“'Tangled' reminds Moore of childhood” |
| 'Tangled' reminds Moore of childhood Posted: 03 Dec 2010 09:12 PM PST Someday soon, the songs "When Will My Life Begin" and "I See the Light" may be looping through the heads and DVD players of girls (and boys). It will be a high honor that Mandy Moore, who provides the speaking and singing voice of Rapunzel in "Tangled," will understand. Perfectly.
Disney/AP A scene from 'Tangled.' "I remember seeing 'The Little Mermaid' in theaters and then obsessively, compulsively watching the video when it came out. And the same with 'Aladdin' and 'Beau- ty and the Beast,' " she said. "Those were huge, seminal points in my childhood. So, now this idea that I'm somehow a part of this same family tree, it's the greatest thing ever." "Tangled" is Disney's 50th animated feature. "As soon as I heard that Disney was making another animated film and it was the story of Rapunzel, I'm like, 'I'm in.' There's music? 'Oh, I'm totally in,' " Moore said. Moore, 26, had to audition for the role and chose not a tune linked to Ariel or Belle but Joni Mitchell's "Help Me" to supplement the lines she had to read. The new film was conceived as "a melding between the old-school, classic, quintessential great storytelling that we know and love from Disney, coupled with the new technology." The princess locked in a tower has 70 feet of golden, sometimes glowing hair, but she's more than just the young lady with the locks. "I really appreciated and admired her approach toward life and her overall attitude -- she wasn't a victim, she wasn't judgmental, she wasn't naive. She was very open-minded, she was very determined," Moore said. "... I thought she was very fearless, too, in the face of the unknown. All she'd ever been told about the outside world was that it was filled with scary people who were going to take advantage of her and cut her hair off, but none of that really deterred her from wanting to realize this dream that she had." Moore, whose credits include a half-dozen albums, movies and guest appearances on TV shows, saw echoes of herself in Rapunzel. "I recognize some of the physicality, some of the gestures, because obviously they do record you sometimes when you're in the booth. So that was sort of jarring to see the movie for the first time and go, 'Oh, wow, there I am.' "It doesn't look anything like me, but I definitely could see myself every now and then because I'm quite animated -- as a person, anyway, so hopefully they had lots to draw from," Moore said. This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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