“Why does ‘true love’s kiss’ have to be romantic?”
he tells EW via Zoom, remembering his breakthrough.
“Can it be the love of the mother and her daughter or her child?
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That’s not a thing that I’ve ever seen really explored.
Taking it a step further, Shankman decided to use the 15 years sinceEnchantedfirst hit screens to his advantage.
“If she’s a New York teenager, she’s going to be difficult,” Shankman adds.
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“And how is Giselle handling that?”
There was also Giselle’s status as a stepmother to consider.
“In Giselle’s world, a stepmother is wicked,” says the director.
“So what does that look like?
Those were literally all of my entry points into the movie.”
“We’re not shy about our Easter eggs in the movie,” he laughs.
However, shooting during a global pandemic proved more complicated than imagined.
“I don’t even know how to properly thank them for everything that they did.”
“The pandemic really forced everybody into isolation, and we couldn’t really do anything together, ever.
I mean, it was: Go to work and go home.
And when I say go home, it’s also not having people over at your home.
So we were all incredibly separated the entire time.”
“What’s in the movie now was her original recording of that in the closet.”
Shankman recalls the recording session vividly.
“We were all literally trapped, and there was so much that felt wrong with the world.
I mean, it was really intense.
But it’s an incredible performance.”
Disenchantedis now streaming on Disney+.
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