Angelina Jolie has been hard at work recently promoting latest movie Maleficent and despite the actress being in the showbiz industry for years now, she admits that she did learn more about herself whilst filming the flick.
Maleficent is based on the legendary fairytale of Sleeping Beauty and also stars Angelina's three children; Vivienne, Zahara and Pax.
Speaking to The Huffington Post UK about the Disney movie, Jolie said: "I think I learned more about myself as a woman, which is a very odd thing to say about a horned fairy," she said about the character that she plays.
"Because she has something I think is an interesting thing," she then continued. "She was born full of a sense of justice and she was born good, and then she's abused, and that turns her and makes her darker."
Angelina has spoken out about her Maleficent character (WENN)
Continuing to give us more information on the role that she plays in the much-talked about movie, Jolie said: "And what she does with that, instead of rising above it, she goes to the worst side of her self and becomes vengeful and cruel and hurts innocent people, and then she has to face that and realise what she has become, and face this child that she has done this horrible thing to."
"So it's a lot as a woman, a mother. She struggles with a lot of 'What am I?' It's about dealing with the choices you make," she added.
Going on to speak about the struggles she faced during filming, Angelina said: "I'm not a theatre actress, I don't perform comedies, and she has comedic lines, she needs to come across as very entertaining and that didn't come easy to me," she admits. "I had to figure that out. It took a while to figure out how she should look and feel and sound."
"But I was emotional when I finished this script, I was very moved by it, which is going to surprise people. It's still entertaining and dark and she makes the horrible choice to curse a child, but there is so much more to it."
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She's got a bird and an evil glint in her eye (Disney)
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