I didn’t know she could sing.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 21, 2022 6:06 PM |
She will find a way to script having Callas trash Brad Pitt in the movie.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 21, 2022 6:10 PM |
Im sure the 12 people who still know who Maria Callas is will love it
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 21, 2022 6:11 PM |
Sorry, I typed choked and was spell corrected.
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 21, 2022 6:12 PM |
This could be one of the biggest biopics in a while. Callas is not exactly relevant but people eat up opera legend. Jolie will certainly win for it.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 21, 2022 6:15 PM |
Maria Callas was overrated as fuck. Her voice was ugly. Montserrat Caballé's vissi d'arti is superior to Callas' rendition. Though I'll give Callas her due for her E flat in Aida.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 21, 2022 6:15 PM |
Angelina’s first lead actress Oscar?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 21, 2022 6:33 PM |
Perfect casting. All they'll have to do is give her a fake nose, pad her clothes, give her a wig and some winged eyeliner, teach her to speak Italian, and have someone else sing for her. Minor details!
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 21, 2022 6:40 PM |
Wait the plot is about her last days? Hope it's a lot of flashbacks, but I hate movies setup like that. Thought it would be more career-spanning. Nothing interesting happened to Callas in her final years. She was basically a recluse. Guessing this will be the "Iron Lady." Who will play Onassis and will Jackie be in this?
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 21, 2022 6:48 PM |
This role was made for Celine. She has wanted it for two decades. It's true. She looks like Callas and understands vocal training and DIVAdom. Sadness too. Deprivation and starvation.
The Callas documentary is a gorgeous piece of storytelling in itself. Who ever plays this role - will get a lot of attention. Callas's life had every kind of human heartbreak, temperament, tragedy and triumph.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 21, 2022 6:48 PM |
This is going to suck balls!!
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | October 21, 2022 6:51 PM |
Angelina Jolie IS *callous*!
| by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 21, 2022 6:55 PM |
She’s a very bad actress.
In fact, she’s no good a ‘tall.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 21, 2022 6:56 PM |
Celine looks nothing like Callas r11. She has the face of a violin being vacuum sealed
| by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 21, 2022 6:56 PM |
Surprised all the hate this is getting here. I bel canto with you people.
| by Anonymous | reply 17 | October 21, 2022 6:57 PM |
Sofia Coppola looks a lot like Callas and would be better than Jolie in this.
| by Anonymous | reply 18 | October 21, 2022 7:06 PM |
Patti is available for non-Equity roles.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 19 | October 21, 2022 7:14 PM |
This has to be a joke, right? Does this guy like ruining historical figures by having godawful actresses portray them in pseudo artistic Oscar bait?
| by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 21, 2022 7:17 PM |
She should play her when she was a tubbo.
| by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 21, 2022 7:18 PM |
r18, are you sure about that?
| by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 21, 2022 7:21 PM |
Celine doesn't sound very good to me at R11. Just me?
| by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 21, 2022 7:25 PM |
Who is going to play these two?
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 21, 2022 7:31 PM |
^ These two would be perfect 😂
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 21, 2022 7:34 PM |
It's about her final days??? I thought from everything I've read that she spent most of her final days on the toilet.
| by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 21, 2022 7:41 PM |
R18 I think she would be fantastic.
| by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 21, 2022 7:42 PM |
I would be surprised if Jackie makes much of an appearance in it, since she actually did not seem to meet Callas very often--Onassis shuttled between them.
However, if she is a character in the movie, I can think of no one more qualified to play her than Billy Porter.
| by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 21, 2022 7:43 PM |
This thread is making me really want a hot dog.
Why is that?
| by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 21, 2022 7:45 PM |
^ Funny, makes me want to suck off rich, ugly old men 🙄
| by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 21, 2022 7:51 PM |
R16 funniest post of the day
| by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 21, 2022 7:52 PM |
Celine isn’t an actress and they’re not using her voice for the soundtrack
| by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 21, 2022 7:52 PM |
^And it makes ME want to marry them so I can then be given an entire Greek island for a wedding gift, and then divorce them to win a $27 million settlement!
| by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 21, 2022 7:52 PM |
^ That all begins with a decent BJ
| by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 21, 2022 7:55 PM |
R35 the BJ needs to be outstanding and "rock your world" quality for R36 to achieve his dream
| by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 21, 2022 8:09 PM |
Wouldn’t Gaga have been better?
| by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 21, 2022 8:12 PM |
That's actually a very good idea, R37!
