Meet Kristen Bell! The Voice of Anna from Disney’s New Movie Frozen! #DisneyFrozenEvent

As you know I just got back from a wonderful trip to L.A. to attend the Red Carpet Premiere of Disney’s new Movie FROZEN, which releases in theaters everywhere on November 27th, 2013!  Kristen Bell was kind enough to meet with us at the El Capitan before the premiere.

You probably know Kristen Bell as her role as Veronica Mars.  What you may not know is that she got her start in 2001 on Broadway as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.  That being said, music is something she loves, so it is no surprise that she fit right into a Disney singing role as Anna in Frozen.  Another thing that surprised me, just like me and Movie Marshall…Kristen Bell escaped from Michigan!  GO Kristen!!!

I wanted her to be the, the, the driving force of the movie. And not just be the damsel that needs someone else, you know.

When she walked in she had a smile on her face and sat down like she was with friends.  She was totally laid back and super nice.

The first thing we wanted to know was how she got involved in the project…

I well I’ve always wanted to be in a Disney animated feature like since I was four years old or five years old. It was the first goal I had ever set for myself. But I- the reality is I, um, auditioned for Tangled and after my audition the casting director pulled me aside and she said, oh that was great and if we go another way, which I think she knew they were, um, but I want you to meet Chris Buck because he’s directing a project that’s a few years down the line called The Snow Queen, and I think you’d be right for it.

Singing in public frightens me and a lot of others. We wanted to know if the musical aspect of it (the singing) scared her…

No, that was what incited me to want to do it, because I studied music in college and I, I trained operatically when I was a little girl, um, and I love musical theater so, so, so much. So, um, I’d done a couple Broadway musicals and I try to keep music as relevant as possible and I, and it really just makes- it puts me in a mental state of happiness like nothing else, I think. Really like nothing else. Um, maybe now other than the kid.

Kristen went on to say…

I was so eager to get my hands on being a part of a musical again.

So what did Kristen Bell do to prepare for this role?

Uh, I didn’t at all. I came in with so many ideas, because this was not how the movie was written at all. The, um, the inception of the script was much different than this script we have now. And it went through quite a few rewrites and finding everything, ’cause originally they were mother and daughter. And then they were sisters. And then they weren’t. And then they had Elsa and Anna. And then I think they just tried to figure out what worked the best for telling the themes of the story while using the Christian Andersen, um, fairy tale as an outline.

Kristen had her own ideas about the Anna character…

And I, I knew exactly what I wanted to do going in, I was like, I don’t want her to have good posture, I don’t want her to like have dreamed of holding a sword her whole life. I didn’t want her to be one or the other of the archetypes that I was used to seeing. Um, and I, I just wanted her to be who I wanted to see on screen when I was little, which is someone who talks too much and too fast. And [LAUGHTER] puts her foot in her mouth and is goofy, but really kind of likes people and being social and, um, being positive.

After watching the movie, what she told us about her character totally came together. Anna is a different kind of princess, that you and your children will connect with!

‘Cause in my eyes, the beauty of Anna is that she’s so imperfect and so embraces all of her imperfections.

When asked what her favorite scene in the movie was, Kristen said…

…it’s not actually my scene, it’s Elsa has a scene called, uh, she has a song called Let It Go which is done vibrato…It’s the moment when she loves herself, and I just everytime I watch it, I do that, because I just think it’s so beautiful.

Here is the song being sung by Demi Lovato.

Before leaving us, Kristen had a gift for us all.  A friend of hers named Ryan Devlin started a company called This Bar Saves Lives.  Every bar that’s purchased it donates a life saving nutritional packet to a child in need.  They have plans for a non nut version for those who have nut allergies.

Every year, severe acute malnutrition claims the lives of 2.6 million children. That’s one child every 12 seconds.

Be sure to connect with This Bar Saves Lives on Twitter!

No compensation was received for this post and all opinions are my own.  All photos are my own unless otherwise credited.  My travel accommodations for this trip were covered by Disney.

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Brandy is the wife to a carpenter/musician and the mother of 3 amazingly awesome homeschool/unschooled girls. Brandy is a Photographer as well as a Coach for the Weebellion as part of Rolling Rebellion Jr. Roller Derby. Brandy is passionate about many things and suffers from a very painful and degenerative neurological disease called CRPS/RSD.

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