Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> Well I\u2019ll take that as huge compliment. I would love to think so. I think that was part of the thing with this role —\u00a0you realize that there\u2019s no halfway, that if you\u2019re gonna do it, you can\u2019t kind of do it. You\u2019re gonna have to just to fully get into it and enjoy it. And the original was done so well and her voice was so great and the way she was animated was so perfect that if anything, I just was so worried I\u2019d fail the original. But I practiced a lot with my children, and… and when I got them laughing I figured I was on to something.<\/p>\n Question: Got them laughing —\u00a0is that what you were going for?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie: <\/strong>Well they laughed, they cried. They did hide in the corner for a bit.<\/p>\n Question: Your own daughter was in the movie, and I\u2019ve read that you were maybe a little reluctant to do that, to have her in the movie.<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> Well, Brad and I never wanted our kids to be actors. We never talked about it as a thing, you know? But we also want them to be around film and be a part of mommy and daddy\u2019s life and for it not to be kept from them either\u00a0—\u00a0just for them to have a good, healthy relationship with it. And this came about because there were kids that would come to set and they would see me and I would go up and say hi to them and they would cry. I actually had one child completely freeze and then cry, it was like terror. And so I felt so bad, but we realized that there was no way that we were going to find a\u00a0four- or five-year-old (for this bit role) that I could be as strong with that would not see me as a monster, and suddenly there was Vivie running around looking like little Aurora and everybody kind of thought, \u201cOh, the answer\u2019s right there.\u201d But then I had to go home and talk to dad, and we both sat around thinking. It\u2019s our kid, so it\u2019s so sweet, the idea of it\u2019s so cute to us as mommy and daddy, but then the fact that she\u2019s in a film and suddenly it\u2019s out in the world and film and all that… it took us a second, but we came around to it.<\/p>\n Question: Well, how\u2019d she like it? How\u2019d she work on the set?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie: <\/strong>She was good. The first day was the day she had to catch the butterfly and she just really didn\u2019t feel like doing it. So I actually was holding the pole with the ball on the end and bouncing up and down and kind of dancing trying to make her laugh. And daddy was on the edge of the cliff she had to jump off, kind of making faces and doing all these things. And her brothers and sisters were kind of egging her on, and you know, so she eventually did it, but she was just taking her sweet time and not wanting to do it. But then when we got to our scene, we\u2019d kind of practiced it a little bit at home where I\u2019d say, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m gonna say go away and then you try to, you know, get back\u201d … So by the time we did that, when we did it together we had a good time, we played together and … I was actually shocked that she was doing so well, you know? Inside I thought, \u201cOh, she went back and hit her mark, it\u2019s frightening.\u201d<\/p>\n Question: Might you have your kids in other movies after this experience?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> I\u00a0just want them to like it like this. I want them to do it for fun only, and if, when they get older they decide to be actors, I would just ask that that not (be) the center of their lives —\u00a0that that\u2019s an aspect but that they also do many other things with their lives and are involved in many other things. Because I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a healthy focus as a center of your life.<\/p>\n Question: What part did timing play in this? If this project had come up five years ago, would you have considered it?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong>\u00a0I don\u2019t know. I mean, it\u2019s such a great project I imagine I would always have considered it, but I think it was really … after having directed and thinking that I wasn\u2019t sure if I wanted to act or how good I\u2019d be … this challenge of it wasn\u2019t returning to act, it wasn\u2019t anything normal. It was such a crazy idea and I was so challenged by it and my kids are now all watching all these movies and wanting to play with mommy and it was perfect timing to have them all on set, playing, being a part of the adventure with me, and for me as an actress to not do something where I\u2019m taking myself so seriously. It was a good time to just remember what it is to play and entertain and try something bold.<\/p>\n Question: So motherhood had everything to do with it then?