We have finally added HQ V Magazine scans from the Summer 2014 Issue where Ella was photographed by Ben Weller to the image gallery …

“There’s a joke in my family that I’m going to make a career out of playing other people’s younger selves” jokes 17-year-old actress Ella Purnell. “I played the younger Keira Knightley), now I’m playing the younger Angelia. I mean, its a good track record, right?” The London native is making light of being cast by executive producer and lead actress Angelina Jolie in this season’s brooding Disney blockbuster Maleficent. Though the two have never met, Jolie hand picked the fashion-adoring actress during the film’s reshoot stage. Purnell, who had originally auditioned for the role of Princess Aurora (which eventually went to Elle Fanning), was not expecting the call, finding out about her appointment while recovering from a hospital stay for appendicitis. “I was sitting at home with greasy hair, with like operation stuff, half conscious, coming off annestetics, ” she says. Soon she was flying harnessed, with layers of bandaged covering her fresh scars. It was just another droll moment in a young, adventure-filled career that includes a narrowly missed bear attack in 2013’s Wildlike and throwing up on cue for Kick-Ass 2. “I don’t know if you’ve ever projectile vomited on someone’s face, but it’s really satisfying” she says.

In between directing a school play, working two jobs, and acting, the eldest daughter of four, like her Hollywood counterpart, spends time considering cinema through the lense of social progress. “I want to be a part of a movie that changes people’s conceptual framework and suddenly you see things in a different way,” she says. Perhaps that could be a good talking point when she finally meets her maker, at the Maleficent premiere. “I’ll meet Angelina and be like, “Hi, I;m you” That will be a good conversation starter.”