Is there a possible musical in the future?
That would be nice!
I would love that! I would love to see this on the stage, and I would love to see what they can do, visually. What they would do with some of the effects we have. And what they would do with Olaf, having to create that.
I love the Lion King, how they made it their own. And yet it has the glory of the film. It would be a dream come true, obviously.
Do you have a favourite scene in the film, both of you?
I think it’s the ending, which we really don’t want to give away.
It’s the moment Anna makes the choice she does.
We worked so hard to get there. Watching it with an audience is very satisfying, that all that hard
work pays off.
I enjoyed one particular background detail when they’re chucked out of the ice palace and Sven’s got his tongue stuck on the bannister. But the moment goes past so quickly that people don’t notice anything.
We’ve been enjoying. We’ve had a lot of people going back to see it two or three times. They’re seeing, in particular with some of the surprises, how we subtly layer them in. and those little details that you miss the first time. It’s been fun to hear, ‘I saw that, I just caught that! Did you see who was in the background of that shot?’ Things like that.
You have an intriguing subversive twist, which I don't really want to give away. What was the intention behind that?
What we wanted to do is to look at love in a different way. I think you all hit that point when you’re a teenager when you fall in love for the first time, and it’s like, ‘I’d die for him!’ and you’ve
known him a week. But it’s honest, I think you go through that. But you don’t know each other, and you’re sort of projecting what you think each other are. And then reality hits. I think mature love, you talk about what you go through together.
Romantic love, that Hans represents in the movie, candy, roses, everything’s perfect. Then you’ve got real love, Kristof. The messy mountain man, the stinky kind of guy. But he’s the real deal.
He cannot flirt, he doesn’t have any charm, and yet he’s got the honest goods. Solid family, crazy, but wonderful and loving.
That’s Anna’s journey of learning the difference between the two.
And that’s on the way to the greatest understanding of love, which is the power of family, and of sacrifice. I think it’s a very organic part of her journey. And we wanted to be true to what we all go
through as we learn to be hopefully more sophisticated with love.
What were your favourite Disney movies growing up?
Easy, Pinocchio. Re-release of Pinocchio, I didn’t see it when it was originally released.
Yeah right!
I think the reason I fell in love with it so much, besides the characters, was the fact that you can go through this wonderful journey, and wonderful music, and scary stuff, and monsters. And yet
it all turns out in the end. You take that into your real life as a kid and realise, if Pinocchio can get through that, I can get through this too. Whatever tough thing you’re going through. I think that’s
why it means so much to me.
For me it was Cinderella. I think the first always hits you the deepest. A dream is a wish, it taught me to dream. That really was it, and look what’s happened.
My first was the Jungle Book, and it’s the same...
The Jungle Book, what a fun first.
I used to march around the living room, listening to the album...
I joke that my daughter - she’s ten now but when she was about eight she just looked like Mowgli with her long stringy legs. I’d be like, ‘Please do the dance!’