Angelina Jolie wowed a New York City audience with her emotional new performance.
The Oscar winner attended the New York Film Festival premiere of Maria on Sunday, Sept. 29, at Alice Tully Hall in Manhattan. Jolie, 49, stars as famed opera singer Maria Callas in the film directed by Pablo Larraín, who previously made Jackie and Spencer.
Speaking onstage prior to the screening, Jolie said, “I’m so happy to be here tonight. And I’m so happy to share this stage with these extremely talented, wonderful people and my dear friends. I hope you see in this film how much we really care for the people whose lives we’re sharing with you and how much they also loved art.”
The actress said Callas, who died in her Paris apartment in 1977 at age 53, “loved New York” and “I know she loved to perform here, teach here. I know she would have loved to be here tonight, to feel this…
