Well, It's Always Nice to Check Out These Enchanted Secrets

1. The archetypal publication of Enchanted, written by Bill Kelly, was bought by Disney's Touchstone Pictures and Sonnenfeld/Josephson Productions successful 1997.

2. However, the archetypal mentation was "a overmuch darker movie," according to manager Kevin Lima, who archetypal work the publication successful 2001.

"It conscionable seemed cleanable and I begged for 5 years for the movie," Lima told The Hollywood Reporter successful 2007. "It had been successful development, I guess, for 7 years earlier it got greenish lit with me. I deliberation they were conscionable trying to find the tone. How bash you make a movie that's self-referential? How bash you make a movie astatine Disney astir Disney?"

3. While the workplace initially struggled to onslaught the close equilibrium of sincerity and satire, Lima pointed to the Shrek franchise arsenic a mode to hone the tone.

"I had the thought to bash it arsenic much of a loving homage," helium told THR. "I said, 'You know, there's a antithetic mode to bash this.' I spent 5 months trying to person them of that until yet they realized it was an avenue they were consenting to spell down and explore."

4. In earlier iterations, Reese Witherspoon and Kate Hudson were considered to star.

5. A whopping 300 actresses auditioned for the relation of Giselle, but Lima instantly knew Amy Adams was his princess erstwhile she walked successful the room.

"She looked similar a Disney character," the filmmaker told THR. "She's got those beauteous circular eyes and just skin. Boy, I conscionable crossed my fingers and hoped that she understood however to play the character."

Spoiler: Adams wholly nailed it, with Lima calling her a "revelation."

What helium was looking for "was idiosyncratic who didn't justice the character's naivete, an histrion who could vanish into the relation and ne'er wink astatine the relation portion they were playing it and ever deliberation that what they were doing was ridiculous," helium explained. "Truly, she was the lone pistillate who came into the country with that quality. I knew successful that infinitesimal that I could marque this movie."

6. But Lima's aboriginal conversations with the workplace "had to bash with the aesthetic of casting a prima verses an unknown, or, successful Amy's case, a comparative newcomer," Lima shared successful an intervew with MovieMaker, adding helium was pushing to crown a little established actress. While Disney primitively wanted a large star, Adams managed to enchant them.

"The discussions with the workplace aft that audition were rather easy," Lima revealed. "Amy's audition portion was each that was needed to person them that Giselle had arrived."

7. To make Giselle, Lima pulled inspiration from respective aboriginal Disney princesses, including "about 80 percent Snow White, with immoderate traits borrowed from Cinderella and Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty," the manager told USA Today, "although her spunkiness comes from Ariel from The Little Mermaid."

8. While Patrick Dempsey thought the movie "was a large thought and truthful unique" erstwhile helium signed connected to play Giselle's jaded emotion involvement Robert, the Grey's Anatomy alum admitted helium "wasn't truly comfortable" erstwhile they began filming.

"It was precise hard to do," Dempsey told Cinema.com. "There are each these antithetic styles going connected astatine erstwhile and it was highly challenging. There were times erstwhile I wanted to enactment the scrubs backmost connected and spell backmost to Grey's, due to the fact that I kept worrying that I was excessively superior oregon not comic enough. I felt profoundly insecure passim the full people of the film."

9. One unanticipated occupation Lima ran into aft casting McDreamy? The actor's admirers.

"He can't spell anyplace successful nationalist without his fans conscionable going crazy," Lima told THR. "There were a multitude of times wherever we had to inquire them, ‘Please, delight beryllium quiet. We're trying to sprout a movie here' due to the fact that they were yelling, 'We emotion you, Dr. McDreamy' the full time! He was truly large astir it due to the fact that helium would spell up and speech to them and springiness them a infinitesimal of his clip and say, 'I'll travel backmost erstwhile I get a break.' So we had to truly enactment the crowd."

10. Another relation Lima took on? Providing the dependable for Pip the Chipmunk. 

11. While helium initially was brought successful to audition for Robert, James Marsden sought the relation of Prince Edward instead, with the histrion telling the U.K.'s Orange the aloof quality was "more fun."

12. Even earlier Lima signed connected to direct, Susan Sarandon was attracted to the relation of Queen Narcissa.

"There was a constituent successful clip erstwhile the movie was moving guardant and she had work it and she was precise funny successful playing the role," Lima told Ain't It Cool. "So she had already had excitement astir it and they didn't propulsion Susan connected me."

All of Sarandon's scenes were filmed successful a two-week period.

13. Giselle's wedding formal weighed a whopping 45 pounds. 

14. The Troll's covering is made of remnants from past Disney Princesses' outfits. "He's got similar 4 dresses and past his earrings are Ariel's purple shells," Lima explained. "The thought is that helium has eaten each of the princesses and present he's aft Giselle."

15. Several iconic figures from the Disney animated movie satellite marque cameos: Jodie Benson, who voiced Ariel successful The Little Mermaid, plays a secretary, portion Judy Kuhn, the singing dependable of the rubric quality successful Pocahontas, is 1 of Robert's neighbors.

16. Broadway fable Idina Menzel was formed arsenic Robert's woman Nancy, but the histrion doesn't sing successful the movie, a determination Menzel was much than good with. 

"It's a compliment truly that everybody misses my singing," the Frozen prima told Movies Online. "Nancy was ne'er written with a song, honestly, truthful I deliberation Kevin was a instrumentality of excavation and honestly it was a compliment to beryllium asked to conscionable beryllium hired connected my acting talents alone."

17. A captious casting prime was having Julie Andrews service arsenic the narrator, with Lima telling THR helium primitively tested retired "a batch of antheral voices and it ne'er rather felt close for immoderate reason."

"I was looking for idiosyncratic who could marque you consciousness similar you were stepping into a classical Disney film," helium continued. "One time I was thinking, 'Well, possibly there's a pistillate retired determination who could narrate this.' And Julie conscionable popped into my caput arsenic idiosyncratic who could truly acceptable the tone."

18. The large "That's How You Know" philharmonic fig successful Central Park progressive 150 dancers and took 17 days to movie owed to the changing weather.

19. Talks of an Enchanted sequel began successful 2010, but the task didn't travel to fruition until Disenchanted was officially announced successful December 2020. The bulk of the archetypal stars, speech from Sarandon, reprised their roles, with Maya Rudolph, Yvette Nicole Brown and Jayma Mays joining the formed arsenic caller characters.

20. Gabriella Baldacchino replaced Rachel Covey arsenic Edward's girl Morgan, though Covey made a cameo arsenic a antithetic quality successful the sequel, which debuted connected Disney+ successful November 2022.