Angelina Jolie, star of the Oscar-bound Maria Callas biopic Maria, has mixed thoughts about biopics. "That gets the most insane question award," Jolie recently told The Times in response to a question about what a Pablo Larraín biopic of her own life would look like.

Eric Vetro tells PEOPLE about working with Jolie for around seven months in preparation for Pablo Larraín's new biopic about opera legend Maria Callas

Angelina Jolie has played many a real-life figure throughout her Oscar-winning career, from supermodel Gia Carangi (“Gia”) to journalist Mariane Pearl (“A Mighty Pearl”) and now opera singer Maria Callas (“Maria”).