ANGELINA JOLIE 'I'D NEVER SUNG IN PUBLIC BEFORE!'

After a three-year break from the big screen, the star is “grateful” to be back

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An extended holiday from Hollywood with her six kids was just what Angelina Jolie needed. But the 49-year-old actress says it “feels good” to be “an artist” again playing opera icon Maria Callas in Maria.

What was it like having to sing in those opera scenes?

I was terribly nervous. I spent almost seven months training because when you work with Pablo [director Pablo Larrain] you can’t do anything by half. He demands, in a most wonderful way, that you really do the work. My first time singing, I remember being so nervous. My sons were there and they helped to block the door so that nobody else was coming in. I was shaking. But Pablo, in his decency, started me in a small room and gave me time to grow. But I was frightened to live up to her because I had not sung in public before.