Anna was too much a princess and left me cold, says Frozen star

KRISTEN BELL, the star of Frozen, has revealed she disliked the original script and had to persuade screenwriters to make her character more adventurous than a “traditional Disney princess”.

The American actress said she urged them to make Anna, one of the lead characters in the 2013 hit film, “less entitled” and “more like me, awkward”.

In the animated musical fantasy, which took £1billion worldwide, the princess and her older sister Elsa save a kingdom from an icy spell that keeps it trapped in perpetual winter.

After widespread praise for her performance, Bell, 39, has let slip she “wasn’t excited” about the role until the story was revised.

Recalling when she landed it, she told Scottish magazine No 1: “I wasn’t sure about the movie at first. The character of Anna was initially very different and I wasn’t excited to play her.

“We had a completely different script when I signed on, Anna was very princess-y, very entitled and she and Elsa were enemies. In fact, I initially rejected the perfection of Anna because she wasn’t goofy enough. Eventually the filmmakers and I had a few conversations about how we could reroute it.

“Once we got to the dynamic of making Elsa misunderstood and having Anna refuse to believe her sister did anything wrong, it finally felt right.”

She added: “I’ve always wanted to be a Disney princess because I’m an American girl, and that’s what you’re supposed to want. However, I never saw Anna as a Disney heroine. I saw her more like me, awkward. She speaks too fast and says things before she thinks or trips up.

“She’s also vivacious, eternally optimistic and adventurous. So, I never saw her as a traditional Disney princess. I think the story is anything but traditional actually, it’s like you don’t just want the prince, you want a whole new world and more than true love.”

Bell, who also starred in Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek, voices Anna again in the hugely-anticipated sequel Frozen 2.

It was widely released on Friday and is reportedly on course to earn more than £78million at the box office this weekend.