The household objects, they created those. How did you find the chemistry between you and …Īn LED light? I was amazed by how much of this was practical and real and luxurious and gorgeous. It is, I suppose, a little bit new to our version, driving home that sense of the abuse of privilege. She becomes aware that you can’t just stand by and let this spoiled brat be a spoiled brat forever, and I think that’s a big part of the message. Potts become a very, very important figure in his life. Who were the kind of people that raised this kid, and take some responsibility for the way that he is? His mother has died, his father is no use, so people like Mrs. When did you start working on fleshing out the character?īill definitely wanted to establish the human qualities to the characters around him.
The Prince shows a lot more regret in this version of the movie. We want to give an air of arrogance and have that. He doesn’t believe in love, doesn’t care for it, doesn’t care for any of these people around him and abuses his wealth and privilege. was just dancing with them all, and they all looked the same - they were wearing the same thing. There was no connection with any of these beautiful women. We worked very closely with Anthony van Laast, the choreographer, to tell that story and counterpoint it with the very beautiful waltz that you have at the center of the movie. We had to tell that story almost entirely through the medium of dance, which was interesting.
#THE RITUAL CREATURE MAQUETTE SERIES#
I would watch a TV series that’s just about the mean Prince and his fabulous makeup. And the pressure’s sort of off - but it’s also on - because it doesn’t have to sound like it did before, but it should sound good enough to sit alongside the music that’s already pretty great. To get a new song, it was really something. I didn’t think that the next time I would be would be on this kind of scale.
#THE RITUAL CREATURE MAQUETTE PROFESSIONAL#
For whatever reason, in my 20s, once I got into my professional career, I started doing Shakespeare, and the musical thing fell by the wayside a bit. I played the Emcee in “Cabaret” after I left school. We did “My Fair Lady” and some Gilbert and Sullivan. I grew up doing musicals in school and was a musical kid. What sort of singing experience did you bring to “Beauty and the Beast”? I didn’t know you were such a skilled singer. Or he hears a little riff in some tune that he wrote 40 years ago, 30 years ago, and wants to change it. got that kind of critical brain, where he hears his own work, which is pretty damn good, and he knows it can be better. “Stop! Stop! It’s all wrong!” We did a little pre-record, just so we had a guide track, and we went back in and changed a couple of notes for that. Pretty much, but not quite as dramatic as that. Then Alan Menken - obviously very, very involved - was tweaking as we went through pre-production and even actually during production, he wanted to change two notes in the chorus.Īlan Menken was on set changing the song while you were recording it? Bill said, “I think you’re singing a new song, but we don’t know what it sounds like yet.” I said, “OK, great.” I thought, “Oh, I guess I’m singing a new song,” which hadn’t even been written … when I took the role. But initially, that’s weirdly the thing that didn’t go through my head at all when they said, “You’re the Beast!” It didn’t even occur to me that it would end up being made the way that it was made. I was walking on different kinds of stilts, and we were changing those out all the while. Someone would shout, “Beast!” And they’d just wheel in the Beast, the real Beast or the fake Beast, I don’t know.Įmma had a rough idea of what I would look like, I had a rough idea of what I would look like, and we worked with various different techniques and technologies and things in the process of pre-production. The Beast’s head on a stand would get wheeled in at the end of every scene that we shot. There were some ideas, and there were definitely some sort of visual concepts, and they created this 3-D maquette of the Beast’s head so that they had this lighting reference. Did Disney show you pictures of what they had in mind?
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