Angelina Jolie's late mother used to keep her movies on the television all the time

During an interview, Angelina Jolie shared that her late mother Marcheline Bertrand used to keep her movies on the television all the time just to hear her voice in the house.

Then she said, "Isn’t that sweet? Only the nice ones, though – 'Maria' would have made her too sad. I don’t think she’d like to see me die." 

As for Jolie, she never thought she could be anyone's mom. She wrote on Time's Parents newsletter in 2020, "I was not a very stable youth. In fact, I never thought I could be anyone’s mom".

"I remember the decision to become a parent. It wasn’t hard to love. It wasn’t hard to dedicate myself to someone and something greater than my life."

"What was hard was knowing that from now on I needed to be the one to make sure everything was okay. To manage it and make it work. From food to school to medical. Whatever would come. And to be patient. I realized I stopped my constant daydreaming, instead staying always ready for any break into what I was doing or thinking to answer a need. It was a new skill to acquire."

Angelina Jolie didn't know how much she lost her voice after the death of her mother

Angelina Jolie didn't know how much she lost her voice after the death of her mother. 

Jolie's mother Marcheline Bertrand died oin 2007, at the age of 56. She had ovarian cancer and breast cancer. 

She shared, "People keep quoting me because I made, not the mistake— I admitted it was like a therapy. But it really is".

"Because I didn’t realize the practice of it and the learning of it is one thing, but it was finding my voice and letting my voice out that was really hard for me. And I was really emotional about it."

"I didn’t know how much I had lost my voice. Maybe when I lost my mother, maybe when someone hurt me, whatever it was, the different things that had made it smaller and locked it away".

"So finding it and letting it come out was very emotional, and such a feeling that I wish for everybody to have."

Referring women on the big screen, "They’re a good woman if they’re apologizing. Or if they’re breaking".

"Maria didn’t have a mother that loved her and told her that she was enough as she was, so both of our characters come from this being alone since they were little and feeling a little different for very different reasons."

Angelina Jolie apologized to audience (extras) in case she sang wrong notes loudly

Angelina Jolie apologized to audience (extras) in case she sang wrong notes loudly.

During an interview with Netflix's Queue, Jolie shared, "The funny thing is, for it to be convincing, you have to be very loud when you sing opera, as loud as you can be. Whether you feel confident or not, you still have to be very loud".

Director Pablo Larraín did a wonderful thing in that he cast a group [of extras] that stayed in the audience [throughout filming]."

"They were with me through a few performances, and these wonderful people would become so essential to the piece. I think the first day I met them I said, 'I apologize for what’s about to happen in case I hit the wrong notes loudly.' "

"It helped me [that] I was performing to a real audience. They were really kind people who knew that I was trying my best, and I wasn’t an opera singer but I was learning. We were connected in the attempt and in the storytelling. Their understanding and support were everything."

Angelina Jolie's vocal coach tells why she was suitable to act in Maria

Angelina Jolie's vocal coach Eric Vetro tells why she was suitable to act in Maria. 

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He explained to PEOPLE, "She started from ground zero. She had never sung before. I don't think I've ever seen someone make such a huge difference from the first day to the last day."

"Her desire to do a great job overrode anything that might stop her."

Eric explained that training someone to sing opera is a unique experience, as there's rarely a steady beat to follow. He tells, "It ebbs and it flows. It goes a little faster here, a little slower there. So to do that, I mean, you have to really be musical."

"It was the most thrilling day of all of our time spent together. I was like, 'This is it. She can do it. She's the perfect person to play this role.' And I'm someone who loved Maria Callas — I really did. She was one of my favorite opera singers, and so it really touched me that she was able to do it like this."

"I feel like anything she decided to do, she probably could do. She's a remarkable human being. She really inspired me to always give 150% every minute of the day, because she does."

Angelina Jolie is nominated for Golden Globe for Best Performance By A Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama

Angelina Jolie is nominated for Golden Globe for Best Performance By A Female Actor in a Motion Picture Drama for her role as Maria Callas in the movie "Maria".

Other nominees are Pamela Anderson for "The Last Showgirl", Nicole Kidman for "Babygirl", Tilda Swinton for "The Room Next Door", Fernanda Torres for "I'm Still Here" and Kate Winslet for "Lee".

Nikki Glaser will be hosting the event.

You can watch the 82nd GoldenGlobes, Live on Sunday, Jan. 5 at 5 PT | 8 ET on CBSTV and Paramountplus.

Brad Pitt wants two of his kids to celebrate his 61st birthday

Brad Pitt wants two of his kids to celebrate his 61st birthday, which falls on December 18. 

Maddox and Pax remained distance from him while twins Knox and Vivienne still keep in touch with him.

In July, a source told People that Pitt had “virtually no contact” with his adult kids. The insider continues, “[Angelina] has the kids most of the time, but per their agreement, he has visitation with the younger kids.”

A source told PageSix, "Brad is missing his kids and wishes he had a closer relationship with them, particularly with celebrating the holidays and his birthday this month".

Angelina Jolie tells how her late mother influence her

During Angelina Jolie's acceptance for Performer Tribute Award for playing opera singer Maria Callas, she tells how her late mother Marcheline Bertrand influence her in the past. 

She shared, "[My mom] took me to the theater. She told me about meeting Tennessee Williams, and she introduced me to the Lee Strasberg Institute, where I would later study. And I now experience the joy of seeing my own daughter love theater and get involved."

Then she tells that her childhood house was filled with many books, saying, "I grew up with a mother who kept books inside the oven because there were more books in our house than shelves in the apartment we had".

"And it was how she solved the problem, while still making sure we were fed. But it was her priority."