We weren't ready for Lara Croft and the Beast.
Character design is a delicate art, and for a company like Disney it can make or break not just a film, but the company's reputation too. Back in 1991, the filmmaker had a lot riding on Beauty and the Beast, an animated musical that would revitalise its output with the first Disney heroine who didn't dream of marrying a prince. But it seems that Belle could have looked very different from the character we know.
Based on an 18th century fairy tale by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Disney's Beauty and the Beast tells the story of Belle, a beautiful young woman with a taste for adventure who has to swap her freedom to save her father before finally falling for her jailer, the Beast. But apparently in the original concept art for the character, Belle was just a little too beautiful.
), Paige O'Hara, the voice of Belle, says her character originally looked very different. The concept created by animators including James Baxter and Mark Henn showed Belle as a glamorous woman"with fuller lips, a little bit darker eyebrows, and slightly smaller eyes" than Ariel from 1989's The Little Mermaid.
According to the book, the final version of Belle was inspired by Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn and Natalie Wood whose images hung on the wall on a board of celebrity photos while animators worked. O'Hara herself was also apparently an influence.
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