Lumiere is known for his smooth delivery and nonchalant attitude, but even the talented candelabra needs a mulligan from time to time.
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Actor Ewan McGregor is tasked with bringing the fan favorite character to life in Disney‘s live-action retelling of Beauty and the Beast, and the talented actor recently shared a glimpse behind the scenes while promoting season 3 of his hit show Fargo (via IGN). Lumiere is of course featured in one of the biggest musical numbers of the movie Be Our Guest, but evidently, he wasn’t happy with his first run at the song.
“I hadn’t been in a recording studio for a long time, and I was in a recording studio in London when we recorded the song for the first time. There was an enormous amount of pressure, I thought,” he recalled. “I had only just arrived, I was jet lagged from LA. I got off a plane one day and the next day I was in a recording studio. It’s very nerve-wracking recording, because you’re in a quiet room and through the glass there’s people who are looking at you, and they speak to each other and you can’t hear them. In this instance there were 50 people in there, and I was standing jet lagged alone trying to sing in a French accent this big number. Every time I stopped they would go, ‘OK, hang on,’ [and talk amongst themselves]. I became terribly scared they were going, ‘What the f–k are we going to do with him?’
Luckily that’s not what they were saying, but that didn’t deter McGregor, who decided to take another crack at it later on. “We did it, it was fine, and then I asked Bill, I said, ‘Look, when we’re working on the dialogue next time, can I have another shot at it?’” McGregor continued. “So we went just privately, me and him and a few people in New York, and we recorded it a second time.”
It speaks well of the project and McGregor that “okay” just isn’t good enough, and the movie will only be better for that kind of attention to detail.
Beauty and the Beast is the fantastic journey of Belle, a bright, beautiful and independent young woman who is taken prisoner by a beast in his castle. Despite her fears, she befriends the castle’s enchanted staff and learns to look beyond the Beast’s hideous exterior and realize the kind heart and soul of the true Prince within.
Beauty and the Beast stars Emma Watson as Belle; Dan Stevens as the Beast; Luke Evans as Gaston, the handsome, but shallow villager who woos Belle; Oscar winner Kevin Kline as Maurice, Belles eccentric, but lovable father; Josh Gad as Lefou, Gaston’s long-suffering aide-de-camp; Golden Globe nominee Ewan McGregor as Lumiere, the candelabra; Oscar nominee Stanley Tucci as Maestro Cadenza, the harpsichord; Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Plumette, the feather duster; six-time Tony Award winner Audra McDonald as Madame Garderobe, the wardrobe; Oscar nominee Ian McKellen as Cogsworth, the mantel clock; and two-time Academy Award winner Emma Thompson as the teapot, Mrs. Potts.
Beauty and the Beast will be released in U.S. theaters on March 17, 2017.
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