A few years ago I
posted a bunch of photos taken by Annie Leibovitz of celebrities as Disney characters as part of Disney's Year of a Million Dreams promotion, and recently a few more have surfaced. A couple of these I think are kind of inspired, and a couple I think are kind of a stretch, but I wanted to post them regardless. I think it's a really cool idea, and I'm glad to see they've released a few more.
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| Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens as Phillip and Aurora |
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| Alec Baldwin as the Magic Mirror and Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen |
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| Jeff Bridges as the Prince and Penelope Cruz as Belle |
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| Queen Latifah as Ursula |
The first one seems to have been released prior to the following three, and I kind of wish they had used some more established and long-lasting actors for it, but oh well. That kiss is so awkward, and she's not even sleeping. Alec Baldwin is kind of, I don't know, ridiculous or something, but Olivia Wilde is perfect as the Evil Queen. I like Penelope Cruz as Belle, but Jeff Bridges looks entirely too Photoshopped to match (nice work slimming down that belly). I was surprised and impressed to discover that for Queen Latifah's shoot, they actually built a squid apparatus for her to sit in for the photos, complete with all six legs--it seems obvious it would be completely digitally-created, but not so! (See
here -- scroll down to the behind-the-scenes photos.) Also, is it of note to anyone else that two of the features actors in this new set starred in
TRON: Legacy? Interesting. I guess that's what you call synergy.
