If you’re as obsessed with Disney’s The Princess and the Frog as JJJ is (see here and here for the proof), you know that “Almost There” is the stand out song from the film.
Anika Noni Rose, who voiced the beautiful Tiana, has opened up about the importance track and how she identified with the song.
“The song, to me, really was all of what the movie was and all of what my life was,” she shared with LA Times.
“I felt like I knew this girl. I grew up in a small town without anybody who did the thing that I wanted to do. Where a guidance counselor told me maybe I should learn a trade. I understood being somewhere where nobody else understood what it was I wanted to do,” Anika continued, revealing her real connection with Tiana.
Anika continued, stressing how the song still makes her feel and how it can inspire every little kid everywhere.
“There are two ways to take that song,” she says. “You can be almost there and be sad about it. Or you can be almost there and find the joy in the journey, and the joy in the steps that you have taken, and the joy in how far you have gone.”
“Sometimes you’re not quite touching it yet, but the fact that you have gotten yourself until the point that you are almost there means that you only have a couple more steps to go. Those steps may be be years or days or minutes and you never know. But there is a joy to knowing you’re going to do it.”
Mandy Moore admitted that she only got into singing because of Jodi Benson, aka Ariel from The Little Mermaid!
The Tangled star, who voices Rapunzel, told ET about her connection to the red-haired Disney Princess.
“I met Jodi Benson today, Ariel. She is the sole reason that I started singing,” she shared. “I didn’t manage to tell her that, because I didn’t want to creep her out too much [but] I will. Before the day is done, I’m going to lay that on her.”
After the interview Mandy made sure to get a pic with Jodi, who discovered this fact from ET.
“She didn’t tell me [that I inspired her to sing],” she said. “That makes my selfie even more special. That’s really neat.”
In the clip presented at the D23 expo, Ralph and Vanellope find themselves transported to the most magical place on the internet: OhMyDisney.com, where Vanellope decides to sneak into a dressing room full of Disney Princesses – to mess with them.
When the Princesses discover the tiny intruder, they prepare to attack. Mulan pulls out her sword, Merida grabs her bow, and Cinderella turns her glass slipper into a shiv. In order to save her skin, Vanellope tells the Princesses that she, too, is a Princess — which she is!
After the intrusion, the Princesses defend themselves even more, kicking aside all those princess tropes.
The Wreck-It Ralph sequel opens November 21st, 2018.
The singer takes us through all the best Disney Villains — with help from singer Whitney Avalon — in the cool vid.
Everyone from The Little Mermaid‘s Ursula, to The Hunchback of Notre Dame‘s Frollo is there — even Mother Gothel (from Tangled) and Dr. Facilier (from The Princess and the Frog).
Check out the full version below and let us know which one is your fave!
Including Shadowhunters‘ Emeraude Toubia, who has always wanted to play Princess Jasmine.
“I would want to play Jasmine,” she told Latina magazine earlier this year of her dream Disney princess. “She’s Arabic and I’m Arabic, so that would be a dream come true.”
She continued about creating her own princess to play, “I would love to create a Disney Princess whose figure is like what we all look like – she wouldn’t have this extremely tiny waist,” Emeraude says.
“I just want her to look how we do and have a really cool, honest personality. In general, I feel like Disney has done a great job with all these different princess movies and the stories behind them.”
TELL JJJ: Do you think Emeraude would make the perfect Princess Jasmine?
Beauty and the Beast had the most amazing opening at the box office, earning over $170 million from 4,210 theaters over the weekend.
Belle is one of the favorite Disney princesses, and rightfully so. She joins Alice(in Wonderland), Cinderella and Aurora (in Maleficent) in getting their own live action movies, along with Mulan to follow.
However, JJJ is here to make an argument for Tiana, from The Princess and the Frog, to be the next in line for her own live action movie.
Click inside to see just why Tiana should get her own movie…
