Why we all love a Cruella de Villain
Disney ladies who leave us cowering
Emma Stone always puts her heart into her movie roles… but she needed a heart of stone for her latest character.
The star of Hollywood hits such as La La Land has turned screen baddie, playing Cruella de Vil.
And she joins a long list of Disney female villains who have the power to leave fans cowering – and sometimes screaming – in their seats, yet somehow clamouring for more.
Hence new movie Cruella, which has just opened in UK cinemas after Covid restriction were eased.
This is a pprequel,q, in which 32-year-r-old Emma plays the youngung de Vi l , a fashionn designer who sets offff on a journey to badness. ness.
US a c t r e s s Betty Lou Gerson voiced de Vil in the original ginal animated ated f ilm inn 1961 and Glenn lenn C lose played her in the 1996 remake and its sequel in 2000. Close’s first outing as Cruella netted £226million at the box office. And with Emma now in the role, it is yet more proof screen villains are big at the box office. Take Maleficent – chillingly voiced by American actress Eleanor Audley in the 1959 animated movie Sleeping Beauty.
Disney made a killing in 2014 when they cast Angelina Jolie in the title role of Maleficent – reckoned by some critics to be their best villain.
It took £ 536million at the box off ice, resulting ini an inevitable sequesequel five years later. ThereTh is now talk of a third film in the seseries. Here are ourou top five Disney fefemale baddies baddie who scared scar us in theth past – and wi l l keep sscarca ing us in the future. fu