Algum diretores ficou registrado explicando por que eles escolheram lançar um músico famoso em um filme musical e não tê-los cantando?

Eu não encontrei nada relacionado a Taylor Swift, mas o link a seguir refere-se a uma entrevista com Idina Menzel sobre seu papel em Enchanted e por que ela não cantou ...

Ela disse quando perguntada:

"It's a compliment really that everybody misses my singing. Nancy was never written with a song, honestly, so I think Kevin was a fan of mine and honestly it was a compliment to be asked to just be hired on my acting talents alone."

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Infelizmente, não consegui encontrar entrevistas do próprio Kevin Lima ...

... No entanto, encontrei uma entrevista no AnimatedViews.com:

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E isso teve menções de Chris Chase, produtor executivo do Enchanted , falando sobre Idina Menzel e ela não sendo escolhida para cantar no filme:

AV: Indina Menzel is a very famous Broadway singer in shows such as Wicked, but in Enchanted she doesn’t sing. Why’s that?

CC: We cast as an actress. That was one of the interesting things. A lot of people have asked us. They know her so well as a singer and they kind of wonder why would we cast her if her main purpose was not to sing. Kevin and I are both fans of her from Rent and from Wicked, and we’ve seen her in other things and we just thought she was a wonderful actress and she felt like the perfect New Yorker. Just like the contrast between Andalasia and, say, Times Square in New York, we wanted a contrast between Giselle, who was a princess from Andalasia and the woman who was quintessentially “New York”. So, it ultimately felt to us that she was the perfect New Yorker.

AV: In an early version of the film, didn’t she have a song?

CC: Yes. We had discussed a song that might at the end of the movie, between her and the Prince. You know what? With a different structure of the movie, it would have been a great thing. But, ultimately, the movie just couldn’t be longer. The movie couldn’t support it because she’s not the main character. It’s really not a movie about her. I would love to do another movie which is about her, because I’d love to have her in a movie where she sings! But that’s the kind of hard choice that Kevin always has to make. Sometimes, you have to let things go that are wonderful things and you want to find a place for them, but, you know, you have to stay true to the movie. The movie tells what it needs.

Eu acho que é seguro supor que há geralmente uma razão principal pela qual músicos famosos são escalados em papéis não-cantantes (embora seja algo que a maioria dos diretores provavelmente evitaria): Músicos famosos podem desenhar um certo número de espectadores - geralmente de um grupo demográfico que o filme não atrairia de outra forma.

De acordo com a entrevista, Eliseo d'Annunzio citou que ela era simplesmente dublê para gerar alguma atenção da mídia.