Angelina Jolie got emotional reminiscing about her life while singing in 'Maria': 'It helped me a lot'

Angelina Jolie is opening up about the emotional moments she faced while working on her latest movie 'Maria' directed by Pablo Larraín. The Hollywood star talked to Good Morning America and revealed that her first Opera lessons were therapeutic, admitting that she used singing to unlock some of the emotions that were "locked" inside of her. 

"We all don't realize that different things that happen to us in our life — I know you've been through many things — we hold them in our body," the actress began to explain. "Everything is just locked somewhere to help us keep going. And so to really sing, and sing very fully, you have to unlock all of that."

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"So my first lesson, I took a deep breath and just cried... and then left!" she revealed in a clip shared by People, admitting that it is the "best therapy" she has ever had. “Honestly, I think I would tell a lot of people before you try therapy and spend too much time there, go to singing class.”

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The star, who has received major praise for her performance, admitted that singing "helped" her a lot. "There’s something primal about finding your own voice within your own body. It brings up certain emotions that you may have not wanted to confront, and there’s no way to sing at your full voice and your full emotion without confronting your feelings and your limitations.”

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Angelina Jolie's ex discouraged her from singing:

Angelina found out she is a soprano, but previously revealed that she thought she would not be able to sing. “I don’t sing,” she said during her  interview with The Hollywood Reported. “I had somebody in my life who was not kind to me about singing. It was a relationship I was in. And so I just assumed I couldn’t really sing. I’d been to theatre school, so it was weird that it even had an effect on me."