Andy Cohen delivered the news to Frozen star Kristen Bell that his son, Benjamin, absolutely loathes one of the main characters from the Disney film.
“My son hates Elsa so much,” Cohen, 57, said to Bell, 45, before recording her appearance on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy on Friday, October 24, according to a video shared via the radio station’s Instagram. “He is the biggest Anna fan. Like it is so clear to him that Elsa is horrible.”
Bell voiced Princess Anna in the 2013 animated movie while Idina Menzel portrayed Elsa, Anna’s older sister. Frozen tells the story of the two princesses navigating their relationship as Elsa has magical ice powers while Anna does not. After Elsa’s powers almost kill Anna as a child, she locks herself away to keep her sister safe.
Bell, for her part, was shocked to hear that Benjamin, 6, had such strong feelings about Elsa, who has become one of Disney’s most popular characters.
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“I’ve never heard those words,” Bell confessed.
Cohen added that he felt the need to tell her since she was in the movie. But there was one thing Bell couldn’t let go.
“Wait, why is she horrible?” Bell asked.
Cohen then dropped the subject as he and Bell started recording their interview.
Bell has voiced Anna in both Frozen and the 2019 sequel. The film also includes Jonathan Groff and Josh Gad as Kristoff and Olaf the snowman, respectively. Bell will reprise her role again alongside Mendel, Groff and Gad for Frozen 3, whichpremieres in November 2027. Disney confirmed in 2023 that there will be a fourth Frozen film.
Benjamin isn’t the only child who has mixed feelings about Anna, Elsa and the rest of the Frozen gang. Bell previously admitted that her daughters, Lincoln, 11, and Delta, 10, never jumped onto the Frozen bandwagon.
“They certainly appreciate it in the fact that they can go to college because of it, but they’re not part of the Frozen phenomenon,” Bell said of her kids’ thoughts on Frozen in an October 2024 interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “Because kids are meant to make you feel grounded and they are meant to reject things their parents are involved in. Even if they secretly liked it, they would never tell me.”
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While Bell’s daughters aren’t impressed with their mom being the voice of a Disney Princess, it was a dream come true for the Nobody Wants This actress, especially when she got to provide input to make the character relatable.
“I said all the Disney princesses stand like this, their hands are always perfect, their posture is perfect,” Bell recalled to the outlet. “I want [Anna] to be the opposite. I want her to wake up with drool in her mouth and I want her to snore and I want her to talk too much and too fast and wear her heart on her sleeve and trip over things, like the real quirk for a girl who is lovable, but not as put together.”
Bell gushed about how grateful to be able to contribute to Anna’s personality.
“This whole experience was really collaborative and some of those things they wrote in and others they didn’t and they let me kind of take the reins,” she noted. “I still get such a sense of joy when I see it because I’m very proud.”
