![]() ![]() Even when I was a very little kid I had a Mork doll - an egg with a little Mork in it. “I was obsessed with Robin Williams my whole life,” Scott smiles, “because of Mork & Mindy. It was never lost on me how lucky I was to be in his presence every time I was.” “When I think about Aladdin,” Linda reflects warmly, “I have the experience of doing this character. One thing that both Scott and Linda have over the successors to their roles is that they actually had the opportunity to work with Robin Williams during the recording of their Aladdin. And I’m really proud to to be associated with a princess who got to deliver that message.” ![]() That’s a really powerful message for young girls and boys. And she says in the movie to her father, ‘The law is wrong!’ She risks her safety and her comfort and she goes out and she finds a way to change that law. Jasmine was fighting against an injustice, with the marriage law of her society in her time. I’ve heard the criticism that all Jasmine wanted to do was get married. A lot of times people ask me if I think that Jasmine was a good role model. And I really connected to her on that level. And I was sort of at that stage in my life where I was just starting to experience the world for the first time through my own eyes. It was just this rich and vibrant scene and she was just moving from one thing to another and really experiencing the world for the first time. She then sees a child and offers him an apple. And she’s talking to the camel, and she meets Aladdin. ![]() And the first scene I read was in the marketplace. Notes Linda, “I remember reading the script and feeling immediately connected to her. He becomes more comfortable in his role as the future Sultan of Agrabah.” By the time you get to the third film, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, he gets married and he and Jasmine are getting ready to have a kid and everything. “The first one he’s an orphan on his own - or at least he thinks so. “Sometimes I feel like I’m a bit of a one-trick pony, but Aladdin sort of grew up over the course of those sequels,” Scott muses. beyond the Broadway show and the recent Will Smith live action film, so they have a good perspective on who these people are. Scott Weinger and Linda Larkin have voiced the respective characters of Aladdin and Jasmine in pretty much every form the Disney property has taken - TV series, two movie sequels, video games, etc. I feel like I’m still a teenage princess.'” ![]() When it hits me is when I think about how little cousins were when the first movie came out, and they’re grown ups now. Linda Larkin, the original voice of Jasmine, observes: “It feels like no time has passed, and at the same time it feels like it’s been a part of my whole life. “You know,” points out Scott Weinger, the original voice of Aladdin, “I always knew that Aladdin was going to be this classic movie that we’d still be talking about all these years later, just because Disney has a tradition of making those kinds of movies.” On a deeper level, though, it’s about being true to yourself and finding the magic within (don’t puke - it’s not nearly as sappy as that sounds). On the surface, it’s about a street urchin who finds a genie that he uses to turn him into a prince in an attempt to win the heart of the princess Jasmine. In its search for another fairytale to bring to animated life, the Disney animation team turned its attention to Aladdin. ![]()
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