| by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 21, 2022 9:58 PM |
I agree with r37, don't know why it wasn't offered to Gaga, unless she's just came off one period Italian bio, maybe she didn't want another so soon
| by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 21, 2022 10:05 PM |
Gaga would've been a camp nightmare. I agree she could play it, but she's not taken very seriously still and the film would flop. Jolie is a mysterious legend and this is a role people will want to see her rise to occasion in. I thought gays had taste?
| by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 21, 2022 10:14 PM |
Oooh! She can use her Transylvanian accent!
| by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 21, 2022 10:18 PM |
@r40, "I thought gays had taste? "
Whatever gave you that idea? 😉
What we have is good PR (He's Gay so it must be in style)
| by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 21, 2022 10:25 PM |
Wasn't Cate Blanchett tied to this at one point ?
Poor Faye - all that work and money 20 years ago, and nothing!
| by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 21, 2022 10:25 PM |
Viola Davis deserves it. Audiences would love it.
| by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 21, 2022 10:37 PM |
Thank goodness there are no more video stores left in WeHo because tonight would be a nightmare for their staffs. Horns honking and VHS boxes all over the parking lot!
| by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 21, 2022 10:38 PM |
Meryl was supposed to play Callas in Master Class for HBO but it was abruptly cancelled after Mike Nichols croaked. Meryl would only do it with Nichols.
| by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 21, 2022 10:41 PM |
On no Meryl. Please don't try to sing no more. Please. The world begs.
| by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 21, 2022 10:43 PM |
So Skeletor is going to play la Callas...best way to ruin what was already a limited-interest movie. Angelica Houston would be a great latter-year Callas
| by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 21, 2022 10:47 PM |
Maria Callas was 53 years old when she died. Nobody mentioned on this thread but Jolie or Gaga could play her at this point. Anjelica Huston and Streep are decades too old. Watch this instead. It's fantastic. You don't have to love Callas to enjoy the full documentary.
Tony Palmer's film on Margot Fonteyn is the REAL thrilling life story.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 21, 2022 10:52 PM |
What a woooman, what a paaaart
| by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 21, 2022 11:27 PM |
Maria Callas was a passionate artist--not an anorexic freak. I mean.....NO.
But now we'll be dragging this thing around for the next two years.
The thought makes me weary.
| by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 22, 2022 12:17 AM |
Will Lens Dunham play Elsa Maxwell in this biopic?
| by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 22, 2022 3:19 AM |
If Lens spends a few months at a spa, she can play Ari Onassis.
| by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 22, 2022 3:24 AM |
Lady Gaga would be excellent.
| by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 22, 2022 3:30 AM |
Why can’t you be obsessed about positive things? About Marlon Brando? About the Kustarica movie that was the hit of all of Europe and Cannes?
| by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 22, 2022 3:37 AM |
I don’t think I’ve ever seen one Angelina Jolie movie ever. I can’t think of one film I’ve seen with her.
| by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 22, 2022 3:39 AM |
Is Angelina even a box office star? Her only hit movies were Mr. and Mrs. Smith and Maleficent. The former was a hit because of her scandal with Brad Pitt and the latter because of the Disney promotion.
Should have given this to Lady Gaga. Gaga was supposed to do Cleopatra as well, which was Angelina Jolie's pet project.
| by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 22, 2022 3:46 AM |
Gaga is *no* Claudette Cobert...
| by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 22, 2022 3:48 AM |
How will AJ fit in time for pap strolls with her kids to the art store, pet shop or for groceries?
| by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 22, 2022 3:49 AM |
I cannot imagine anyone less suited for this role than Angelina Jolie, who is a beautiful face devoid of talent that has been elevated to stardom through nepotism. She is an inexpressive actress at best, mostly plays herself and her main concern always is to look sexy and convey her self-importance as a public figure.
Maria Callas was a complex woman whose personality and voice were polarizing. She was deliriously pretentious, arrogant, far less educated than one would have expected, intelligent, elegant in spite of her weight, mysterious, an unreasonable, calculating diva who had fucked every old, powerful man who could help her career and a very vulnerable, insecure person who was relentlessly mistreated during her childhood and adolescence and, probably because of this, fell in love with the boorish, rudely petulant, abusive and greedy Aristoteles Onassis. On top of that, she had an ugly, powerful voice that was incredibly agile, elastic and expressive, not to mention that her range was rather spectacular - she was an assoluta who could sing it all and make it sound believable, not to mention that she rescued bel canto from oblivion and brought opera to the masses, in spite of her hideous tone.
