In Maleficentbroadcast Friday January 17, 2025 at 9:10 p.m. on M6, Angelina Jolie plays the one who will become the evil witch of Sleeping Beauty. A role that the actress really wanted to play, even if she had some fears.
Ah Disney villains, we love to hate them! Whether it’s the horrible Cruella who literally wants to kill puppies in the cult cartoon 101 Dalmatiansthe evil Ursula who steals Ariel’s voice in The Little Mermaidor the awful Lady Trémaine who treats Cinderella like a slave, all compete in ignominy. But if there is one who has certainly terrified generations of children, it is Maleficent, the terrible witch from Sleeping Beauty. To understand why she became so evil, you have to look Maleficentbroadcast Friday January 17, 2025 at 9:10 p.m. on M6 which retraces his youth, with Angelina Jolie in the main role.
Why playing Maleficent represents “a real challenge” for Angelina Jolie?
For Brad Pitt’s ex-wife, playing Maleficent is quite a challenge. “I wanted to take the risk of playing a role that I had never played before. I was very nervous about playing Maleficent, because she’s so theatrical. And this voice, this appearance… It was a real challenge for me as an actress“, she explained at the time of the film’s release to Tele-Leisure. It is true that Angelina Jolie has rarely played bad in the cinema. But as the actress explains, Maleficent is not just a binary and Manichean villain…”Most fairy tales are about Good and Evil. The particularity of Maleficent is that she has both in her. She wasn’t born bad. She has become the one who does evil. How did this happen? How can she live with this?“, she analyzes, before adding: “She is terrifying, but very elegant and graceful. And we also have the feeling that she quite enjoys playing villains.“
“I had to take off my makeup… “: Angelina Jolie shares how her Maleficent costume scared her children
If Angelina Jolie decided to take on the costume of the terrible Maleficent, it is therefore to take on a role different from those she has played before, but there is another reason, and a rather cute one, which made her impelled to act in this film: her children. “I’m very excited because my kids are very excited. And it’s great!“, she exclaims. Fans of Disney cartoons, like all little blond heads, they were delighted to see their mother embody an emblematic character of this magical universe. However, they certainly did not expect that their mother, once dressed as Maleficent, was so impressive. Indeed, her costume terrorized her children, notably Pax, 10 years old at the time of filming, who ran away when he saw his mother in the skin. of the wicked witch for the first time.I thought he was joking so I chased him until I realized he was really scared and crying. I had to take off my makeup in front of him to show him it was all fake“, she remembers. You have to believe that they ended up getting used to it since, when she took over the role for a second part, they were almost all there to surround her at the premiere of Maleficent 2.
