Eden is well known for performing the role of Elphaba in the Broadway production of Wicked, but you might also recognize her as the featured soloist in the Magical fireworks spectacular at the Disneyland Resort.Ĭomedian Jeff Ross ( The Wedding Ringer) will provide the voice of Hook Hand’s brother, Hook Foot.
Eden Espinosaīroadway star, Eden Espinosa, will voice Cassandra, Rapunzel’s handmaiden and confidant. Seventeen actors were announced this morning-and Disney fans will recognize quite a few from all around the worlds of Disney.Īshley Judd ( Divergent) has will lend her voice to the role of Rapunzel’s mother, Queen Arianna. Today, we’re positively ecstatic that Disney Channel has just announced the voice cast who will be joining Mandy Moore and Zachari Levi when the series premieres in 2017. The series unfolds as Rapunzel acquaints herself with her parents, her kingdom, and the people of Corona. That happiness grew with the announcement of an animated series based on the film, which will take place between the events of the feature and the start of the 2012 short, Tangled Ever After. Cassandra is not Gothel in disguise.Once upon a time-well, in 2010-Walt Disney Animation Studios released the feature film Tangled, and we’ve been happier ever after since our first viewing. So, in conclusion, they don’t look enough alike, they don’t sound alike at all, Cassandra attempts to cut Rapunzel’s hair (something Gothel would never do) and the biggest factor, Gothel is dead. Whether she lived there or not prior to kidnapping Rapunzel, it was still clearly extremely well hidden, and in an attempt to keep Rapunzel’s hair to herself, she wouldn’t be going around telling anyone about its location. Also, even if she did have someone that close, how would they find her… dust? The tower was part of the secret, and we don’t know how long she was living there before she brought Rapunzel there, so for a minimum of eighteen years, she’s been managing to keep the tower hidden. That is not conducive to making friends who are close enough that they’d come looking for you if you went missing. She was a woman who was hiding a secret for hundreds of years. Let’s examine Gothel’s character for a moment. If this was Gothel, she’d be manipulating her into trying to keep it, not doing something that makes Rapunzel more comfortable for Rapunzel’s own sake.Īnd boy, is she ever dead! She’s so dead that she is dust, scattered on the ground. “But what if someone found a way to revive her?” I hear you cry. Not to mention, it’s what Rapunzel wants. Gothel would never try to cut Rapunzel’s hair! Even if she found a new way to stay young forever, she is a woman of plans, and leaving Rapunzel’s hair long would be a contingency plan in case whatever was keeping her alive somehow failed (like Rapunzel’s hair failed before). Tompkins - I can’t fathom them getting someone who doesn’t sound remotely like Donna Murphy to play someone who is supposed to be Gothel, even in disguise.ģ) Cassandra tries to cut Rapunzel’s hair:
Considering how many of the original cast they got back from the movie - Mandy Moore, Zachary Levi, M.C. When curly hair is cut, it gets curlier, not straighter, and Cassandra’s hair is definitely not as curly as Gothel’s. Also, Cassandra’s hair isn’t nearly curly enough to be Gothel’s hair. And while the characters in Tangled the Series are stylized, their shapes are blocked accurately to the character designs. Their lips aren’t the same shape, either. Their noses aren’t the same shape - Gothel’s is downturned while Cassandra’s is upturned. Gothel’s eyes are also characterized by her heavy lids, which Cassandra doesn’t have. But their eye shape is completely different. Yes, perhaps their coloration is similar. I’ll start with the first thing that people have been using as their evidence. There are several extremely big reasons why I feel this way. Personally, I feel that this theory is… beyond ridiculous. I’ve seen several people speculating recently that Cassandra may be Gothel in disguise.