'" Diaz also confessed that she hated her own singing in the film. "I love singing but I hate how bad a singer I am, but I try. “I would have liked a couple of years to prepare for the role, which is what it required!" she added.
The actress laughed that the second time she cried about having to flex her vocal cords for the film "there was no excuse - other than I was completely terrified". However, the 42-year-old eventually conquered her fears: "I knew that they were going to surround me with the best professionals and teachers, and they did.
Not a trained singer, Cameron has never been confident about her singing voice. In the Shrek films, voice actress Holly Fields has provided Princess Fiona's singing voice. “Shrek and Star Wars are my dream jobs come true.
Jada Pinkett Smith: Annie.
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At this point in the film, we've only heard Keaton sing a song tentatively. But here she is full of smuldering confidence. And she sings a song about visiting the past – something the characters in Annie Hall physically do.
The Oscar winner would play Miss Hannigan, who was played by Carol Burnett in the 1982 film.
"Musically, 'Annie' is a disaster. The melodious original score by Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin gets the full-on Autotune pap treatment, which takes to these songs about as well as a lute to death metal.
Contrary to popular belief, Zellweger authentically sang “Over the Rainbow” in front of a live audience as Garland. Although she has sung in film roles before, Zellweger prepared for this role by working with a voice coach.
Despite her four-octave range, Grande has had no formal vocal training. “Music just kind of happened, I never really trained for anything,” she said in 2013. “I played French horn for a few years, that's where I learned a lot about sheet music and theory.
Though her mother was an opera singer(!), she can't sing.
Bullock told Wired that although her father was a voice teacher and her mother was an opera singer, she unfortunately doesn't have their pipes.
In the film adaptations, Annie kept Sandy for the duration of the story unlike in the musical where she was forced to abandon the dog when the Hooverville was raided. In the 2014 film, Sandy is a female dog instead of a male.
In the original 1977 Broadway production, Annie was played by an Airedale Terrier mix. But in the 1982 movie adaptation of the story of Annie, her dog Sandy was played by a 6-year-old Otterhound named Bingo. While Otterhounds sometimes give off the appearance of a mixed breed dog, they are in fact a rare, purebred dog.
Aileen was 9 years old when she was cast as Annie. Aileen Quinn was under contract for several years with Columbia Pictures to make other Annie sequels which never materialized.
Annie's unnamed fake mother (Tracie Thoms) is a villainess from the 2014 big screen adaptation of Annie. She and her husband (also unnamed) were hired by Will Stacks' campaign manager, Guy Danlily, to pose as Annie's biological parents.
Annie's Fake Parents are supporting antagonists in the 2014 movie adaptation Annie. Annie's fake father was portrayed by Dorian Missick, who also voiced Victor Vance in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories.
These were followed in 1982 by the musical film Annie, in which Daddy Warbucks was portrayed by Albert Finney, who had shaved his head to play the role.
West End original
Andrea McArdle, the original Broadway Annie, played the title role for 40 performances.
She is woken up by Miss Hannigan and sings "It's the Hard Knock Life" with the rest of the orphans. Throughout the sequence, she is seen running around, peeling potatoes, and sleeping on the stairs.
When Bert Healy is on the radio, Molly and the rest of the orphans start singing and dancing to the song "You're Never Fully Dressed without a Smile," with Molly leading the singing. This is Molly's signature scene in the movie.
On Miss Hannigan's part after failing to get Annie to vouch for her, she goes insane like she said she would and is taken away on a hand truck to an asylum.
Principal photography took place in 1981 over the course of six weeks at Monmouth College, now Monmouth University, in West Long Branch, New Jersey, which has two mansions that were used in the film, one of which is the Shadow Lawn Mansion.
During the Hard Knock Life sequence, Pepper sings the lines, "No one cares if you grow or if you shrink" and "Make her drink a mickey-fin". She is seen sweeping, hanging someone on a light fixture, and emptying water on people. Later when Annie hides in the laundry basket, Pepper says she's going to tell Miss Hannigan.