Angelina Jolie has learned to speak French fluently for her film Stitches after taking up opera for Maria
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Angelina Jolie has learned to speak French fluently. The 49-year-old actress picked up the romance language for her role as Maxine in the new movie Stitches about Fashion Week. The star is filming the movie now in Paris in both English and French. That means with each scene, she has to speak her lines in two languages.
![[The star is filming the movie now in Paris in both English and French. That means with each scene, she has to speak her lines in two languages. Seen with son Knox in November]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/18/19/93288901-14206867-image-a-22_1734551145273.jpg)
Angelina has already spoken French before in the 2004 movie Taking Lives, but it was a brief scene. Jolie's mother Marcheline Bertrand was of French Canadian descent and may have taught her daughter conversational French, though it is not clear how well she spoke it.
![[Angelina has already spoken French before in the 2004 movie Taking Lives, but it was a brief scene]](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/12/19/14/93288045-14206867-image-a-2_1734618083344.jpg)
The movie is scheduled to come out in 2025. This comes after the mother of six learned to sing opera to play Maria Callas in the bio film Maria. Angelina Jolie has learned to speak French fluently. The 49-year-old actress picked up the romance language for her role as Maxine in the new movie Stitches about Fashion Week; seen in August.
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The star is filming the movie now in Paris in both English and French. That means with each scene, she has to speak her lines in two languages. Seen with son Knox in November. Stitches costars Louis Garrel and is from director Alice Winocour. It is 'set in the world of high fashion and unfolds in Paris,' according to Variety.
This ties in nicely with the fashion design businesses the actress is supporting under her banner Atelier Jolie. Angelina has been seen on set with her son Maddox who is working on the movie too. Her 23-year-old son has been hired as the third assistant director on the film set in the world of high fashion, DailyMail.com has learned.
