The Jolie-Pitt brood appear to have caught the acting bug from their folks. Last August, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s four-year-old daughter was cast as the young Princess Aurora in Maleficent, starring her superstar mother in the title role. Now, two siblings are set to join the production, and with a 2014 release date, could there be room for more?
Jolie and Pitt’s son Pax, 8, and daughter Zahara, 7, are also set to appear in the big screen spin on the Sleeping Beauty tale, Us Weekly reports, adding that their parts will be small and they will not have speaking roles.
Four year-old Vivienne joined the Maleficent cast as the young Princess Aurora. She eventually grows up to be the enemy to the evil Maleficent. Walt Disney Productions confirmed the addition in August.
Daughter Shiloh, 6, meanwhile also nearly appeared in the movie, but she was apparently not in the mood during the day her part was supposed to shoot. She made an appearance in her dad’s feature The Curious Case of Benjamin Button in 2008.
Maleficent, directed by Robert Stromberg (Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End), also stars Sharlto Copley, Elle Fanning, Sam Riley, Imelda Staunton, Miranda Richardson, Juno Temple and Lesley Manville. It is slated for a 3-D release in March, 2014.
The pic retells the Sleeping Beauty story from the POV of villainess Maleficent. Fourteen year-old Fanning will play the grown-up Princess Aurora and gave a shout-out to Jolie in a recent E! News interview. “She’s so elegant. She looks just amazing as Maleficent, all her costumes and her makeup. You know, it’s like an elegant scary—sort of spooky. But you get used to it…It’s perfect.”
[Sources: Huffington Post, Yahoo, Us Weekly, E!]
Nepotism strikes again (but that’s okay): Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s 4-year-old daughter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt has scored her first movie role. The tot will play a young version of Princess Aurora, later played as a teenager by 14-year-old Elle Fanning, in Disney’s live-action Maleficent, which stars Jolie as the famous evil witch of Sleeping Beauty lore and is in production gearing towards a 2014 release. According to The Sun, it was mama Jolie’s idea: “Ange thought it would be a fun experience for her and Viv to share, and Viv is a natural.” [The Sun via The Insider]
Chelsea Handler must not mind it when a scorned Brangeloonie leaves a severed Grey Goose (The vodka bottle, not the animal. That hurts Chelsea more.) on her doorstep, because she’s still throwing shit at St. Angie Jo’s glowing halo. Chelsea got banned from heaven’s gates back in 2010 when she called Angie a home wrecking cunt during her stand-up act and the ho is at again. During an interview with More magazine (via Page Six), Jennifer Aniston’s long lost sister separated at the tequila bottle farted at the mouth about how there’s certain women that other women shouldn’t trust. When More asked Chelsea what her idea of a non-girl’s girl is, she summoned an ice cold, razor sharp side-eye from Maddox by saying this:
“Probably Angelina Jolie . . . She [Jolie] doesn’t strike me as someone I would have a close friendship with.”
Does Jennifer Aniston fill Chelsea’s pool with top shelf vodka every time she publicly puts Angie’s name on the bitch list, because damn it’s like those two got a bet going or something. I love the shade of it all. But Chelsea doesn’t have to tell us she’s not ever going to make Angie a size -10 friendship bracelet, because we all know that she’s the CEO of TEAM JEN. Chelsea hates Angie as much as she hates sunscreen and water that doesn’t get you drunk. But does Chelsea know that Jesus transferred his powers over to Angie so that bitch can turn potatoes into vodka and Perrier into mimosas, because that could be a deal breaker.
