Behind the Scenes of the voice actors in Disney’s “The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (released 30 years ago on June 21st, 1996)



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    1. No_Kangaroo_9826 on

      I feel like Kevin Kline just likes to let loose in voice acting. Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Road to El Dorado, Bob’s Burgers.

      I randomly say that I love the feel of the fog under my cape.

    2. Looking back, Esmeralda may be the blandest Romani street dancer ever put on screen. She’s basically Cinderella in a colorful skirt: beautiful, compassionate, morally upright, and equipped with thoroughly upper-middle-class American values. Disney seemed determined to sand away anything that might make her genuinely dangerous, unpredictable, or difficult.

      A more memorable version might have had a sharp temper, a distrust of outsiders, reckless instincts, or a tendency to start fights she couldn’t finish. Maybe a rasp in her voice and a knife in her boot. Quasimodo and Frollo are defined by their contradictions; Esmeralda mostly arrives fully formed. Admirable, certainly. Interesting? Not nearly as much.