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"Angry Angie! As part of her preparation for Maleficent, Angelina Jolie said she had to bring her scary costume home to practice for her role as the &amp;quot;Mistress of All Evil&amp;quot; in the upcoming Disney thriller.\r\n&amp;quot;I loved being Maleficent,&amp;quot; Jolie, 38, told Entertainment Weekly for its March 18 issue. &amp;quot;I was quite sad to put my staff down and put my horns away because somehow, she just lives in a different world,&amp;quot; the star said of her dark character. &amp;quot;But I did have to take my staff home to practice walking with it in my cloak, and then I would go outside and scream at the bushes to expand my voice and play with my voice. So, mom was a bit nutso for a period.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control,&amp;quot; Jolie said of the titular villainess. &amp;quot;And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She&amp;apos;s bigger than me. She&amp;apos;s on a different level of performance that I have never done. She&amp;apos;s very still. She&amp;apos;s very sure of herself, but I couldn&amp;apos;t figure out her voice, I kept playing with these different types of British voices, making my voice darker and scarier.&amp;quot;\r\nUltimately, Jolie was able to find Maleficent&amp;apos;s voice in the most odd setting of all places -- while giving her kids a bath! &amp;quot;I started making up other stories about Maleficent,&amp;quot; she shared. &amp;quot;And they weren&amp;apos;t really paying attention to me, as children often do. You can bore them to death, until I started to mess around with this playful [sing-songy] voice.&amp;quot;\r\nHow exactly would she describe it? &amp;quot;It gets very, very dark. But it had these colors. My kids started laughing. And that&amp;apos;s how I would rehearse my scenes. I would do it until my kids were somehow smiling or thought that was funny, because you have to do that and go there with her.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nJolie, in many ways, was inspired by her six kids -- Maddox, 12, Pax, 10, Zahara, 9, Shiloh, 7, and twins Vivienne and Knox, 5 -- from the moment she signed on to do the film. &amp;quot;Children have always been told she&amp;apos;s pure evil. And she is evil, but it&amp;apos;s not all she is, and it&amp;apos;s not fair that her story was left there,&amp;quot; Jolie explained.\r\n&amp;quot;I told my kids I was playing Maleficent and they went &amp;apos;She&amp;apos;s so scary!&amp;apos; and I said &amp;apos;Let me tell you the real story but you can&amp;#x2019;t tell anybody&amp;apos; so I put them in the room and I told them the [film&amp;apos;s] story,&amp;quot; the mother of six recalled. The following day, Jolie heard daughter Shiloh defending Maleficent to a peer. &amp;quot;You don&amp;#x2019;t understand her!&amp;quot; the little one said. &amp;quot;I thought that&amp;apos;s the reason to do the film,&amp;quot; Jolie shared.\r\nAlthough the kids defended Maleficent, they were still bothered by her costume. &amp;quot;It&amp;apos;s the [yellow] eyes that are the most frightening, and the horns,&amp;quot; Jolie dished. &amp;quot;And I do have pointy teeth in the back that you&amp;apos;ll see close up. There&amp;apos;s just something with the horns and the heels, so she&amp;apos;s very big.&amp;quot; The horns, however, caused awkward moments for Jolie. &amp;quot;It was pretty funny, because I kept on hitting my horns on things, the framing was very strange,&amp;quot; she shared.\r\n\r\nSo how did her handsome fiance Brad Pitt react to his wife in costume? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#x2019;t know! You know, I never asked him,&amp;quot; Jolie admitted to EW. &amp;quot;He thinks she&amp;apos;s cool.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nAlong with mom, three of the Jolie-Pitt kids have roles in the film: Viv plays young Princess Aurora, while Pax and Zahara both play princes and princesses from foreign lands. &amp;quot;It was Pax and his teacher, who is Vietnamese, playing the Vietnamese Queen  and Prince and then Zahara and her teacher playing the African or Nubian queen and princess. I love that christening scene so much and of course we&amp;apos;ve watched [Sleeping Beauty] at home as a family,&amp;quot; she said.\r\nMaleficent is due out May 30."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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