Angelina Jolie: First Mom Than Maleficent
Angelina Jolie said today that she was positively surprised by the interpretation of her daughter Vivienne in "Maleficent", the first film in which she shares a scene with one of her children, an experience that was very familiar but that she does not intend to repeat.
In "Maleficent", Disney's version of his animated classic "Sleeping Beauty" (1959) which opens this Friday, the actress dresses up as the evil fairy who haunted Princess Aurora, whom she gives life to in her most recent stage. Vivienne Jolie-Pitt.
Jolie, 38, and her partner, Brad Pitt, 50, thought twice before letting their 5-year-old make the leap to the big screen "because it's the movie world and all that, "he told the press in Los Angeles to which he explained that his participation in the film served to solve a" casting "problem.
"This happened because there were children who came to the set and saw me. I would come over to greet them and they would cry. One child was completely paralyzed, and then he started crying, and I felt very bad. We realized that there was no way to find a 4- or 5-year-old girl that I could be tough on and didn't see me as a monster, "Jolie said.
At the time, Vivienne was around and "she looked like little Aurora. Everyone thought the answer was there, but I had to go home and talk to Daddy (Pitt) because she's our little girl," the actress said.
The couple, as she said, has always been clear that they want their children, three biological -among them Vivienne- and three adopted, to be part of "the life of mom and dad" and to be around the movies, "that is not stay on the sidelines "and have a" healthy relationship "with that reality, without going any further.
"Brad and I never wanted our children to be actors," Jolie acknowledged that she does not reject the idea that her children try to make a living in Hollywood like their parents, although she does make conditions.
"If when they get older they decide to be actors, I will ask them that this is not the center of their lives, that it be an aspect, but that they also do many other things because I do not think it is healthy for it to be the center of your life," he admitted .
"Maleficent" was, however, a production in which the Jolie-Pitts were very involved.
The actress, who adopts a cold and hard face, wears black and wears horns, practiced the scenes with her children at home to seek her reaction.
"Sometimes they laughed, sometimes they cried. They even hid in a corner," recalled Jolie, who was struck by how her Vivienne worked the scene they have together, although the first day of shooting was not very promising.
"She had to catch a butterfly and she didn't feel like it. I was holding a pulley with a ball at the end (representing the butterfly), the father was at the end of a cliff making faces and her brothers and sisters were taking her there. he finally did and did not want to do it twice, "said the mother.
Jolie attended the press day at a Los Angeles hotel with her children, who waited patiently for her to finish her day's schedule.
"We travel everywhere together, they are home schooled. When I feel like I'm doing too much, I do less. I'm in a position where I can afford not to link jobs," she said.
Pitt and Jolie try to fit their shoots so that one of them is always resting while the other is filming so as not to leave their children unattended and, although it is not always easy for them to meet that schedule, she played down that challenge.
"I am not a single mother with two jobs trying to survive each day. I have a lot of support, I have the financial means. Women in my position should not complain," she stated.
For Jolie "Maleficent" was a professional challenge because she stepped out of her comfort zone to play a well-known character in a children's movie.
"I don't have a theatrical voice, I don't do comical things. It's crazy. I'm a fairy," she said while admitting that it was a good opportunity to do something as an actress "just to play", for fun, without taking herself so really.
Angelina Jolie got involved in the project as the lead, as an executive producer, and played a pivotal role in designing her wardrobe and Maleficent's aesthetic.
"With this character, there is no middle ground, if you are going to do it you have to jump right in," she pointed out.
