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While Glen Keane was deliberately kept from seeing Robby Benson during his work on Beast, Dave Pruiksma studied Angela Lansbury in order to create the character of Mrs Potts - although, apparently, he never actually met her. He was impressed by her subtle mannerisms, and incorporated many of them into the final character. While Mrs Potts is very much an interpretation of Angela Lansbury, her teacup-son emerged from the shadows thanks to Bradley Pierce, the boy who provided his voice. Jeffrey Katzenburg liked his performance so much that he insisted Chip's role (initially minor) was stren...

The self-styled 'ideal man' for Belle underwent some changes during Deja's development of him. Early loutish charicatures went (along with a dubious moustache) and in came a smoother, more handsome village braggart. Apparently research for the Gaston physique (and the attitude too, perhaps) came from visits to an LA gym - where real-life counterparts of the character worked out... Deja sums up Gaston: 'God, I know such people; Los Angeles is full of them.' After joining Disney in 1980, Deja was one of the team who worked on The Black Cauldron. Later credits include...

Belle, the go-it-alone, independent heroine and salvation of Beast was animated by James Baxter. Receiving a series of 'battlefield promotions' during production on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and later on Beauty and the Beast, this moved Baxter into the animation of a major character. Belle's appearance was developed from a sketch by story man Roger Allers, slightly modified to give her 'a more European look' - the shape and angle of her eyes, in particular, were intended to give her a more mature appearance than earlier heroines. Inspiration for angle and perspective - cruc...

[Maurice:] Help! Someone help me! [Tavern keeper:] Maurice? [Maurice:] Please! Please, I need your help. He's got her - he's got her locked in the dungeon! [LeFou:] Who? [Maurice:] Belle. We must go. N-not a minute to lose! [Gaston:] Whoa! Slow down, Maurice. Who's got Belle locked in a dungeon? [Maurice:] A beast! A horrible, monstrous beast! [Patron I:] Is it a big beast? [Maurice:] Huge! [Patron II:] With a long, ugly snout? [Maurice:] Hideously ugly! [Drinker III:] And sharp, cruel f...

[Belle:] Is he gone? Can you imagine? He asked me to marry him. Me, the wife of that boorish, brainless . . . "Madame Gaston!" Can't you just see it? "Madame Gaston!" His "little wife" No sir! Not me! I guarantee it I want much more than this provincial life I want adventure in the great wide somewhere I want it more than I can tell And for once it might be grand To have someone...

[Belle:] Little town It's a quiet village Ev'ry day Like the one before Little town Full of little people Waking up to say: [Townsfolk:] Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! Bonjour! [Belle:] There goes the baker with his tray, like always The same old bread and rolls to sell Ev'ry morning just the same Since the morning that we came To this poor provincial to...