‘Maleficent’ Images Feature Angelina Jolie And Her Child/Co-Star
The live-action fairy tale craze continues this summer withMaleficent, an origin tale of sorts for one of Disney’s most famous villains. And although starAngelina Jolielaughs that it’s “really funny when people say you’d be obvious for a great villain,” these newMaleficentimages prove that she is indeed the perfect choice to play the Mistress of All Evil.
Also featured in this latest batch is Aurora a.k.a. Sleeping Beauty, in two different forms: as a teenager played byElle Fanning, and as a small child played by Jolie’s daughterVivienne Jolie-Pitt. Check out all the photos plus a Maleficent EW cover after the jump.
EWpremiered the badass cover and the still of Jolie and her daughter.
And here are some other stills that have been making the rounds, viaThe Playlist.
In herEWinterview, Jolie talks about humanizing the classic Disney villainess. “The exercise wasn’t how can we have fun with a villain?” she says. “It was: What turns people evil and vile and aggressive and cruel? What could have possibly happened to her?”
But at first, Jolie explains, even her own children were intimidated by the character. Vivienne was cast as Aurora because she was the only one of Jolie’s kids who wasn’t.
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. But 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.
MaleficentopensMay 30.
