50 Fun Facts About Enchanted

Who plays Giselle?

The studio wanted a star, but the director insisted on a lesser-known actress and picked her from around 300 auditions.

What is the name of the animated fairy-tale kingdom Giselle comes from?

The sequel's transformed suburb is called Monrolasia in its honour.

Why is Queen Narissa so determined to keep Prince Edward from marrying?

She has her servant Nathaniel keep Edward busy hunting trolls so he never finds his true love.

How does Narissa get rid of Giselle on her wedding day?

Giselle comes out the other end as a live-action woman in Times Square.

Where in New York does Giselle first surface?

The manhole scene was shot in the real square, with actual pedestrians in the background and hired extras up front.

What is Robert Philip's job?

He does not believe in happily-ever-after because his wife left him and their daughter.

Who plays Robert Philip?

Disney wanted a bigger name than its unknown Giselle, and his Grey's Anatomy fame as 'McDreamy' fit the bill.

Who plays Prince Edward?

He chose to audition for the prince rather than Robert because Edward was 'more fun'; his one costume was padded at the chest, buttocks and crotch.

Who plays the wicked Queen Narissa?

Her screen time was short enough that her scenes were shot in two weeks.

Which British actor plays Narissa's servant Nathaniel?

The character has a penchant for disguises and eventually rebels against the queen.

Which Broadway star plays Robert's girlfriend Nancy Tremaine, in a role with no singing?

She called it a compliment to be hired for her acting alone; her duet with Marsden was cut from the film.

Nancy Tremaine is named after the stepmother in which Disney film?

Lady Tremaine is the villain of that 1950 classic.

What kind of animal is Giselle's friend Pip?

The animators gave the CGI version eyebrows, which real chipmunks do not have, to help him emote.

What does Pip discover to his dismay when he arrives in New York?

The director himself supplies Pip's squeaks in the real world; Jeff Bennett voices him in Andalasia.

How many poisoned apples does Narissa give Nathaniel to use on Giselle?

His first two attempts fail, so Narissa comes to New York to deliver the last one herself.

In which New York landmark is the costume ball held?

The dragon climbs it in the finale, with Robert in her claws.

Whose kiss finally wakes Giselle from the poisoned-apple sleep?

Edward tries first and fails, then realises who her true love is; Nancy gives Robert permission.

What does Narissa transform into for the film's climax?

The design was loosely based on a Chinese dragon and on Sarandon's own hag disguise.

What business does Giselle start after choosing to stay in New York?

Nathaniel stays in New York and Pip goes home, and both write autobiographies.

Who ends up marrying Prince Edward?

The pair notice each other while watching Giselle and Robert dance at the ball, and wed in Andalasia.

Who directed Enchanted?

He had previously directed Tarzan and 102 Dalmatians; the other three names all had a hand in the film's long development.

Which screen legend narrates the film?

Critics compared the effect of the film on Amy Adams's career to what Mary Poppins did for the narrator's.

The original 1997 script was considered unsuitable for Disney because it was what?

The first draft had Giselle mistaken for a stripper on arrival in New York.

Which pair of songwriters wrote the film's songs?

The two had previously teamed on Pocahontas and The Hunchback of Notre Dame.

How many of the film's songs were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song?

'Happy Working Song', 'That's How You Know' and 'So Close' were nominated, and all lost.

Which country star sings 'Ever Ever After' over the film's ending?

The song was written last, to replace the deleted duet between Idina Menzel and James Marsden.

Which singer performs the ballad 'So Close' at the ball, and later sang it at the Oscars?

The song was modelled on the title song from Beauty and the Beast, and it was the only nominated song not sung by Amy Adams.

Which real animals were the only ones actually filmed on set for 'Happy Working Song'?

All the cockroaches were CGI, as were the pigeons carrying brooms and rats scrubbing with toothbrushes.

The five-minute 'That's How You Know' number in Central Park took how many days to shoot?

The weather allowed only seven sunny days; the number used 300 extras and 150 dancers.

Where were the film's hand-drawn animated sequences produced?

Disney had laid off most of its traditional animators, so the work went to a company founded by a former Disney animator.

Enchanted was Disney's first live-action/traditional-animation hybrid feature since which 1988 film?

Unlike that film, the animated characters here rarely share the frame with live actors.

Roughly how much did Giselle's wedding dress weigh?

Eleven copies were made, each with 200 yards of fabric and twenty layers of petticoats; Adams called wearing it 'grueling'.

Roughly what percentage of Snow White did the director say went into Giselle's character?

The rest was borrowed from Cinderella and Aurora, with the spunk coming from Ariel.

Roughly how much did Enchanted gross worldwide?

It was the first film of the 21st century to open at number one over the Thanksgiving frame.

Why was Giselle ultimately left out of the official princess merchandising line-up?

A Giselle doll had already been shown at a 2007 toy fair with Disney Princess branding.

Which former Disney voice actress, once Ariel, plays Robert's secretary Sam?

The voices of Belle and Pocahontas also cameo, as a soap-opera character and a pregnant woman.

Where did Enchanted have its world premiere in October 2007?

The wide US release followed on November 21, just before Thanksgiving.

What is the title of the 2022 sequel?

It went straight to Disney+ and drew far more mixed reviews than the original.

Who directed the sequel?

He had briefly been attached to direct the original back in 2003.

In the sequel, Giselle moves the family from Manhattan to which suburban town?

Her wish on a magic wand turns it into the fantasy kingdom of Monrolasia.

Which comedian plays Malvina Monroe, the town-council head who becomes an evil queen in the sequel?

Yvette Nicole Brown and Jayma Mays play her two servants.

In which country was the sequel filmed in 2021?

The role of Morgan was recast with Gabriella Baldacchino, while the original Morgan cameos as a different character.

Who voices Pip the chipmunk in the real-world New York scenes, where he can only squeak?

Jeff Bennett voices the talking Pip in Andalasia; the character was modelled on sidekicks like Mushu and Timon.

How much did Touchstone and Sonnenfeld/Josephson reportedly pay for Bill Kelly's original script in 1997?

It took almost eight more years and a rewrite with Kevin Lima before Disney greenlit the film.

Which two films had Kevin Lima directed before being hired for Enchanted in 2005?

He brought Bill Kelly back to write a new version of the script.

Roughly how many actresses auditioned for the role of Giselle before Amy Adams was chosen?

The studio wanted a star, but Lima insisted on a lesser-known actress and announced Adams in November 2005.

How did the crew handle the crowds when filming Giselle's manhole entrance in Times Square?

A crowd also gathered to watch James Marsden and Timothy Spall shoot their Times Square scenes.

Robert and Morgan's ivory-fronted apartment building, The Paterno, stands at which Manhattan corner?

Most interiors were shot on three large stages at Steiner Studios in Brooklyn.

Which film did Enchanted narrowly beat on the US DVD sales chart in March 2008?

On Blu-ray the tables turned: its rival sold nearly four times as many discs.

Who replaced Rachel Covey as Morgan in the 2022 sequel Disenchanted?

Covey still makes a brief cameo; Adams, Dempsey, Menzel and Marsden all returned.