Angelina Jolie to play Sleeping Beauty's Maleficent in Disney movie?

Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie has fuelled rumours that she will play Maleficent in the upcoming Disney movie about the Sleeping Beauty character.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the actress revealed that her next role would be for the company at a press conference for her latest film In the Land of Blood and Honey in Berlin.

She said: "I haven't acted in two years, and I haven't done anything else since [In the Land of Blood and Honey]. The next thing I am looking at is a Disney movie."

In a December interview with the website, she revealed that her children want her to make the movie and even call her "mum-elicent".

Maleficent is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Walt Disney's 1959 adaptation of Sleeping Beauty.

She is the self-proclaimed 'Mistress of All Evil' who, after not being invited to the baby's christening, curses the infant Princess Aurora to "prick her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel and die" before the sun sets on her 16th birthday.

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