Meet All The Disney Princesses From ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ And See What They Have To Say About Their Iconic Characters

Kristen Bell is Anna

Meeting with the press at the time of Frozen‘s release, Kristen said regarding her character of Anna, “Oh, I was in glee. I have always wanted to be part of a Disney animated feature. I grew up watching all of the old Disney musicals, and was especially obsessed with The Little Mermaid and Aladdin. It had always been my dream as a little girl to be a Disney Princess, like it is everybody’s. But I wanted it to be a specific type of Disney Princess. She had to be one that I wanted to see, who was way more awkward than the normal Princesses. They really allowed me to mold her to what I wanted, which was lucky, I guess.

“My whole goal was that I didn’t want to play someone with good posture, which is all you see. Growing up I was awkward, and I talked to myself a lot, and I ate dinner next to the dog. I was goofy and klutzy and often too energetic. I often spoke before I thought, and I wanted to see someone like that. They allowed me to add all these unique attributes to her.”

Jodi Benson is Ariel

In an interview with StageBuddy.com, Jodi expressed her enthusiasm for The Little Mermaid and voicing Ariel, “I grew up in the Cinderella era but never in a million years did it cross my mind to be a Disney Princess, work with Disney, or become a voice actress. My focus as a child was the stage and Broadway, making a living, not being a waitress, living in New York. It’s beautiful to see God take something that never came into my consciousness and turn it into my livelihood. It’s such a wonderful gift, it was all a wonderful surprise. The Little Mermaid was never part of my plan, that’s why I love my job.

“A lot of Ariel I can relate to,” she adds, “because as a child growing up, you have to make those connections with your characters in order to make them authentic, real and vulnerable. Ariel is tenacious to a fault, I see that as a positive and in our world today with everything going on, it’s easy to give up hope, your dreams. Life is hard, it’s not always easy, there are some really hard times for all of us to walk through and that tenacity is so important. Even today at my age, I feel tired to fight certain battles, and that tenacity is something I learned from Ariel, to press forward, to work through the hard stuff and not give up.”

Kate Higgins is Aurora

Kate is a voice-over actress who has had an extensive career in Anime productions, including Digmon, Boruto, and Sailor Moon. In Ralph Breaks the Internet, she is the sleepy Princess Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty).

Paige O’Hara is Belle

Paige, who reprises the role of Belle from Beauty and the Beast, feels that this new film is “hysterical and historical. It’s never happened before, putting the Princesses together. When they first called me to say they were going to be doing this, I thought they were kidding. But, lo and behold, we’re here and it’s really funny. The audience is going to love it, and they actually made our ‘parcel’ a little bit bigger once they saw the response, so it’s very cool. Linda Larkin and a few of us have a little surprise at the end of this, so we’re going to kind of be in the casual Princess mode, but it’s great. I love that they can kind of poke fun at themselves and still be regal.”

Jennifer Hale is Cinderella

“It’s turning the Princesses on their heads,” says Jennifer. “Certainly it’s turning Cinderella on her head in a way you’ve never seen, which is so much fun. I don’t think a scene like this has ever happened before, and I’m really looking forward to seeing this movie with an audience of kids and people who aren’t familiar with it, who haven’t been working behind the scenes like we have, just to get a real take on it, which will be amazing.”

Idina Menzel is Elsa

Idina (who sometimes apologies to parents for their kids loving “Let It Go” so much), explains the power of Frozen as follows: “It’s not just about the man swooping in. But it’s more than just female empowerment; it’s about family and sisters. It shows that true love doesn’t have to be romantic love between a man and a woman. It’s a bond and family, whatever that means. That’s what I love; I think it’s larger than any story that Disney’s told in the past. With the female empowerment, what I take from the character for myself, and where Elsa and I meet, is wrestling with being a strong, powerful, extraordinary woman. Also, we worry about having to hide that, in fear of hurting other people. I understand and relate to that. I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That’s something we need to support each other with.

“I thought about it a lot when I was younger, more than I do now. Now I celebrate who I am, and what I’m doing. When I was younger, I never wanted my friends to think I was showing off. That’s why I think it’s great for kids to see this movie. Everything’s always about being homogenized, and following in a group. The people who stand out always have the most problems. So the more we have those messages out here about the people who are struggling with something, or are different or gifted, as well as the opportunity to give them a platform to celebrate that, is the stronger way to go.”

Linda Larkin is Jasmine

“It’s so brilliant because it’s limitless,” says Linda, who has voiced pretty much every version of Jasmine since the original film, including the animated series, video games, Disney on Ice, and more. “The possibilities of this story are endless. I remember reading the Aladdin script and feeling immediately connected to her. And the first scene I read was in the marketplace. And she’s talking to the camel, and she meets Aladdin. She then sees a child and offers him an apple. It was just this rich and vibrant scene and she was just moving from one thing to another and really experiencing the world for the first time. And I was sort of at that age in my life where I was just starting to experience the world for the first time through my own eyes. I really connected to her on that level. A lot of times people ask me if I think that Jasmine was a good role model. I’ve heard the criticism that all Jasmine wanted to do was get married. Like that was her big goal in life. That’s actually not true. Jasmine was fighting against an injustice, with the marriage law of her society in her time. And she says in the movie to her father, ‘The law is wrong!’ And she risks her safety and her comfort and she goes out and she finds a way to change that law. That’s a really powerful message for young girls and boys. And I’m really proud to be associated with a Princess who got to deliver that message.”

