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Angelina Jolie<\/strong><\/a> and Cynthia Erivo<\/strong><\/a> are discussing their remarkable careers.<\/p>\n The Maria<\/em> and Wicked<\/em> stars sat down for Variety<\/em><\/a>\u2018s Actors on Actors issue, out now.<\/p>\n During the discussion, the two talked about Angelina <\/strong>learning to find her voice and sing opera, taking her daughter to see Wicked<\/em>, Cynthia<\/strong>\u2018s live singing and \u201cDefying Gravity.\u201d<\/p>\n Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Angelina, on learning to sing opera, and how it helped her find her voice:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cI was terrified. But I think it\u2019s a gift as an artist\u2014and I know you felt this going into your film as well\u2014when you\u2019re just not sure you\u2019re able to do it. You\u2019re not sure you\u2019re good enough. The task, the challenge, is set, and you feel small. It\u2019s a gift for an artist\u2026People keep quoting me because I made, not the mistake\u2014I admitted it was like a therapy. But it really is. Because I didn\u2019t realize the practice of it and the learning of it is one thing, but it was finding my voice and letting my voice out that was really hard for me. And I was really emotional about it. I didn\u2019t know how much I had lost my voice. Maybe when I lost my mother, maybe when someone hurt me\u2014whatever it was, the different things that had made it smaller and locked it away. So finding it and letting it come out was very emotional, and such a feeling that I wish for everybody to have. I wish everybody could know what you feel when you sing at the top of your beautiful voice, and you know what can come out of your body. And it\u2019s not just what you can do for an audience or how you tell a story, it\u2019s that you can make that sound. Maria said something\u2014she said she doesn\u2019t like to hear records, because they\u2019re perfect.\u201d<\/p>\n Cynthia, on singing live for Wicked<\/em>:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWith Broadway, you have to perform to the back of the house. You want them to see everything, you want them to be able to read the emotions, so you have to send it out. When on camera, Jon Chu<\/strong><\/a>, our director, took us off track. There were no tracks; we just agreed to sing live on set\u2026When we were doing a song like \u2018For Good\u2019 [for Wicked: Part Two<\/em>], there\u2019d be silence in my ears, and he\u2019d say, \u2018You start, and the pianist will come in.\u2019 We could even include all the breaks in the voice; if it turns into a whisper, then it turns into a whisper, and then you can build from there. That was really the joy of being able to do all of that on set, because you could really connect in the moment, change your mind in the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n \n