As Maleficent flees the castle, Ingrith's right-hand, Gerda, shoots Maleficent with an iron bullet. As punishment for her crimes, she is transformed into a goat by Maleficent until she can accept the peace between the two people. Maleficent is among the last creatures known as the Dark Fey, powerful fairies forced into hiding and nearly driven extinct by human oppression. When Ingrith learns that Aurora knows, she reveals that she bitterly resents the Moors' prosperity during a time when her kingdom suffered, and also blames them for her brother's death; she plots to eradicate all fairies and woodland beings using the iron weapons as well as a lethal crimson powder developed by Lickspittle, a de-winged pixie. Horrified and infuriated, Ingrith throws Aurora off the tower to kill her, prompting Maleficent to rescue her again. When Ingrith dismisses Maleficent's maternal bond with Aurora and claims that the marriage will make Ingrith her real mother, Maleficent reacts by angrily unleashing a burst of magical energy.
"We don't necessarily have to have sympathy, but if we have empathy and we can understand where people are coming from, then we can understand how to rectify certain circumstances with a bit more kind of alacrity and with sort of a fullness of heart," he said.It's a means of countering what the actor described as "a certain incredible tendency to retreat into our own specific camps where we only know these sort of ideas of how to attack or belittle those who don't agree with us. With Maleficent distracted, Ingrith fires her crossbow. Now played by "It really made me think deeply about certain ideas that I had, and things that I had grown up with, this idea of wicked witches and so forth, and how those kinds of tropes get into a mindset and how that influences your mindset as you become an adult,” said Ejiofor.It was those considerations over how characters evolve with nuance away from a good/evil binary that interested Ejiofor going into his work on the sequel “Maleficent: Mistress of Evil,” in theaters Oct. 18.“Young people do absorb all of this information in a really kind of interesting and kind of ferocious way, and it does have its part to play in having these conversations and moving these conversations in a positive and healthy and kind of engaged way,” said Ejiofor.Picking up years after its predecessor, “Mistress of Evil” finds the relationship strained between Jolie’s Maleficent and goddaughter Aurora, played by Elle Fanning, amidst Aurora’s imminent wedding to a charming prince.Michelle Pfeiffer is Queen Ingrith, Aurora’s mother-in-law-to-be, and Ejiofor appears as Conall, one of the leaders of the exiled group of winged creatures known as the dark fey and an advocate for peace between the species.Director Joachim Rønning’s film, with so many different entities at play with deeply held convictions of their own, uses its fantastical setting to grapple with quite timely questions of how a divided population can help to move forward together. John suddenly faints, and Ingrith accuses Maleficent of cursing him, which Maleficent denies to a disbelieving Aurora. Aurora discovers that Ingrith cursed John using Maleficent's old cursed spindle, as she hates all Moor fairy folk. Devastated, Aurora grieves for Maleficent, but after Aurora's tears fall on the ashes, Maleficent attains her phoenix stage. Chiwetel Ejiofor is reportedly circling a key role in Disney's live-action fairy tale movie sequel, Maleficent 2.. She awakens in a cavern where fairies like herself have been in hiding. Because Maleficent's magic is so powerful, Conall and Borra believe she is instrumental in ending the conflict with humans, either by peace or war. Maleficent destroys the spindle and its curse, awakening John from his slumber. When he first saw “Maleficent,” Chiewetel Ejiofor was struck. She promises to return for Aurora and Philip's future child's christening.
"I think that it is important right now, for all of us in the media and in the creative arts, to really look at that, because we are in complex times, we are in difficult times,” said Ejiofor. The Dark Fey launch an assault on Ulstead but the palace soldiers begin massacring them until Maleficent, channeling her Phoenix power, joins the battle. Ingrith alludes to Stefan's death as murder, and openly claims Maleficent killed two human fairy poachers last seen near the Moors.
After Aurora and Philip wed, Maleficent returns to the Moors with the other Dark Fey, teaching the young fairies to fly. Conall is a horned fairy like Maleficent. The Maleficent sequel first entered development back in 2015, but didn't really pick up speed until Angelina Jolie confirmed her return as the eponymous character late last summer.