Jolie/Pitt's 5-year-old daughter gets first acting role
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E-mail CRI, May 8, 2014
Angelina Jolie has been speaking of her new role in the spooky Disney Movie 'Maleficent'.
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Angelina Jolie plays the cruel character in the film "Maleficent." [File photo] |
The actress plays the cruel character from 'Sleeping Beauty' in the film, which is out at the end of this month.
The tale shifts the traditional focus away from Princess Aurora and instead tells the untold story of Maleficent who protects the forest kingdom over which she presides and all the creatures that dwell there. It reveals how her pure heart was turned stone cold by a harsh betrayal.
Jolie's striking appearance caused a slight technical issue however, as the children who they wanted to play the young Aurora were all too terrified to perform once they saw her.
The solution? To use Jolie's own 5-year-old daughter.
"It came naturally because we didn't want her to be in a film, don't want to push our children to be actors, but there were a few little kids that came to set and every time they saw me they'd scream and one little boy said: 'Mummy tell the mean witch to stop talking to me'. So, they really were, I couldn't, so we couldn't really cast somebody who would be loving towards a monster, but Vivienne is that little girl that kind of clings to her mum no matter what I'm doing and so she was unfazed by me being very mean and even my character says to her: 'I don't like children, go away' and she just smiles and thinks that's great."
There's another connection too as the older version of Princess Aurora is played by Elle Fanning who starred opposite, Jolie's husband Brad Pitt in 'The Curious Case of Benjamin Button'.
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