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Maleficent was always so elegant. She always was in control. And to play her was difficult. I worked on my voice a lot. She's bigger than me. She's on a different level of performance that I have never done.

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

I definitely had very strong male figures in my life, who, when I look back, clearly laid the foundations to who I am.

I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.

I wanted to be the greatest woman guitarist alive. I had fantasies about being a female Jimi Hendrix.

I create women characters by watching the female staff at my studio. Half the staff are women.

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

I was an altar boy and a choir member.