composition and lyrics respectively for Tangled . You may recognize this duo from their award-winning collaboration on The Little Mermaid .
Their Broadway musical-style numbers are prominently featured in Tangled , but some were cut . Menkin told Entertainment Weekly , “ The first song we wrote was the same music for ‘ When Will My Life Begin ’ but called ‘ What More Could I Ever Need ?’ and it was much more about celebrating Rapunzel ’ s life at the tower .”
THE CHARACTERS Casting Zachary Levi to voice Flynn Rider was a perfect choice . But choosing Flynn ’ s
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face was a bit like sorting through those “ Wanted ” posters plastered all over the woods . Directors Byron Howard and Nathan Greno held what they would later call the “ hot man meeting ,” where a test group of women reviewed an entire wall of drawings and photos of men . Their mission was to give feedback on the fairest of all Flynns . After much delegation , a winning sketch of our very own Flynn Rider emerged in all his smolder .
Pascal was based on a real panther chameleon owned by Disney animator , Kellie Lewis . The name of that chameleon ? Pascal ! Yep , she had just bought him the day they were naming the character . Watch the credits for the “ chameleon kids ,” which the real Pascal fathered during production .
The village scene boasts over 3,000 human figures — the largest crowd scene to date in a Disney animated movie .
THE HAIR For Rapunzel to escape her tower , animators calculated that she would need about 70 feet of hair . Those locks would weigh 60 to 80 pounds and have a total of 100,000 strands in real life .