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> It had a lot to do with it —\u00a0and then also the artist in me felt that it was good to do something bold every once in a while, that you\u2019re not comfortable with, and\u00a0that you haven\u2019t done. You know, I was actually a\u00a0bit nervous to take her on. I just thought, you know, I don\u2019t have a big theater voice, I don\u2019t do things that are kind of comedic —\u00a0this is such a crazy idea, that\u00a0I\u2019m a fairy. But somehow it\u2019s great to jump into things that you\u2019re not sure of and you haven\u2019t done and are a little scary —\u00a0that\u2019s what we have to do as artists.<\/p>\n Question: What would a non-parent under-estimate about what actually appeals to kids in movies… or, you know, what kids specifically might love about this Maleficent?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> Well it was interesting —\u00a0my boys saw an early cut of \u201cUnbroken\u201d the other day and I thought they would be talking about the sharks, and instead they asked me about one of the character\u2019s deaths. And I was very confused by that so… no, not confused, I was surprised… you know, I think the depth that children can handle and what they\u2019re really interested in is much deeper than I think people assume. And it think it\u2019s why sometimes we make things too simple for them. They want to understand things that frighten them, they want to see dark things that happen and they want to see how to rise above them —\u00a0they don\u2019t want to be hidden from all things and have everything sweetened. I think that\u2019s something that always surprises me about children.<\/p>\n Question: Could you describe the process of getting ready —\u00a0the prosthetics, the makeup, everything?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> It wasn\u2019t that much. The creation of it took a little time to figure out — how to do the horns, you know, even how to get them on my head and how do they stay on the head. We used my hair as kind of braids to nail it down to different things. Well, it was a headpiece, of course, with the horns, it wasn\u2019t like a headband. So we kind of put my my hair in these balls and then you put the headpiece over and you pull the braids through and then you use it to anchor it. And then we had different horns. At first they were too heavy, then we got them softer, then we found ones that would snap off because I kept banging into things, and, you know, it just all slowly came together. We tried different things and some of the things didn\u2019t work, you know. We had feather hair at one point. We went about crazy [thinking], \u201cWell, she\u2019s a bird so maybe she has feather hair instead.\u201d But we finally just wanted to have a character that when you\u2019re watching, when you\u2019re seeing the dramatic scenes, you feel that you can watch her without [just] staring at the makeup. We wanted to really find a balance so it was kind of an enhanced face but it still felt like a real face somehow —\u00a0that a soul could still come out through that face.<\/p>\n Question: Is Maleficent a character you could imagine returning to in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie: <\/strong>Nobody\u2019s asked me that. I don\u2019t know. I\u2019m not dead at the end of it so … she\u2019s still there. But I don\u2019t know. I loved playing her (though).<\/p>\n Question: Why did you feel so strongly in the first place that this was the story that really you needed to tell?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie: <\/strong>Well, I think I wanted to do something that my children can see, I wanted to have fun and explore different art and performance in a way I hadn\u2019t done. But most of all, I read the script and I was really moved by it and I actually got very emotional when I finished it and I thought it was one of the best scripts I had read in a long time because of the issues it dealt with. I thought it was, in fact, an important story to tell.<\/p>\n Question: In regards to the experience you had as a director with your first film —\u00a0I know you came out the other side of it as something you were so proud of, but returning to (the director’s chair)\u00a0the second time do you feel a little different… were you more assured in a way?<\/strong><\/p>\n Angelina Jolie:<\/strong> Yes, but I jumped into something so much bigger, so it was daunting in a whole different way because \u201cBlood and Honey\u201d I wrote, it was (set) in a few rooms, there were certain things to tackle and certainly the politics of it which you balance and many, many things like that. But getting into \u201cUnbroken,\u201d it\u2019s suddenly… you know, two plane crashes and shark attacks and 47 days at sea and three prison camps and the 1936 Olympics and, you know, it races. You wake up in the morning and you think, \u201cGod, there\u2019s a way to do that, isn\u2019t there?\u201d …There were just days I didn\u2019t know if we would be able to track it all and accomplish it all, because we didn\u2019t have that much money, we didn\u2019t have that much time. So it was kind of a new scare.<\/p>\n Question: Sort of to that same point, I understand you were very instrumental in\u00a0helping (director) Robert Stromberg to take on this massive of a project, in his\u00a0directorial debut.\u00a0Can you tell me about that?<\/strong><\/p>\n
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