It’s difficult to imagine Angelina Jolie dedicating herself to terrifying young children worldwide as Disney’s ‘deliciously evil’ Maleficent. Jolie was so divinely evil that her daughter Vivienne was cast as the young Aurora, who could handle the Mistress of All Evil hissing “I don’t like children” in her face.

“And my little Vivienne — we call her my shadow, because there’s nothing I can do to shake her. I can be tired, I can be grumpy, I can be in a terrible mood, and she just doesn’t care. It’s ‘Mommy, Mommy’ and she’ll cling to me,” Jolie says. “We knew that she would still do that thing, she’d still smile at me and insist that I pick her up. So we couldn’t really cast anybody else.”

For Elle Magazine’s June issue, Angelina Jolie is lensed deliciously, darkly at ease in ‘Untamed Heart’ by Hedi Slimane, styled by Joe Zee. / Hair by Adam Campbell; makeup by Tony G