While Shiloh turned down the adorable role, the part was then given to Jolie's youngest daughter Vivienne. Most of the little girls that auditioned for the role ended up being terrified of Jolie in her Maleficient costume, except for little Vivienne!
She was offered the chance to play a young Aurora in her mom's 2014 film Maleficent, but she turned it down. "I asked Shiloh about being Aurora, and she laughed in my face," Jolie told Elle. "She said she'd be a horned creature." Her younger sister, Vivienne, took the role instead.
Angelina Jolie has revealed the reason why her daughter Vivienne, 5, was cast in her new film Maleficent. The 38-year-old admitted she didn't set out for Vivienne to be an actor. However, Vivienne was the only child actor she could find who wasn't terrified of her in costume.
Vivienne Jolie-Pitt (born July 12, 2008) is an American actress who portrays Young Aurora in Maleficent. She is the daughter of Angelina Jolie who portrays Maleficent.
Fortunately, the baby found an adoptive family in the real world, and it's revealed that the child has a star birthmark on her wrist, just like the one young Lily and Emma bonded over as children.
What happened when Angelina asked Shiloh to be in Maleficent?
Did Maleficent give birth to Aurora?
The irony is that Aurora was taken from her mother to protect her from Maleficent, but, to Aurora, Leila is simply the woman who gave birth to her while she refers to Maleficent as her Fairy Godmother.
This means the earliest likely release date for Maleficent 3 would be 2026 or 2027. This comes down to the franchise's rather ambitious production scope. The second film came with all the thrills of an epic fantasy, and it's likely that Disney would want to top this—and that takes time to achieve.
In Maleficent (2014), the young Aurora was played by Angelina Jolie's daughter Vivienne. The 5-year-old got the part because she was the only child who wasn't terrified of Jolie in her Maleficent makeup. Several other younger children auditioned and wouldn't go near her.
"We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors ... But the other three- and four-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."
Did Angelina Jolie have prosthetics for Maleficent?
DEL BARCO: He says Jolie was inspired by the ridge-like cheekbones Lady Gaga wore in her "Born This Way" video, and she suggested contact lenses resembling goat eyes. The seven-time Oscar winner and his team created elegant prosthetics for Maleficent - besides the cheekbones, a fake nose bridge and pointy fairy ears.
Vivienne, who has a twin brother Knox, is Brad and Angelina's biological daughter. Born in Nice, France in 2008, Vivienne has taken her mother (and Shiloh's) lead by stepping in front of the camera. She appeared in Angelina's film, Maleficent as a young Princess Aurora. She was five years old at the time.
Brad Pitt shares six children, Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, with his ex-wife Angelina Jolie, but there have been several reports that the Mr and Mrs Smith actor is estranged from his family. Here's what we know about Brad's relationship with his children here…
Maleval (Male/ficent and Dia/val) is the friendship/romantic pairing of Maleficent and Diaval, the eponymous protagonist and the tritagonist of Disney's Maleficent franchise. The actors who portray Maleficent and Diaval are Angelina Jolie and Sam Riley, respectively.
During this time, Maleficent's species is identified as 'Dark Fey', although Maleficent's powers are unique to her due to her being the latest reincarnation of the powerful Phoenix.
She was called "Beastie" by Maleficent. At first, Maleficent hated Aurora, but Maleficent soon had developed a close bond with her, so she now calls Aurora "Beastie" as a nickname and a sign of affection towards her.
Anya Taylor-Joy auditioned for the teen version of Angelina Jolie's titular character in Maleficent. She told BuzzFeed, "It was my first experience of rejection, like true rejection. And it was Disney which, for me, was like, 'Oh my god,' even though I look nothing like [Angelina Jolie].
On cue, Maleficent in the present wants to know what Charming and Snow did with her child. In the past, Snow and Charming steal Maleficent's egg in order to have the Sorcerer's apprentice put Emma's evil inside of it. It was going to be bad anyway, right? That was Snow's irrational reasoning.
