Oh, I think we take inspiration from a lot of films.
I mean, you just can't help it.
It's part of who we are, part of our, sort of, DNA.
You've got some great new characters.
I'm sure I'm not allowed to mention them,
but mine's just like a tiny little creature.
If your inspiration started as legends from Norway
in the first film, how has it evolved?
The first film evolved more from particularly
Hans Christian Andersen's story as the inspiration.
We certainly more pulled the themes from that,
as opposed to did a direct translation.
But what we did in this one that I was excited about
was we went even deeper into the-,
we knew we wanted to explore magic, Elsa's magic,
and since this was inspired by Scandinavia
and we went into the old Norse myths and the Scandinavian folklores,
that grounded the area and that extended us to Iceland as well.
So it was really looking into the magic of the traditions
and the folklore there that started bringing these creatures all to life.
Yeah, I really like the new influences.
Thank you.
There's a scene where Anna and Elsa are playing as little girls
and Anna says, 'Make a prince, a fancy one.'
When so many positive changes are being made to Disney princesses,
what makes a prince in this day and age?
- Oh, what makes a prince? - I think Kristoff is a prince.
- In my opinion. - Yeah, Kristoff is a prince.
From the first movie, he's the real goods, I guess.
He's the real thing.
He doesn't try to be anything more than what he is,
he doesn't try to put on a mask necessarily,
but yet he's there, he's always there for the women, he's there for Anna.
Whatever she needs, he's there to support her.
Yeah, I think that's more the true prince these days.
Yeah, definitely.
There's less good and evil storytelling,
but looking at the relationship between humanity and nature.
How do you feel about the environmental conversations
the film might stir up?
I think that the way this film connects you to nature
and the way it triggers that conversation is fascinating.
I mean, obviously if you create a film that is evocative enough
for conversations that are relevant today,
not just emotionally but in terms of community, in terms of the world,
that means everything.
So we're just getting into those conversations now of,
for us, we always ground it in story.
We don't try to preach something as much as let it be evocative
and let there be-, many people can join the conversation.
And so by rooting it all in Elsa, in Elsa's magic and Elsa's journey,
that was the centre of the story for us.
I love the line where the young princesses are playing
and they say, 'Who cares about danger when there's love?'
What drives some of your biggest story choices
now the girls are older?
We look at life and life is always changing,
obstacles are always there, you are always maturing.
And so looking at, there's still fear in that,
and still the power of love is always at the core of this,
but how these two use their familial love to drive them forward,
get through these moments, even in moments when they're not together,
we were really inspired by.
But also, you can see within that,
there's still vulnerability when you make a choice to make change,
and together, hopefully they help navigate that.
I heard the technology got so good in the facial expressions,
you didn't have to use as much dialogue.
Did you feel there were loads of new ways to move the story on
with technology in particular?
Yeah, that was a huge one.
I mean, it was like subtext, subtext, subtext,
that you get to do that with animated characters.
Yeah, more rigs in the face,
just all these subtle things that they can do now, it's incredible.
And of course, our animators from the first film to now,
there were six years in between,
so they were working on all the other films
and the technology was changing with each film
and getting better and better, so we were the benefit of that.
These magic storms and spirits are really mesmerising to watch.
Do you sometimes take any inspiration from other films,
maybe The Wizard of Oz or something?
Oh, I think we take inspiration from a lot of films,
films we grew up with. - We grew up on.
You know, a lot of the early Disney films,
and Wizard of Oz is a great one.
- Cindarella. - Cindarella? Yeah.
Pinocchio, one of my favourites.
So yeah, I mean, you just can't help it.
It's part of who we are, part of our, sort of, DNA.