Valeria Golino and Angelina Jolie together in Pablo Larraín’s film “Maria Callas”

After appearing in the second season Morning showin the first of The lying life of adults and having filmed his first series – The Art of Joywhich we’ll soon see on Sky -, Valeria Golino ready for new international obligations: play Angelina Jolie’s sister in Pablo Larraín’s new biopic and dedicated to Maria Callas. Having told the story of interesting and controversial characters such as Pablo Neruda, Jackie Kennedy, Diana Spencer and, most recently, Augusto Pinochet, Larraín is now ready to tell the tragic story of one of the world’s greatest opera singers, played for the occasion Angelina Joliewho recently made a film based on the novel No blood Alessandro Baricco.

Valeria Golino, as she toldPen on the sidelines of an event dedicated to Skye’s twentieth anniversary, she will play his sister, Yaquinti Callas. “I’m returning to my main job – as an actress. I will be the sister of Angelina Jolie, the main character of the role of Maria Callas in the film. Mary, which reimagines her final days in 1970s Paris. Filming will begin on October 15, we will shoot in Budapest, Paris, Athens, maybe something in Italy.. The cast also includes Alba Rohrwacher and Pierfrancesco Favino. I said yes because I like Larren’s style, a director of high level and unprincipled. His Jackie I really liked it,” enthusiastically said Valeria Golino, perhaps the most international of our actresses, along with Monica Bellucci.

Thus, the film, which will feature two more Italian actors such as Pierfrancesco Favino and Alba Rohrwacher in the cast, it will be possible to shoot despite the ongoing strike. In fact, the production is being handled by an international team that includes Fabula Pictures, Juan de Dios Larraín, the director’s brother, Lorenzo Mieli of The Apartment Pictures and Jonas Dornbach of Komlizen, and the sets will be installed, as expected by Valeria Golino, in some European capitals. written by Stephen Knight – already behind Spencer -, currently involved in the remake The Woman Who Lived Twice with Robert Downey Jr.