When Shiloh Jolie-Pitt was a baby, she appeared next to Brad Pitt in “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.” As she grew older and developed an understanding of what being in a film meant, she became less eager to star alongside her parents on the big screen. Angelina Jolie wanted Shiloh to be in the 2014 blockbuster “Maleficent,” but her daughter didn’t share her enthusiasm. “I asked Shiloh about being Aurora, and she laughed in my face,” Jolie told Elle in 2014. “She said she’d be a horned creature.”
Her younger sister Vivienne had no issues playing a little Aurora. Despite turning down the big role, Shiloh, who was six when production started in 2012, reportedly agreed to make a cameo with her siblings, Pax and Zahara Jolie-Pitt. That never came to be, though. “She was bored and not in the mood during the day her part was supposed to happen, so she ended up not being in the film,” a source told Us Weekly in 2012. The same was true for the 2019 sequel “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.”
This time, though, the other members of the Jolie-Pitt clan followed in Shiloh’s footsteps and refused cameos in their mom’s film — much to Jolie’s disappointment. “I tried,” the actor told People in 2019. “Nobody was interested!” All teens or preteens at that point, the kids knew their interests better. “None of my kids want to be actors,” she said. “[They’re into] business, humanitarian affairs, things like that.”
