'Frozen' Retrospective Reveals the Actress Originally Playing Elsa, a Role Kristen Bell & Idina Menzel Both Auditioned For But Didn't Book, Talks Adele Dazeem Mix-Up

The original movie was going to be very different…

“It opened with Elsa’s wedding, and she was jilted at the altar. She ran out of the church, ran up to the mountains, and made a wish on a star so that she would never feel this pain again,” codirector and cowriter Chris Buck recalled. “The wish froze her heart, so she would never feel pain—but she also couldn’t feel love again. She couldn’t feel anything. She was basically a villain.”

There was another very big difference in the plot: “Anna and Elsa, they knew each other. They lived in the same village. Believing that Elsa was not a bad person, and was not evil, Anna was the one that was going to save Elsa.”