A great actress is needed to play someone so unique and complex. Miss Jolie and her deformed lips, dead eyes, skeleton-like figure, plastic boobs and Bono-styled hypocrisy, won't be up to scratch and will try to make everything about herself, as per usual.
personally, I think that either Glenn Close or Meryl Streep would be better suited for the role. Gaga is a very limited actress and her acting can only be described as a series of stilted affectations. Her House of Gucci performance was awful and clichéd, but she'd still do a better job with Maria Callas than Angelina Jolie and her I Know You Wanna Fuck Me style of acting.
| by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 22, 2022 3:55 AM |
Angelina Jolie has the face of a classic Hollywood star and you people know it. She can act perfectly well.
| by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 22, 2022 3:55 AM |
[quote]Angelina Jolie has the face of a classic Hollywood star
That's part of the problem with her, r65.
| by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 22, 2022 4:00 AM |
I have never understood why people say Angelina Jolie looks like an Old Hollywood starlet. That might apply to Nicole Kidman, Cate Blanchett, Naomi Watts, or Julianne Moore but not Jolie.
As R64 said, Jolie thrives in roles where she can push her sexuality as aggressively as possible, which is 90% of her early filmography. The problem is she hasn't been able to do that the last couple of years because she's outgrown that phase, which is why she's been so desperate to prove herself as a director and she failed in that as well. She has very little talent and has coasted by on her looks, nepotism, and a failed marriage.
| by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 22, 2022 4:00 AM |
The guy who wrote "Spencer"? Oh no....
| by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 22, 2022 4:00 AM |
Jolie has no friends in Hollywood anymore so she isn't going to be able to snag herself a Lead Actress nomination with this at the Oscars.
| by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 22, 2022 4:01 AM |
Streep is a hideous performer and quite ridiculous actress at this stage of her career. Glenn Close is 75 fucking years old. Maybe Liza could do it?
The rest of your post is most enjoyable and insightful, R64.
The movie will not be as deep or long or anything close to your synopsis.
Angelina will do fine. Blanchett would have been perfect.
| by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 22, 2022 4:02 AM |
I just can't watch anything with AJ in it. She is such a boring actor.
| by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 22, 2022 4:07 AM |
Too bad Angela Lansbury isn't still around to do it.
| by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 22, 2022 4:15 AM |
We could have a small photograph in a frame in a scene, and Miss Dunaway could be in it as my grandmother.
| by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 22, 2022 4:21 AM |
Callas? Isn't he the fella who said Jesus should be crucified?
| by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 22, 2022 5:33 AM |
Angelina is mesmerizing. I didn't see Changling but she looked good in that
| by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 22, 2022 7:10 AM |
Angelina Jolie was great in that film she did with Whoopi Goldberg & Brittany Murphy, I think its called girl interrupted? She had a dramatic meaty role in that film, I loved it.
| by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 22, 2022 9:42 AM |
She looks NOTHING like Charlie Callas!
| by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 22, 2022 9:44 AM |
R34 Jackie's settlement was actually $20.500.000 according to the dailymail in documents they found a few years ago. And not the $26 million that's been floating around for decades.
She still made out like a bandit. That was a lot if money in the 70s.
| by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 22, 2022 9:45 AM |
^ I thought it was $20 million from Christina above the $7 million in the pre-nup
| by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 22, 2022 1:26 PM |
Larrain is exactly the wrong person to tell this story (he’s a ridiculous fantasist), but a biopic of Callas has been a long time coming. Any major actress would want to do it. I hope that Jolie doesn’t think she’s going to be taking a couple of lessons and singing on film. Jolie couldn’t even come close to Callas at her very worst touring with Del Monaco.
| by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 22, 2022 1:57 PM |
[quote] Oooh! She can use her Transylvanian accent!
To be fair, Callas’ accent was completely made up. A weird amalgamation of Midlantic and pseudo European. She was a kid from Washington Heights.
| by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 22, 2022 1:59 PM |
[quote] …Jolie is a mysterious legend…
Now that’s funny!
| by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 22, 2022 1:59 PM |
Both Glenn and Meryl are practically 80 R64. Callas died when she was 53, dear.
| by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 22, 2022 2:02 PM |
I doubt this one will have flashbacks to the times when Callas was fat. Who's playing Ari Onassis? Also she was Greek, not Italian, R9.