Irene Bedard is Pocahontas

While speaking to DVDizzy.com, actress Irene said of playing Pocahontas, “Of all the Disney female characters, Pocahontas is the strongest. She’s not waiting for her Prince. She actually saves John Smith from death. She is independent and strong-willed. She has a sense of self but still takes advice from her elders on what she should do. I think my favorite part is when she is told to listen with her heart and not to follow only her head… [Also] I remember giving hugs to everyone on the last day of recording. We had so much fun together. I really enjoy the process of animation; it’s all about imagination. I would ask myself things like, ‘What is it like talking to a tree?’ and ‘What tone of voice would I use to talk to a raccoon or hummingbird?’ Even how far the hummingbird would be from me was important. Was it right by my head or farther away? I loved working at the Disney animations studios. It was so wonderful to be told to ‘take a left at Goofy and a right at Mickey.'”

Kelly Macdonald is Merida

Kelly played Merida for the first time in Pixar’s Brave, and given Disney’s ownership of Pixar, it absolutely makes her a Princess. “I didn’t really think about that at the time,” she admitted to Den of Geek. “The Disney-Pixar thing is sort of a new idea to me — I knew about them separately, but I’m not even sure when that merge happened, so it’s only recently that I’ve been aware of the Disney side of things. There’s a Merida in Disneyland now, and you can get all the stuff from the Disney shops.”

In regards to “finding” the character, she added, “I was a teenage girl once, so I had that attitude of thinking I knew it all, but I was never as feisty and as outdoors-y as Merida. I’m kind of curious about archery now, I’d like to give that a go. But Merida being a teenager, I had to kind of get that voice back, and that happened pretty easily. With her dialogue and her attitude, she’s sort of constantly fighting things, and that’s very teenage, so I felt very comfortable.”

Auli’i Cravalho is Moana

Auli’i, who reprises the voice of Moana, definitely comes across as a fan of this whole thing: “I grew up with these incredible voices and their songs, with each of them having such a beautiful and specific message to me, like Belle with self-sacrifices and Ariel reaching those dreams no matter what. Gosh, to be working with them on this film, and to have such a great time… a great crowd reaction is all I can hope for. The Princesses get to kind of take a breath, relax with Vanellope and just kind of tease each other with a really great banter.”

Ming-Na Wen is Mulan

There’s a genuine appeal about this film for Ming-Na, who reprises the role of Mulan. “I grew up as an arcade girl,” she points out. “I would hang out at the mall with my boyfriend and we would spend countless quarters, so I knew all those characters and now I think this movie kind of brings it up a notch for the new generation of kids who are always on the Internet and know about it.

“At the same time,” she adds, “it’s just a wonderful way to modernize the Princesses and humanize them by making them girlfriends with each other, and enjoying girl empowerment. It’s all the right themes and Disney presents it so beautifully.”

Mandy Moore is Rapunzel

Laughs This is Us and Tangled star Mandy, “Anytime there’s an invitation to revisit Rapunzel and step back into her bare feet — she doesn’t wear shoes — I’m thrilled. Honestly, it’s one of the greatest joys of my life having played Rapunzel and been entangled. And the idea that all of us Princesses would be together in one scene was something that blew my mind. I never thought it would be a possibility or that I would be revisiting this character in this capacity, so to be with all of these ladies and the spirit of sisterhood was remarkable.

“We took the idea of the Princesses,” Mandy continues, “and who you think they are and allowed them to reveal their true selves. I guess they’ve never been given the opportunity to kind of exhale and do casual instead of the dresses and the costumes that we know them to be in. It was like a relief to them and for the audience, too. I mean, there’s nothing like seeing a film like this with an audience; the experience of sitting in the theater and hearing people laugh and gasp and be surprised and fall for all of the moments. It’s just the best part of the experience. And then we have the new part of the Princess gang with Vanellope, who fits right in. She adds a little bit of spunk and modernity. She brings this modern kind of element to the Princess gang and is a welcome addition.”

Pamela Ribon is Snow White

Not only does Pamela voice Snow White in Ralph Breaks the Internet, but she served as the film’s screenwriter as well. At the film’s premiere, she proclaimed, “It feels like we’re waking up from a dream that’s lasted three years as we made the movie. Everybody’s just as excited as we have been, which is the best part. This is like Christmas morning and the first day of school shoved together.”

We only see Pamela briefly as Snow in the film’s trailer, but she definitely seems to nail it.

Anika Noni Rose is Tiana

The character of Tiana has the distinction of being Disney’s first Princess of color, having appeared in the film The Princess and the Frog. The import of that didn’t register with real-life alter ego, Anika, right away. “It really took me a while to realize, for it to hit me what a huge, huge deal it was,” she related to OhMyDisney.com. “I mean, I knew, in a literal sense, but for it to kick into my body… I think that one of my favorite memories was when they showed her to me in color for the first time. It was a surprise… They played this footage for me, and I just started to cry. So moving to me, and so amazing. I had no idea that she would look so much like me. It was such a great, great honor.”

Sarah Silverman is Vanellope

Sarah, naturally, is returning from the first film, reprising the role of Vanellope. Of the sequel she enthuses, “I’m so excited. It’s so fun and we have so much fun together. Johnny and I are happy to get to work together, gab and goof around. We also recorded our dialogue in the booth at the same time, so we’ve been spending a lot of time together. And the film has the great expanse that’s the Internet, which makes it very visual. In a lot of ways it reflects life the way we know it today in the way that the Internet does — the good, the bad, and the ugly.”