Angelina Jolie's Maria performance compared to Denzel Washington as Malcolm X by acclaimed director Have YOU got a story? Email [email protected] By Sameer Suri and Deirdre Durkan-simonds For Dailymail.com Published: 01:12, 7 November 2024 | Updated: 01:14, 7 November 2024 e-mail View comments An acclaimed director has compared Angelina Jolie 's performance in Maria to Denzel Washington 's turn as Malcolm X.
Angelina, 49, has been at the center of a hum of Oscar buzz ever since a trailer dropped last month for her upcoming Netflix movie . Maria stars Angelina as the legendary opera singer Maria Callas during her final decline in Paris amid her failed comeback in the 1970s. Now Barry Jenkins, the director of the Oscar-winning drama Moonlight about a black gay man's coming of age, has added his voice to the choir of praise.
'The performance is so striking,' he told Angelina, in footage obtained by Indiewire . 'It’s almost like, to me, Jesse Eisenberg is Mark Zuckerberg . Denzel Washington is Malcolm X, in a certain way.
And I think you are Maria Callas in the same way. In this movie, in so many moments, you are performing with your whole body.' An acclaimed director has compared Angelina Jolie 's performance as Maria Callas in Maria to Denzel Washington's turn as Malcolm X Spike Lee directed the 1992 biopic Malcolm X starring Denzel as the iconic black activist, with Angela Bassett as his wife Betty Shabazz Read More He got game: How Denzel Washington saved the Oscars for Mo.
