By now we've heard why exactly Angelina Jolie decided to cast her young daughter with Brad Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, as a young Princess Aurora in the upcoming Maleficent motion picture.
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.
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.
In August 2012, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Jolie's real-life daughter with Brad Pitt, was announced to play 5-year-old Aurora. She was cast due to being the only child on the film set who wasn't frightened of Jolie in a full Maleficent costume. Jolie also offered the role to her other daughter, Shiloh, but she refused.
Vivienne, playing a young Princess Aurora, looks predictably adorable and angelic in her white dress, trailing behind her mother, who is dressed as an evil villain with horns.
Angelina Jolie and kids behind the scene of Maleficent
Did they have to use Angelina Jolie's daughter in Maleficent?
"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."
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.
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.
She is the leader of the Disney Villains. She is also Mal's mother, and Hades' wife. Maleficent is considered the most dangerous and feared villainess, such that invoking her name strikes fear and terror in people's hearts. Maleficent is portrayed by Kristin Chenoweth.
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.
Shortly after Stefan is done with his chat with Maleficent's wings, Queen Leila dies of an illness, and she never gets the chance to meet her daughter, who on the other hand is unaware of her identity and was not given the chance to learn about her mother due to Stefan's obsession causing him to neglect her as well.
Since watching Aurora over her childhood years, Maleficent soon grew a maternal love for her. One day Aurora thought that Maleficent was her faerie godmother and often visited the Moors while Maleficent tried to stop the curse but she herself had said no power on Earth could cure it apart from true love's kiss.
When the dark fairy's curse is at last fulfilled, despite her efforts to renounce it, Maleficent herself (rather than Phillip) breaks the spell with a remorseful kiss on Aurora's brow.
Even though Maleficent is a heroine, she is still presented as a satanic figure. Her iconic horns (which Disney artist Marc Davis, who designed Maleficent, says were inspired by the traditional look of the devil, to “frighten everybody half to death”) are present even before Stefan's betrayal.
What happened to the queens brother in Maleficent?
When Queen Ingrith was young, her brother, on behalf of their father, was sent to declare peace between magical creatures and humans. He was soon found to be killed by a magical creature.
What is the name of the Maleficent with her real daughter?
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's daughter Vivienne may be the only one of their kids who appears in Maleficent opposite her mom, but the entire family started off being in the film.
