Angelina Jolie makes quite the "Maleficent".
While presenting a clip from the upcoming Disney movie at Saturday's D23 Expo in Anaheim, Calif., the actress admitted she frightened numerous small children while playing the lead role in "Maleficent," Disney's villain-themed take on "Sleeping Beauty" fairytale, according to Entertainment Weekly.
"The strange thing was people with little kids would visit the set and I think," Jolie said. "These little kids would visit the set, and I would think, 'Oh, I am a Disney character,' so I would go over to them, and say, 'Hi there.' They would just scream. One little kid even said, 'Mommy, please make the mean witch stop talking to me.'"
However, one little girl wasn't scared of Jolie's portrayal of Sleeping Beauty's nemesis. The actress's daughter Vivienne, who plays young Sleeping Beauty in the movie. According to People Magazine, Jolie said her four-year-old daughter did not scream when she saw her mother in custom.
"She and I got to be part of it together," Jolie said.
Jolie admitted as a child she was always drawn to the scary witch from the cartoon version.
"Since I was a little girl, Maleficent was always my favorite. I was terrified of her, but I was so drawn to her," she said. "I wanted to know more about her, know what she was like and who she was. She had this elegance and grace, and yet she was so cruel, Just wonderfully and deliciously cruel."
The actress then introduced some footage from the film, including a scene of the quarrelsome pixies, a shot of Vivienne as Young Aurora running through a field, and Elle Fanning playing the grown-up princess, destined to fall under Maleficent's curse.
According to E! News President of Walt Disney Studio, Sean Bailey said fans will finally find out what drove Maleficent to curse the innocent baby. The film is directed by Oscar-winning production designer Robert Stromberg.
"We'll see the epic battle with of the dragon, but this time, just maybe, we may find ourselves rooting for the other side," Bailey said.
According to Entertainment Weekly, the movie is a shift on the Disney animated version from 1959.
"But It has to be from the point of view of the villain, so as beautiful as it was it also needed the edge, and to be a little sexy and little darker," Jolie said.
Catch Jolie and her horns in Maleficent in theaters July 2, 2014.
