{"id":54306,"date":"2023-11-15T23:03:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/chris-pine-says-he-was-nervous-to-sing-with-ariana-debose-for-wish\/"},"modified":"2023-11-15T23:03:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T23:03:04","slug":"chris-pine-says-he-was-nervous-to-sing-with-ariana-debose-for-wish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/11\/15\/chris-pine-says-he-was-nervous-to-sing-with-ariana-debose-for-wish\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Pine Says He Was Nervous to Sing With Ariana DeBose for &#8216;Wish&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/chris-pine\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Pine<\/a><span>\u00a0is adding yet another Disney royal role to his resume. The 43-year-old actor portrayed Nicholas Devereaux in 2004&#8217;s <\/span><em><span>The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement <\/span><\/em><span>and Cinderella&#8217;s Prince in the 2014 fantasy musical film<\/span><em><span>\u00a0<\/span><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/152981_go_behind_the_scenes_of_into_the_woods\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Into the Woods<\/em><\/a><em><span>. <\/span><\/em><span>Now\u00a0he&#8217;s taking on an evil king in the upcoming animated film\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/movies\/wish\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Wish<\/em><\/a><span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was a prince in a Disney film, and now I get to play an evil king. It&#8217;s a nice balance,&#8221; Pine quips to ET&#8217;s\u00a0Denny Directo.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pine plays Magnifico, the leader of the kingdom of Rosas, who possesses mystical powers that make him the keeper of his subjects&#8217; deepest wishes &#8212; which he wields to selfish ends. This puts him in conflict with Asha, played by\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/ariana-debose\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ariana DeBose<\/a><span>, a teen girl who wishes on a star to try and save her kingdom from impending darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The film also stars Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama,\u00a0Evan Peters,\u00a0Harvey Guill\u00e9n,\u00a0Ramy Youssef, Niko Vargas, Della Saba and Jon Rudnitsky.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Pine gushes that voicing the morally dubious king was &#8220;the most fun&#8221; he&#8217;s had in a while, recalling how he was able to be a &#8220;complete lunatic and throw everything at the wall to see if it sticks, you know?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I had so much fun doing it, and the directors just let me kind of play ball,&#8221; he shares. &#8220;What I love [is], you want to love and hate the bad guys. You want to be nice and charming and all that stuff and then blow up and then show multiple sides.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Although he tells ET that he didn&#8217;t exactly draw inspiration from Disney&#8217;s classic villains, Pine is enthusiastic about the layered perspective that his Magnifico will bring to the villain Rolodex. While a line in the film warns that people should &#8220;never trust a handsome face,&#8221; Pine muses that maybe the true warning should be to &#8220;never trust vacant charm.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While\u00a0Magnifico may be cut from a different cloth than most villains, he does take\u00a0inspiration from classic Disney villains in a vital way &#8212; with a great solo song.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>While it&#8217;s no surprise that\u00a0Pine more than holds his own opposite the Oscar-winning DeBose &#8212; he displayed his musical chops in\u00a0<\/span><em><span>Into the Woods<\/span><\/em><span>, after all &#8212; the actor confessed he was a bit intimidated to perform opposite the musical star.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;It&#8217;s just not something I do on a daily,&#8221; Pine says bashfully. &#8220;When you&#8217;re singing opposite Ariana&#8230; it&#8217;s a big deal.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When ET spoke with DeBose, the actress had nothing but good things to say about her singing partner.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;He can sing! He can absolutely sing,&#8221; she declared when enlightened about her co-star doubting his ability. &#8220;When I found out that I was cast in this film, I was like, &#8216;Oh!&#8217; I mean, did you see him in <\/span><em><span>Into The Woods<\/span><\/em><span>? &#8230;I think Chris is one of those examples of not understanding just how talented he is.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>DeBose teased that fans will be surprised when they hear Pine&#8217;s work in <\/span><em><span>Wish<\/span><\/em><span>, saying, &#8220;I love the sound of his voice, the way that he molds words. He is a delicious villain. You know people are going to love to hate him, and I just love watching him work.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>When it comes to her role as Asha, DeBose says she&#8217;s eternally grateful for the opportunity. &#8220;It&#8217;s heartening and almost overwhelming. You know, I&#8217;ve seen so many young, beautiful brown girls already dressing up [as Asha] &#8212; and just beautiful young people. They&#8217;re not all brown.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;I was like, &#8216;That&#8217;s really cool too.&#8217; Everyone seems to be inspired by this girl, her heart and her wish,&#8221; she adds. &#8220;And I think what&#8217;s so lovely is you&#8217;ve got people of all ages singing this song called &#8216;This Wish&#8217; that literally is, &#8216;I make this wish to have something more for us.&#8217;\u00a0That wish is not for her, it&#8217;s for everyone else,\u00a0and I was like, that&#8217;s special. And in the age of social media, where it&#8217;s a little self-serving,\u00a0this is speaking to people. That&#8217;s epic to me.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span>Wish<\/span><\/em><span>\u00a0is in theaters Nov. 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/chris-pine-admits-he-was-nervous-to-sing-in-front-of-ariana-debose-for-wish-exclusive-214972\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Pine\u00a0is adding yet another Disney royal role to his resume. The 43-year-old actor portrayed Nicholas Devereaux in 2004&#8217;s The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement and Cinderella&#8217;s Prince in the 2014 fantasy musical film\u00a0Into the Woods. Now\u00a0he&#8217;s taking on an evil king in the upcoming animated film\u00a0Wish. &#8220;I was a prince in a Disney film, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54307,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[871,1084,174,32,75,20,4642],"class_list":{"0":"post-54306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-ariana-debose","9":"tag-chris-pine","10":"tag-entertainment-tonight","11":"tag-features","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-wish"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}