Angelina Jolie on 'Maleficent': 'She Has A Dark Side' (VIDEO)
Angelina Jolie is taking on the dark side in the upcoming "Maleficent," which is causing a great deal of anticipation among fans of Jolie and Disney's classic "Sleeping Beauty." Jolie recently gave an interview in which she explained why daughter Vivienne had to be cast as the young Princess Aurora, and a new trailer was released with new information about the evil Maleficent.
"She has a darkness," Jolie told Entertainment Weekly about her character. "And how do you make a film about someone who curses a baby and make them relatable? It's like the worst thing you could possibly do."
But that didn't stop Jolie from tapping into her "dark side" for the film and trying to give Maleficent, one Disney's classic villains, a softer side in order to appeal to viewers. For years, Maleficent has been associated with evil and death, but Jolie wanted to explore her in-depth to draw something else out from the character.
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"The exercise wasn't, how can we have fun with a villain? It was: what turns people evil and vile and aggressive and cruel. What could have possibly happened to her that would get her to that moment in the christening? She wasn't invited, so she's pissed off?" Jolie asked.
Anyone who's seen the trailer for "Maleficent" has every right to be afraid of the character and the movie itself, including Jolie's costume. That's why, according to Jolie, daughter Vivienne was the perfect, perhaps only, choice for playing the young Princess Aurora.
"She was 4 and the time and other 3- and 4-year old [actors] wouldn't come near me. Big kids thought I was cool, but little kids really didn't like me," Jolie explained. "So, in order to have a child that wants to play with Maleficent, but I don't want to play with her – to have that scene – it had to be a child that really liked me and wasn't afraid of my horns and my eyes and my claws … So it had to be Viv."
Watch the new "Maleficent" trailer here:
