FROZEN star Kristen Bell has revealed there was a risky double entendre added to one of the film’s hit songs.
The smash hit Disney movie, launched in 2013, saw the 44-year-old Gossip Girl narrator sing the NSFW (not safe or suitable for work) lyrics while portraying Anna.
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In ‘For the First Time in Forever’, Kristen’s character Princess Anna sings: “For years I’ve roamed these empty halls / Why have a ballroom with no balls?”
Admitting to Vanity Fair that the juvenile joke was meant as just that, she said: “How did we get that joke in there?”’
“C’mon! We slid it under the radar. It almost didn’t make it in.”
She admitted they had distorted the truth to get the line past Disney bosses who questioned it, saying: “But then we were like, ‘What are you talking about?’
“‘That’s not what it means. Don’t be a perv!’ We slid it under the radar.”
It’s not the first time Disney movies have come under fire for their less-than-PG references and subliminal sexual messages.
Many of its hit movies have been revealed to contain risqué references that may have previously gone under the parenting radar.
With everything from nude paintings in Ratatouille to naked ladies in Fantastia, former animator Tom Sito previously told the Huffington Post that the company had long been cleaning up much of this content since the VHS days.
He said: “In pre-video and pre-VHS and VCR and stuff, people used to put little inside jokes in films because things were running at 1/24th of a second.”
“So you say, ‘Well, nobody’s seeing anything.’…And then [cartoonists] will do that as a joke.
“But really since the modern age of playing back stuff and everything, they look at everything now, even the old films. They’ll go frame by frame and they’ll pull those questionable things out all the time.”
The Nobody Wants This star said she had ‘always dreamed’ of being in a Disney animated film, and was obsessed with them from a young age.
“I remember sitting in my living room and on my little old boombox, like, recording myself singing ‘The Little Mermaid’ in case I ever needed that tape.”
The actress said she was “thrilled” when she finally got the opportunity to do so.
“It occurred to me that I would do anything they asked me to, but what I should be valiantly striving for is to create a character that I really needed to see when I was 11 years old, which was someone like this character,” she said.
In 2004, she landed the title role in the TV show Veronica Mars, which ran until 2007 and was widely known for her voiceover work on Gossip Girl.
She also starred in the recent Netflix rom-com series Nobody Wants This.
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