Angelina Jolie perfected her voice for the evil queen Maleficent while she was bathing her kids.
The 38-year-old star tried out a number of different way of talking with her brood – Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, nine, Shiloh, seven, and twins Knox and Vivienne, five – to perfect the way she should talk as the evil queen in the new Disney movie.
She explained to website Access Hollywood: “I would give them baths and I would try different voices on them, on different nights. I would tell them stories in different voices and sometimes they would kind of go, ‘That’s a weird voice mom, why are you doing that?’ When I did the one they all started laughing and made me do it over and over again and that’s how I discovered her voice because I thought, it had to be a voice that is just fun to listen to and get really crazy.”
Although Angelina and her fiancé Brad Pitt don’t want their children to go into acting, they allowed Vivienne to play a young Princess Aurora in the movie, but getting her to do what they wanted on set proved harder than they initially realised
Angelina added: “Her first day on set was when she was [in a scene] trying to catch the butterfly, which was a day that I wasn’t working and so mommy and daddy had to be the kind of, the set parents trying to get her to do everything.
“I was holding the stick… with the blue thing on it and kind of dancing and making her follow me, and Brad was on the edge of the cliff kind of singing and making dances and trying to get her to jump into his arms. And it was ridiculous. We were exhausted by the end of that day. It was so hard.”
Angelina also revealed that making Maleficent was like “sharing play time” with her children
The actress also didn’t realise how many of her past movies were unsuitable for family viewing until she started work on the reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story.
She told MailOnline: “I didn’t realise how many films I made that my kids can’t see until I did this! Now I realise which ones but yes it’s been so much fun to have something like this coming out where the kids are so excited and can come see it and they loved to be on set and they played in the fairy mound and they loved meeting Elle [Fanning] and Prince Charming and hanging out. So it was like just sharing this play time, which is of course what I do for a living but when it comes down to this level and this world, you can really share it with your kids and it was the greatest.”
Angelina admitted she was “very scared” of taking on such an iconic character because she didn’t want to “disappoint” anyone
She said: “I was very scared to take it on that I would disappoint the fans and I’m one of them, I was a big fan of hers when I was little and then when you get into it you just want to make sure you make some bold choices and there’s no going back with a character like that. You just have to really think of the audience and really try to be as entertaining and as full on as possible so you don’t disappoint and everyone has a good time watching the movie.”
