How Angelina earned her big, bad wings
To play “Maleficent,” actress was “forced to do yoga,” she says.
As the Mistress of All Evil of ‘Sleeping Beauty,’ she really earned those wings
Already thought Sleeping Beauty villain Maleficent was scary? Check out her major wings, exclusively revealed by USA TODAY.
From the U.K. set of the epic Disney live-action film, Angelina Jolie reveals what it was like to fly in the classic tale’s reboot — and the workout she had to begrudgingly embrace.
Hooked up on rigs in full costume (yes, even those horns) at Pinewood Studios, “you’re almost like a puppet, with all these people moving ( beneath you),” says Jolie, 38. “When you go to the left or the right, all of you have to move together. It’s a big dance with a lot of people.”
How did she pull it off ? Jolie’s longtime stunt coordinator Eunice Huthart (a close friend, who is also godmother to Shiloh JoliePitt) slowed down and intensified her workouts.
“She made me do yoga. And I have no patience for yoga,” Jolie says. “It’s not something I do easily, because I’m not a still person. But I was forced to do yoga, because (to fly), you have to have your core strength to be able to hold yourself.”
In the end, Maleficent flew with more ferocity than any A-list Disney-backed villain to date. “I feel like the luckiest girl in the world that I get to fly,” Jolie says with a laugh. “I really feel like I’m flying!”
Maleficent will hit theaters May 30.