Angelina Jolie transformed herself into the villian in Disney’s MALEFICIENT but what did that mean for the child actors? They were terrified of her! Decked out in all the make up, horns, claws etc. she was too scary for the other 3 and 4 year old actors. Not Viv though! She was the only one that wasn’t scared of her mom. And that is how Viv, now 5, was cast as young version of Princess Aurora.
“We think it’s fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not to be actors. That’s not our goal for Brad and I at all,” Jolie says. “But the other 3- and 4-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.”