Everybody loves a villain – especially one that is played by Angeline Jolie. This summer will see the Oscar winning actress front a film which is all about Sleeping Beauty’s nemesis in the highly anticpated MALEFICENT.
The trailer sent the internet world into meltdown, giving us glimpses of a spectacularly creepy Jolie, hiding in the woods. Jolie isn’t the only one of her family to make an appearance in the movie though as she is joined by daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt and her mother explained how her 4-year-old came to be cast as a young version of Princess Aurora:
The other 3- and 4-year-old [performers] 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.”
The Jolie’s are joined by a pretty stellar cast which includes the new Doctor Who Peter Capaldi, Sam Riley, Juno Temple, Imelda Staunton and Elle Fanning as the older version of Aurora.The aim of the film is to show the audience another side to the famous ‘wicked’ character. TV’s Once Upon A Time have done this recently, to much success with their version of the Queen from Snow White, Regina. Jolie goes onto explain the thought-process behind the story:
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?
Disney Princesses have been beloved by leagues of children for generations, is it now the time for the tide to change? The film-makers desire to create some empthay for the character has already worked with Jolie’s own children. So much so that she has overheard elder daughter Shiloh defending Maleficent to other kids.
MALEFICENT directed by Robert Stromberg, starring Angelina Jolie, Peter Capaldi, Sam Riley, and Elle Fanning, will be released in cinemas across the US and UK on 30th May 2014.
Source:EW
Kat Hughes is a UK born film critic and interviewer who has a passion for horror films. An editor for THN, Kat is also a Rotten Tomatoes Approved Critic. She has bylines with Ghouls Magazine, Arrow Video, Film Stories, Certified Forgotten and FILMHOUNDS and has had essays published in home entertainment releases by Vinegar Syndrome and Second Sight. When not writing about horror, Kat hosts micro podcast Movies with Mummy along with her five-year-old daughter.
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