Angelina Jolie Stopped Singing After an Ex Was ‘Not Kind’ About Her Voice: I’d ‘Adapted to…
Angelina Jolie Stopped Singing After an Ex Was ‘Not Kind’ About Her Voice: I’d ‘Adapted to This Person’s Opinion’
God knows how many lozenges I had, and I was rehearsing all night, all morning,” the Oscar winner added. “I was very nervous to begin. I didn’t want to disappoint the crew.”
They slowly built up to Jolie being able to perform at the La Scala opera house in Milan, which “was the one everything was building toward.”
“It was so beyond my comfort zone that I was giddy,” she said. “There was nothing else to do except to jump, to just fully jump. The final layer on that particular performance was what I am comfortable with, the emotional performance of [Callas’] pain and her madness.
And so I just assumed I couldn’t really sing,” Jolie explained. “I’d been to theater school, so it was weird that it even had an effect on me. I just kind of adapted to this person’s opinion.”
She went on to reveal that “it took me getting past a lot of things to start singing” — a journey that included, to her surprise, “discovering also that I was a soprano.”
“I thought I had a low voice my whole life. I was explaining [to the singing instructor] that my voice is deeper, and he said, ‘No, you’re actually a soprano,’ ” Jolie told THR. “And probably something happened. Your voice changes when you go through different things in your life. So that was a shock. That was very strange.”
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