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In an exclusive interrogation with E! News, Oscar and Grammy victor H.E.R. described her "scary" translation into Belle for ABC's upcoming Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration special.
H.E.R. Says Playing Belle successful Beauty and the Beast Was the "Most Fun"
There's a marque caller Belle of the ball.
In the upcoming primetime special Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration, airing Dec. 15 connected ABC, five-time Grammy victor H.E.R. transforms into the legendary relation of Belle, voiced by Paige O'Hara successful the archetypal 1991 movie and played by Emma Watson successful the 2017 live-action adaptation.
Stepping into the Belle's iconic yellowish formal isn't thing H.E.R. (real sanction Gabriella Wilson) took lightly—and it wasn't easy.
"It's been a small scary," she admitted to E! News Dec. 13. "Not scary successful a mode that I'm tense astir radical seeing me, but much truthful conscionable truly being susceptible successful a antithetic mode and allowing radical in. I've kept it astir the euphony for truthful long. But present radical get to spot Gabriella arsenic the actress, arsenic a producer, arsenic the idiosyncratic much than the music."
H.E.R.—who stars alongside Josh Groban arsenic the Beast, Martin Short as Lumière, Shania Twain arsenic Mrs. Potts and Rita Moreno arsenic the narrator—ultimately recovered the full process to beryllium "probably the astir amusive happening I've ever done successful my career."
"It's fixed maine a antithetic confidence," she continued. "I'm walking a small spot differently. I'm carrying myself a small spot much princess-like. It's truly that I'm much maine and much comfy successful maine and I truly admit this full acquisition for that."
H.E.R.'s embodiment of Belle is made adjacent much meaningful arsenic an histrion of color—which is thing the 25-year-old was keenly alert of.
"I didn't deliberation it wasn't possible, and that's the thing," she explained. "If you don't spot it happening with idiosyncratic that looks similar you, there's nary connection. You don't deliberation it could happen. So to beryllium here, I'm ace amazed and I'm ace grateful and I worked truly hard."
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Watch the fruits of H.E.R.'s labour erstwhile Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration—which combines animated and live-action elements, according to the network, "along with caller never-before-seen philharmonic performances, brand-new sets and breathtaking costumes inspired by the classical story"—airs Dec. 15 astatine 8 p.m. connected ABC.
It volition beryllium disposable to watercourse adjacent time connected Disney+.
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