“Merida is a really different kind of character for me to play.”įor one thing, Macdonald is 36 and the mother of a 4-year-old, while Merida is a 10th century teenager locked in emotional conflict with her parents, especially her demanding mother, the queen. “I met with the producers and the director in Los Angeles, and they asked me to record a couple of scenes to see if I was up to it,” Macdonald says. The Glasgow native certainly had a lock on the Scottish brogue. An Emmy winner for the 2005 TV movie “The Girl in the Café” and a regular on the HBO hit “Boardwalk Empire,” Macdonald had never explored the world of animation before she got a call from the Pixar folks after Reese Witherspoon reportedly withdrew for scheduling reasons.
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