Angelina Jolie is enchanting audiences once again in the new Disney film Maleficent, and how her role as the "Mistress of all evil" bonded her with her children.

Maleficent tells the tale from the point of view of the evil fairy. Jolie stated in an interview with Entertainment Weekly that she was drawn to it because it raised questions about what turns people evil, vile, aggressive, and cruel.

What could have possibly happened to her that prompted her behavior?

While finding the motivation was half the battle, trying to find a younger Princess Aurora proved challenging. Jolie said that the three to four-year-old children were terrified, and that they really didn't like her as the character, while the bigger kids thought that Maleficent was cool.

Enter Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, the youngest twin-child of the Brangelina couple; she was not afraid of mommy in the makeup, horns, big eyes, and claws. Jolie insists that Vivienne was chosen simply out of necessity.

"We think it's fun for our kids to have cameos and join us on set, but not be actors," Jolie said about her children acting. "That's not the goal for Brad and me at all. I think we would both prefer that they didn't become actors."

E! Online reports that while Vivienne was fearless to Maleficent, her other children were scared. After Jolie told them that she was going to be playing the villain their response was, "She's so scary." Jolie later explained and shared Maleficent's story with her kids.

"This was my test," Jolie said.

Jolie's children were moved and touched in some way by Maleficent's story. Jolie claims she overheard Shiloh getting into a fight with another child about Maleficent; Shiloh defended Maleficent by stating that you don't understand her.

"There's more to people than meets the eye, but that there's injustice," Jolie said. "There is injustice in the world, and children get fired up about it. They want the character they believe in to get up and fight, and when that character makes mistakes, and crosses many lines, you want them [children] to be angry, concerned, confused and somehow understand something they didn't know before."

Jolie, an actress, movie star, and director of two films, endured a preventative double mastectomy last year.

In The New York Times Op-Ed piece, Jolie shocked a lot people with such a personal struggle. Jolie says it made her feel closer to other women and men. With the women Jolie met, they talked about health and women's issues such as, breast cancer and ovarian cancer. With the men, they talked about their daughters' and wives' health.

Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress, humanitarian, director, and is also a mother.

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