pitt, with whom she is also going to be separated according to sources.