Angelina Jolie still wants to play a villain, because Maleficent wasn't one

Most of Jolie's baddies end up being secretly good, like Maleficent Angelina Jolie still wants "to play a villain," she says in a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. You'd think in her many years in the biz, she'd have played a baddie by now, but none that meet Jolie's standards. Even Maleficent was actually "a good guy," the actor points out.

"My villains end up being good guys. I suppose every villain is usually just someone in pain." Maleficent does indeed fall into a particular niche of Disney's live action strategy that actually brings something new to the source material, except the "something new" is giving new.



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