Mistress of evil or meddling mother? Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) appears as more of the latter in this scene from the sequel to the 2014 fantasy film. When Aurora (Elle Fanning), tells her godmother, Maleficent, that she is planning to wed, she does not get a cheery reaction.
In an interview, the director Joachim Ronning said that he wanted to capture in Maleficent and Aurora his own feelings and concerns as a parent, and that he saw this relationship between the two characters as central to what drew him to the project.
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