Her five-year-old daughter with fiance Brad Pitt
appears in the fairytale remake, and the actress-filmmaker, who plays
the Sleeping Beauty sorceress, admitted the choice was out of necessity
rather than desire.
“We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos
and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad
and I at all,” she told Entertainment Weekly.
“But the other three
and four-year-olds wouldn’t come near me. It had to be a child that
liked me and wasn’t afraid of my horns and my eyes and my claws. So it
had to be Viv.”
Angelina also said that Robert Stromberg’s film
will explore the character of Maleficent, rather than just retell the
Sleeping Beauty story from the villainness’ point of view.
“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?” she explained.
“When that character makes
mistakes – which Maleficent does, and crosses many lines – you want them
to be angry at her and concerned and confused and in the end, somehow
understand something that they didn’t know before.”
Elle Fanning will portray Princess Aurora, with Sharlto Copley as King Stefan in Maleficent, which opens in cinemas on May 30.
