Though Kristen Bell‘s children may not love the Frozen franchise, the actress said there’s one thing they can at least appreciate about the films.
In a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, Bell, who voices Anna in the 2013 animated Disney film and its 2019 sequel, was asked if her kids feel differently about the movies now that they’re older, whereas they previously weren’t interested in them.
“They certainly appreciate it in the fact that they can go to college because of it, but they’re not part of the Frozen phenomenon,” she responded. “Because kids are meant to make you feel grounded and they are meant to reject things their parents are involved in. Even if they secretly liked it, they would never tell me.”
The Nobody Wants This star shares two daughters with her husband Dax Shepard.
Elsewhere in the interview, Bell said she had “always dreamed” of getting the chance to work on a Disney animated film, so when she got the call to voice Anna, she was just “thrilled.” But she also knew at that moment she had an opportunity to “create a character that I really needed to see when I was 11 years old.”
“I said all the Disney princesses stand like this, their hands are always perfect, their posture is perfect,” Bell recalled. “I want her [Anna] to be the opposite. I want her to wake up with drool in her mouth and I want her to snore and I want her to talk too much and too fast and wear her heart on her sleeve and trip over things, like the real quirk for a girl who is lovable, but not as put together.”
The Veronica Mars alum said she was thankful they let her run with her ideas for the character.
“This whole experience was really collaborative and some of those things they wrote in and others they didn’t and they let me kind of take the reins,” she added. “I still get such a sense of joy when I see it because I’m very proud.”
Frozen 3 and Frozen 4 are currently in the works at Disney, with Bell expected to reprise her voice role.