Very difficult, almost impossible to mimic how an opera singer sings.
| by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 22, 2022 2:14 PM |
Can’t they just dub the voice when the character “sings”?
| by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 22, 2022 2:36 PM |
There is a lot of physicality involved when an opera singer sings. You just can't act it, esp not someone who isn't a singer. At least Gaga understands the physical aspects of singing.
| by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 22, 2022 2:45 PM |
I was thinking of her singing r84, but you're right. Add "learn Greek" to the list!
| by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 22, 2022 2:52 PM |
Well Angelina isn't going to sing.
| by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 22, 2022 3:05 PM |
Eldergays see Jolie has a bimbo I'm realizing. Us youngins didn't see her that way
| by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 22, 2022 4:38 PM |
[quote]Maria Callas was overrated as fuck.
Agreed- trilling excessively does not actually sustain a note.
| by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 22, 2022 5:43 PM |
Maybe this movie will be more about Callas's life and less about her career. That way Angie might just have to hum a few bars as segue between events
| by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 22, 2022 5:44 PM |
R90 trills are some of the most popular, in-fashion, highly regarded vocal embellishments in opera, and more often than not, written in the fucking composition going back all the way to the baroque period. So stfu dumbfuck!
| by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 22, 2022 5:50 PM |
R89 I was born in 1987. I see her as a total poser and shitty actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 22, 2022 6:18 PM |
Eldergays are apparently born in 1987.
| by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 22, 2022 6:20 PM |
someone upthread really said, "everyone wants to hear about opera legends!"???
lolz
| by Anonymous | reply 95 | October 22, 2022 6:26 PM |
If it wasn't for the Jackie/Ari connection no one would be interested in this... Even that's a stretch to a far gone era
| by Anonymous | reply 96 | October 22, 2022 7:11 PM |
Anyone not interested in this is a crusty GenX-er
| by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 22, 2022 7:19 PM |
Whoever have been giving Pablo Larraín the money to make all these insufferable pseudo-intellectual exploitation porn about spoiled rich white women need to be fucking stopped.
| by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 22, 2022 7:20 PM |
[quote]OP: Angelina Jolie IS Callous!
| by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 22, 2022 7:21 PM |
A movie about Miss Dunaway going insane as she directs and stars in a movie about Callas that is never finished or released could be entertaining. In the climatic scene she throws a large Greek salad at herself.
| by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 22, 2022 7:22 PM |
[R44} The post that said she's "too skinny, too old" .... If you read the article the movie's about Maria Callas' last days in Paris. At that time she had lost a tremendous amount of weight and some say lost vocal power because of it. So Angelina is actually just about perfect for the role. She older now and she's skinny. I am looking forward to this one. I love opera and I stan Angie.
| by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 22, 2022 8:57 PM |
^ So, what does she do, lie on death's bed coughing and wheezing while reminiscing about the good old days?
Angie's perfect 😉
| by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 22, 2022 9:06 PM |
[R103]
^ So, what does she do, lie on death's bed coughing and wheezing while reminiscing about the good old days?
Yep that will be her Oscar Best Actress winning scene.
| by Anonymous | reply 104 | October 22, 2022 9:16 PM |
What about Idina Menzel? Yes, I'm being serious.
| by Anonymous | reply 105 | October 22, 2022 11:23 PM |
R105 Terrible singer and even worse actress.
| by Anonymous | reply 106 | October 22, 2022 11:42 PM |
Gaga is almost perfect for this facially. Too bad she's a midget.
| by Anonymous | reply 107 | October 23, 2022 12:22 AM |
R40 Has Larrain ever made a film that didn't "flop"? You think Gaga would somehow make it worse for him?
[quote] Jolie is a mysterious legend
Huh?
| by Anonymous | reply 108 | October 23, 2022 12:26 AM |
[quote]Also she was Greek
But born in Manhattan
| by Anonymous | reply 109 | October 23, 2022 12:35 AM |
To whomever it was upthread who never saw "The Changeling" but thought Jolie looked good in it - she wasn't. She was awful. She sucked the life out of what was an interesting story with a competent director (Eastwood) and a very strong supporting cast. She ruined the entire movie and I wanted to punch her in the face.
Callas is an interesting figure. It could be a winner but not with Jolie in it. Her fuckability is fading and she doesn't have talent to fall back on. Blanchett would be fine, otherwise go to the Europeans, Cotilliard or even Penelope Cruz. Maybe Catherine Keener or Famke Jansen could do it?
