‘Maria’: How Angelina Jolie’s Makeup and Hair Team Brought Opera Legend Maria Callas to Life

Angelina Jolie completely transforms into opera superstar Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria” through the hands of the Oscar winner’s personal makeup and hair team, Adruitha Lee and Pamela Goldammer.

While subtlety was key to the transformation, Lee and Goldammer worked to establish what that specific look needed to be. “You do have to look at the whole of [Callas] to understand her, or how she was adapting,” Jolie explains of the team’s process.

Callas was never without makeup, and her hair perfectly groomed. With a large scope of resources available, one photo in particular struck Jolie in which Callas is hunched over. “You can see her hair,

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