Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor How does a 17-year-old singer from Greece end up sharing the screen with one of the biggest Hollywood stars in the world?
For newcomer Aggelina Papadopoulou, who plays young Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” it all started with a mysterious request sent to her music school in Athens.
The request asked for female singers aged 17 to 22 with brown hair who could resemble legendary American-Greek soprano Maria Callas.
The hopefuls learned nothing else before sending in their tapes. “We had less than a day to prepare the two songs you hear me singing in the movie,” Papadopoulou tells Variety ahead of the Greek premiere of “Maria” as the opening film of the Thessaloniki Film Festival.
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