Basically anyone but Jolie - she's a horrible actress and I don't want to see her ruin what would otherwise be a film I'd like to see.
| by Anonymous | reply 110 | October 23, 2022 1:32 AM |
Yeah, R101. Margot Fonteyn. An astounding life full of adventure and accomplishments. It's not just about her May September romance with Rudolph and her age defying rule as THE prima ballerina. She ran guns, she overthrew governments, she was delicate and perfect and ladylike and radical and possibly insane. She was weak somewhere underneath all that discipline. And it wasn't for romance.
She WAS also the greatest ballerina of all time until that kind of proclamation went out of fashion.
I am 39 years old so I know about Callas and Fonteyn mostly from the Palmer documentaries. Back when documentaries were real things that took years to make and much travel and courtship to accomplish. The Fonteyn one is freaking astounding in its surprises and everyday truths. And she was the most gorgeous dancer. A bit pristine.....but nothing like a diva in real life. More of a gangster.
Margot suffered through terrible cancer to attend one last gala, Princess Diana was there. Fonteyn spent her last years almost penniless to buy her paralyzed despot husband more cattle or to finance his failed revolutions. They didn't even have a phone. She absolutely subsidized a few murders. HIS family accompanied her to her death bed back in the US, to make sure she signed her life away on the line. One of the most famous women in the world for 35 years. She was such vulnerable prey. Why?
Tony Palmer made a very good film about Fonteyn. And then a great one with all the unedited footage, after she died.
There is such beauty in this documentary - gorgeous dancing and performances.
But it's heartbreaking.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 111 | October 23, 2022 5:45 AM |
There seems to be a generational gap between those who dislike Angelina and remembered her for the attention whore antics and those who weren’t born during those times and worship her for being a saint. Same with Brad the dinosaurs love him while the gen z hate him and believe he is a wife beater and child abuser.
| by Anonymous | reply 112 | October 23, 2022 7:22 AM |
I don't think anyone hates Jolie. She just hasn't done anything noteworthy since Girl, Interrupted, which makes her status as a global megastar quite baffling to most.
| by Anonymous | reply 113 | October 23, 2022 8:34 AM |
R92, I said "excessively." Go change your tampon.
| by Anonymous | reply 114 | October 23, 2022 8:37 AM |
I'm far from an Angie hater but I haven't been a fan in decades.
I thought she was very exotic and cool when she rose to prominence in the late 90s. Her performance in Gia was electrifying. I liked some other things she did around that time too.
Then she became a weirdo when the brother kissing; locket of blood wearing; spouse stealing; making out with Billy Bob Thorton at inappropriate times and places shenanigans started.
She's calmed down over the years but it's become apparent that she doesn't really have a lot of range in her acting. And as for the edginess and uniqueness that defined her earlier career, the novelty has worn off.
| by Anonymous | reply 115 | October 23, 2022 9:55 AM |
Nobody thinks Brad Pitt is a wife or child beater . . . except Jolie's mentally deranged fans.
| by Anonymous | reply 116 | October 23, 2022 11:33 AM |
Callas looks exactly like Gloria Estefan in the OP. Too bad she's too old to play the part now.
Offsite Link| by Anonymous | reply 117 | October 23, 2022 11:57 AM |
Agree that Gaga would have been a good fit. She's the right age, has a similar potato face (and body) and can act. The singing would have to be dubbed anyway....not matter who is in the role.
| by Anonymous | reply 118 | October 23, 2022 12:00 PM |
R111, okay, but you linked to a movie about Maria Callas, the basis for my confusion.
| by Anonymous | reply 119 | October 24, 2022 1:15 AM |
Callas is white adjacent right? So why cast Jolie?
| by Anonymous | reply 120 | October 24, 2022 1:23 AM |
Angelina is hit or miss but I think she's got it in her to knock this out of the park. I agree with many others, this is just the kind of role Gaga needs and would have been perfect for. Also, not for nothing, Meryl may be 70+ but she looks great and think she could (more than convincably) play Callas in her 50s. It's not like the woman was the picture of health at that time.
| by Anonymous | reply 121 | October 24, 2022 4:03 PM |
She's gotten too lazy to knock anything out of the ballpark. Long ago she resorted to falling back on acting ticks and tricks and we should have believed her when she said she never wanted to be an actress (she felt pressured by her mother) and is not that interested in it.
| by Anonymous | reply 122 | October 24, 2022 6:24 PM |
