It looks like Angelina Jolie wants to get serious about her acting career again by signing on to play Maria Callas, the famously tragic opera star who was known for her great talent, temperamental behavior and doomed love affair with Greek shipping tycoon Aristotle Onassis, who left her when he married Jacqueline Kennedy.
Jolie, who was last nominated for a best actress Oscar in 2009, will star in the film, “Maria.” The director of “Maria” is Pablo Larrain, who has an affinity for making films about famous, suffering women that lead to Academy Award nominations for the women who play them.
Larrain directed Natalie Portman to a nomination for playing the aforementioned Jacqueline Kennedy, in the aftermath of her husband’s assassination, in the 2016 film, “Jackie.” Last year, Kristen Stewart was a frontrunner for an Oscar for playing Princess Diana in “Spencer,” which depicted the late global icon suffering under the oppression of royal life and from her husband’s infidelity.
