Taye Diggs Says Son Walker Was Over Mom Idina Menzel's ‘Frozen’ Movie ‘Pretty Quickly’

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00:00Tay, what was your favorite Disney movie growing up?

00:03My favorite Disney movie, well, Pocahontas was big for me

00:09just because, you know, and The Princess and the Frog.

00:16That, right?

00:17Yep.

00:18It's been a while.

00:19Yeah, those two.

00:20Yeah.

00:21What about you?

00:23My favorites were Frozen.

00:25I used to watch Frozen on repeat, repeat, every day.

00:30I had Frozen heels.

00:31I had Frozen microphones, everything.

00:34But also, it's funny because Ariel

00:36was my second favorite Disney princess of all time.

00:39I loved her beautiful hair.

00:43I loved the mermaid aspect, her beautiful tail,

00:48and all that she represented.

00:50It was really a full circle moment

00:53coming into this character.

00:54You know Tay has an into Frozen, right?

00:56There you go.

00:59You can probably see it on V-Doc.

01:00I do.

01:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:03Did your son have a favorite Disney movie growing up?

01:05We saw them all.

01:09Obviously, well, not obviously.

01:11Frozen, he got sick of it pretty quickly.

01:13Did he?

01:13You can imagine.

01:15One of the big, because we still watch him.

01:17We still watch him.

01:18Yeah.

01:19He now, he just now is realizing how

01:23a lot of the brilliance of Disney,

01:25they'll make storylines accessible to the children

01:28and the adults alike so that adults don't get sick.

01:31I'm so excited for this.

01:33I was saying before, my kids have

01:34been seeing the commercials for Ariel

01:36like nonstop when they're watching

01:38Disney in the morning.

01:39So we're very excited.

01:40So tell me how we are kind of reimagining Ariel.

01:43I know we're kind of going back to the beginning.

01:45So tell me all about it.

01:47I really love this new type of version of Ariel

01:53because we get to see Ariel younger than we ever

01:55seen her before.

01:56We get to see a deeper dive into her life,

01:58who she was friends with, how she makes friends.

02:01And yeah, all together, we get to see a deeper

02:04dive into her daily life.

02:07And it's not this event that happens

02:08like we see in feature films.

02:09It's really how she lives and who she was.

02:14I feel like that's a really, really great type

02:16of new vision into her life.

02:19Definitely.

02:20Tay, how did you approach King Triton?

02:23With excitement.

02:25As you can imagine, being a part of the Disney family

02:29for both of us has been a wonderful experience.

02:33But we're making history.

02:34It's a completely multi-ethnic cast.

02:38We've got brand new music with a very

02:40strong Caribbean background.

02:42And like a little mama said, these

02:45are very understandable and palatable kind of situations

02:52this mother-daughter, excuse me,

02:54father-daughter relationship.

02:56People can actually kind of use them

02:59as opposed to the larger-than-life situations

03:02you find on the big screen.

03:03Definitely.

03:04These are characters that people have grown up with,

03:07that people still go back and revisit time and time again.

03:10Do you feel pressure at all taking on these roles that

03:13are such iconic characters?

03:14Or are you excited to kind of put your own twist on it?

03:17I feel like it's a little bit of both.

03:18There's a pressure coming into this incredible role,

03:22all these amazing people have played Ariel.

03:25And it's kind of a pressure kind of being up there

03:29and having to take on that character as well.

03:32But I feel like, as you said, I can also put my own type

03:35of spin on it because Ariel, like I said,

03:38has never been shown this young.

03:40And it's kind of like I like to think of it

03:42as a brand new look into Ariel.

03:48And I get to put my own type of spin on things

03:53while keeping it the iconic Ariel that we all know and love.

03:56Definitely.

03:57Tell you how that is.

03:58Absolutely, yeah.

03:59Disney very rarely, you know, they know how to do it.

04:01So they changed it just enough where we could

04:04feel like we're doing our thing.

04:06But they're obviously not going to mess

04:08with something that's been doing so well for so many years.

04:12Yeah, I think we're both just really,

04:14really honored and excited.

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