Winter is coming.
With Labor Day just around the corner, white shoes everywhere are being tucked away to make room for fall accessories, but Angelina Jolie just skipped autumn altogether and jumped right to winter with her most recent red carpet look.
On Thursday, the actress attended a screening for her upcoming movie, Maria, at the 2024 Venice Film Festival in a dress that proved she is ready for cooler temperatures. Jolie traded in her quiet luxury linens for mob wife in a Champagne-colored Tamara Ralph gown with draped fabric all down the skirt and a Watteau train, complete with an off-the-shoulder tan faux-fur shrug.
Jolie accessorized with stud earrings, a chunky chain bracelet, and gold ring. Her blonde highlighted hair was worn straight and styled in a deep side part, and she finished off her glam with smudged liner and a vibrant red lip.
Jolie will portray the iconic opera singer Maria Callas in the Pablo Larraín-directed movie. Jolie opened up about playing the vocalist during her final days, saying that learning opera was “the therapy I didn’t realize I needed.”
“I had no idea how much I was holding in and not letting out,” Jolie said in a statement to the press, per The Hollywood Reporter. “I got very lucky, because the best way in was that I got to be taught by Maria. When she approached her work, she said the first thing you do—she called it straight jacketing —you don’t think about how you feel or what you want. You just try to understand the music and the intention of the composer. And you are disciplined, and you do the work exactly as intended, and you practice and practice. So, I did that. Then, she said, and the final thing is you let your personal and your emotions come in, only then and only when you’re ready. And then, I was so fortunate to be with Pablo, where he protected me. So, when I was able, I would let that emotion in, and I could try to do something I’d never done before.”
While there is no release date yet for the movie, Maria was picked up by streaming giant Netflix ahead of the festival.