Angelina Jolie channels her Disney villain in black lace dress while Elle Fanning looks sharp in a scarlet suit at Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil photocall
They’re jetting around the world promoting their anticipated follow-up to 2014 box office his Maleficent.
And stars Angelina Jolie and Elle Fanning, 21, put on another fashionable display as they hit the red carpet at London’s Mandarin Oriental Hotel on Thursday for a photocall to promote Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil.
Angelina, 44, channeled her title character’s dark side with a black lace dress, while her co-star chose a sharp suit.
Angelina showed off her chic sense of style in her midi-length black dress with sheer lace sleeves.
The Hollywood star pulled out all the stops with her quirky choice of accessories, adding a spiked headband to match her studded belt and silver-detail heels.
The finishing touch were long silver false nails, with her manicure topped off with statement rings.
Elle meanwhile matched the red carpet in her bold choice of suit, matching a tailored blazer with cullote trousers, shirt and tie. Even her heels matched the all-red colour palette.
Maleficent is the evil fairy in the classic 1959 animation Sleeping Beauty, with Angelina playing her in a 2014 live-action film.
Just five years on, Jolie is playing her again in Mistress Of Evil, still wearing black horns, fighting fairies and sorting out her conflicted maternal feelings towards sweet Princess Aurora (Fanning).
This time she has competition from the neighbouring Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) who causes a rift between our anti-heroine and Aurora, when her son Prince Phillip returns to the kingdom and proposes to the Princess.
Unbeknown to Aurora, Ingrith is plotting to use their marriage to divide humans and fairies forever, and it is up to Maleficent to try and stop the impending war.
Chiwetel Ejiofor joins the cast as the leader of an army of fairies just like Maleficent, while Harris will replace Brenton Thwaites as Prince Phillip.
The original 2014 film grossed a whopping $758million worldwide, and brought another success addition to Disney’s series of dark fairy tales.
At Thursday’s press conference for the movie, which followed the European premiere on Wednesday night, Angelina and Elle mused about the film’s creation of female role models.
‘We show very diverse types of women within our characters, but also we have extraordinary men in the film and I really want to press that fact,’ Angelina told press.
‘Very often in a story that is told about a strong woman she has to beat the man, or she has to be like the man or she has to somehow not need the man and we both very much need and love and learn from the men and so I think that’s also an important message for young girls to find their own power but also to respect men and women’.
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‘I think for me I felt a real responsibility to do the second film,’ Elle continued.
‘For me it was the first film I had done of that scale, probably the only one I’d done of this scale, so young kids saw the film and young girls would come up to me and say you’re Aurora and they would look at me as the character.’
‘I’ve never had that with a character before and hearing that we were doing a sequel I felt a responsibility to those girls for sure, and I was so excited to get to show Aurora as a young woman and grown up.;
‘It was so fun to come back…Our relationships have grown and changed, I’m 21 now, I’m older I wasn’t the kid on set anymore.’
‘I felt accepted on set in a way, especially with Michelle and Angelina, they looked at me, it was an amazing feeling because it felt like they included me, I was one of their peers and that was a really special feeling to feel that way.’
Maleficent: Mistress Of Evil opens in UK cinemas on October 18.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
