Bibbidi bobbidi boo! The story of Cinderella has captivated audiences for many years — and the celebs who’ve performed her have managed regularly to place their very own spin on the enduring character.
Julie Andrews, Drew Barrymore and Brandy Norwood placed on a pair of glass slippers in hopes of discovering their Prince Charming because the fairy story princess earlier than Hilary Duff, Lily James and Camila Cabello enlisted the assistance of their fairy godmothers on the massive display. With every new Cinderella-inspired movie, one other era of followers realized the character’s story of overcoming her tough circumstances — and defeating her stepmother and stepsisters — to make her personal fortunately ever after.
In April 2016, Barrymore mirrored on her function as Danielle in Ever After: A Cinderella Story, revealing that her personal private turmoil drew her to the 1998 movie, which is a twist on Cinderella’s unique story.
“I used to be making an attempt to reinvent myself and are available out of a tumultuous interval,” the Charlie’s Angels actress informed Good Housekeeping on the time. “[I wanted to] restart my profession and begin an organization with [Nancy Juvonen] and be a younger lady. I had been a child and a clumsy teenager as all of us are, and I used to be at that place in my life the place I used to be really asking, ‘What have I realized? What do I feel? Who am I going to be?’”
She recalled coming throughout The Grimm Brothers’ model of Cinderella and noticing that they “had all of it unsuitable.” Barrymore thought that Cinderella wasn’t rescued by some prince, however as an alternative managed to avoid wasting herself. “I believed, ‘Rescue your self? That’s who I wish to be, that’s who I must be on this life,’” she added.
The fantasy movie led to a shift in Barrymore’s perspective on life and the way she embodied various kinds of heroines on display.
“Rescuing your self is the last word fairy story, and that fairy tales are normally simply very tremendous darkish at first after which they’ve the chance to get tremendous mild, I like that trajectory too,” the discuss present host continued. “That made me really feel calm and prefer it doesn’t matter in the event you really feel like you might have private black X’s in your life otherwise you assume you haven’t achieved every thing good otherwise you bought dealt an odd set of playing cards, no matter it’s, it simply doesn’t matter. It at all times can get mild. And all of us need love on the finish of the day. We would like the prince, however in the event you get your self as much as that mountain as an alternative of him carrying you up there, it’s simply that kiss is all of the sweeter.”
Brandy had an analogous life-changing second when she slipped into Cinderella’s blue costume in 1997’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella.
“It was a recreation changer, like, it was simply so completely different, and it simply gave everybody a possibility to only play these iconic characters, and see it otherwise,” the “Boy Is Mine” singer informed Leisure Weekly in February 2021 throughout the solid’s digital reunion. “It was simply so magical.”
The Mississippi native beforehand defined how starring alongside the late Whitney Houston, who portrayed her fairy godmother, was a career-defining expertise.
“I had the perfect time working together with her. She was like an angel. It bought to the purpose the place I actually bought an opportunity to be myself and make her chuckle and get snug sufficient to sing in entrance of her,” Brandy solely informed Us Weekly in December 2020. “And it was only a dream come true. Simply 4 years earlier than that I used to be making an attempt to fulfill her, speaking my method from a nosebleed part all the way in which all the way down to backstage to fulfill her. I didn’t get an opportunity to fulfill her at the moment, however 4 years later, I’m on set together with her singing ‘Unattainable.’”
Scroll all the way down to see which actresses have portrayed Cinderella over time:
