Chris Pine wasn’t thrilled about selecting up the microphone for his new Disney film musical Want.
“Every time you’re like, ‘They f—ing hired me?! Oh my God, no,’” Pine, 43, informed Leisure Weekly in a Monday, November 20, interview concerning his singing capability. “It’s not my forte, it’s not my background.”
Though he was fairly anxious, Pine beloved the type of the songs written by Julia Michaels and Benjamin Rice for the film, which celebrates 100 years of storytelling at Disney.
“There’s a dominant melody line and [Michaels] deliberately plays against it,” he defined to the outlet. “I think that’s how you really hear the story of the lyric. It is [Stephen] Sondheim-esque because his work is very similarly atonal. It’s always plot-driven and emotionally driven as opposed to just something in a pretty song. I loved the challenge of it, but I was definitely a nervous singer, for sure.”
This isn’t the primary time Pine has proven off his vocals. In 2014, he carried out within the film musical Into the Woods — which precipitated him simply as a lot stress.
“Stephen Sondheim came into the recording session with the full orchestra. As I was coming out, he said, ‘What was that note in the second stanza?’ I said, ‘Oh! B.’ He’s like, ‘It’s an A-flat,’” the Star Trek actor shared. “The point being is that he heard me screw up. So, that’s a long way of saying, yes, I was terrified.”
Disney’s Want, which hits theaters on November 22, stars Ariana DeBose as Asha, a 17-year-old woman who makes a want to the celebs after believing there may be darkness within the magical kingdom of Rosas, a land led by the sorcerer Magnifico (Pine).
The movie — which was introduced in the course of the D23 Expo — is supposed to honor Disney Animation Studios 100-year anniversary.
“‘When You Wish Upon A Star’ was one of the first songs I knew,” Want’s screenwriter Jennifer Lee informed Leisure Weekly in October. “I don’t even know when I first heard it. It just was always there. You can say a wish is passive because you wish and hope this happens, but really it’s a declaration of what’s driving your heart, and the pursuit of that is important. How can we deconstruct that in a more sophisticated way, but also have a lot of celebration of the 100th?”
Chris Buck, the codirector of Want alongside Fawn Veerasunthorn, revealed that in early check screenings, it was difficult for “people to understand the power of a wish” or how “emotional” it may very well be.
“That was pivotal. We knew we had to keep working to make it feel powerful,” Buck, 65, defined to the outlet.