Angelina Jolie admits she ‘lied’ to bag latest Oscar-tipped role-Alistair McGeorge-Entertainment – Metro

Angelina Jolie wasn’t totally honest with director Pablo Larrain (Picture: Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)

Angelina Jolie has admitted she ‘lied’ to land her role in Maria.

The Hollywood star was nominated for a Golden Globe for her performance as opera legend Maria Callas in the biopic and is tipped for an Oscar, and she was so determined to get the part that she told director Pablo Larrain what he wanted to hear.

She didn’t think twice when the filmmaker asked if she could hold a tune, despite ‘never’ singing.

‘I had never sung. I had somebody once tell me I couldn’t sing or be a little dismissive when I was singing once, and it really shut me down,’ she told Variety.

‘I never told anybody, but it was part of my life that I just blocked. And then when Pablo asked me to do this and asked me if I could sing, I lied.

‘”Can you ride a horse?” “Yes.” Obviously, nobody can sing like Maria. No one. But I’ll do my best.’

Angelina was nervous about her singing scenes (Picture: Pablo Larraín/Netflix via AP)

Angelina previously admitted she was convinced she could bluff her way through Maria’s singing scenes until she had her first lesson with a music teacher.

According to Best magazine, she said: ‘I made the mistake in the beginning of thinking, when he asked me to sing a little, “I like movie singing”.

She didn’t expect to be ‘asked to actually sing’ (Picture: Pablo Larraín/Netflix via AP)

‘I could sing a bit I guess. I very quickly realised that you can’t fake sing opera. Not that I wanted to fake sing anything, but I didn’t really think I was going to be asked to actually sing.

‘Somehow, it didn’t cross my mind. I don’t know why. I didn’t completely understand until I was standing in this room and Pablo had met so many different teachers and he found one to begin.’

Angelina went on to reveal she ‘started crying’ as soon as she had to sing during that first lesson, while she was ‘moved’ to be taken ‘seriously’ by the teacher.

Angelina’s children like Zahara, 19, have helped her noticed her own improvements (Picture: Vivien Killilea/Getty Images for Palm Springs International Film Society)

‘The first time, he [the teacher] said, “OK. Plant your feet,”‘ she recalled. ‘He said, “Take a deep breath and then start to make sounds” – I started crying. Because I think we all hold so much in that we don’t really let out. We don’t let our full voice out.’

The Maleficent star – who is mom to Maddox, 23, Pax, 21, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 16, with ex-husband Brad Pitt – knew she was making progress with her vocals based on how her kids reacted.

She noted how initially they were simply proud of her for ‘trying so hard’, but after time they started to tell her ‘you’re kind of doing it Mom’.

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