Interview with Ginnifer Goodwin, Voice of Fawn in TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast #NeverbeastBloggers

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As part of the #McFarlandUSAEvent blog team, I got to do some pretty cool things thanks to Disney. All opinions, as always, are 100% my own!

Today is a super exciting day! You can now get TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast on Disney Blu-ray, Digital HD, and Disney Movies Anywhere! In celebration, I am sharing the interview with the beautiful Ginnifer Goodwin that the 24 other bloggers and myself got to do! Ginnifer voices Fawn in this amazing new TinkerBell movie. And she does such an amazing job!

Ginnifer is just so sweet and was a lot of fun to talk to. She talked several times of her son and you can just tell how much she loves him – and you can also tell she deals with the same struggles that mothers do. Celebrities are no different than us in that department, that’s for sure.

How does Ginnifer prepare differently for a voice acting role vs. something in film or TV?

This [TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast] was on the job training. I was completely unaware when I signed on it was gonna be so completely different. I did a little bit of voice work before, but nothing major. It’s entirely different ’cause I didn’t realize until I was doing it how much I control myself when I’m doing on-camera work. I can rely on the blink of an eye, literally, to express something, especially if it’s gonna be in film – you know, my face is gonna be the size of a school bus. [laughs] Suddenly, to have a project where I was relying solely on my voice, not having any idea what the animation of course was gonna look like – that was really challenging. I had to liberate myself. I had to find a way to let go of everything physically and find a grounded, real connected place from which to be larger than life. There’s a lot of things about my own voice that I always thought were very overly animated but I found out when my voice was actually animated that I can seem a bit dull and monotone and nasally. There’s all kinds of harsh judgments I could give myself but in redoing the first couple of passes that we made for the movie, I found that there was a way to find Fawn’s very expressive voice when I could let go of everything physically.

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How did Ginnifer deal with the emotion at the end of the movie?

I could really feel it. Every time I read the script, I cried my eyes out, every time we recorded it. I cried my eyes out every time I’ve seen it. At first I did react to it because I had a personal experience which was just – it’s a horrible story – but I had a dog that was accidentally put to sleep by a vet. No joke. There was a lawsuit. It was crazy. Like, literally, they accidentally put my dog, my completely healthy dog, to sleep. So, in the beginning when we started recording it, it kept triggering that of course, because Fawn’s being given an opportunity to say goodbye. But then as I played Fawn for 3 subsequent years, it did just start become about the scene itself and about Fawn’s relationship to Gruff. I’ve never had a problem being emotional.

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Playing one of the Disney Fairies, we wondered if she was familiar with them going into the film.

I’m a Disneyphile. I don’t know if that’s a word, but it is now. I’m a Disneyphile and I just always wanted to voice an Animated Feature for Disney. And I was familiar with the franchise. I hadn’t seen all the movies and then ripped through them when I got the role. I find them to be like these particular movies, and I’m shocked in the states are straight to video. I think they’re excellent. They appeal to all ages. This particular movie certainly appeals to both genders. They’re just so well done, the stories are so well told. The characters are flawed. The morals are evolved. They’re definitely messages I would want taught to my children.

What was Ginnifer’s favorite part of TinkerBell and the Legend of the NeverBeast?

The most fun I had was probably the animal noises scene just ’cause it was so out of my wheelhouse. I was studying YouTube videos trying to learn different animals.

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Since Fawn is the Animal Fairy, we wondered if she has any pets:

I do. I’ve had everything under the sun. I mean, literally. I had some hermit crabs named Romeo and Juliet. And they smelled really bad. I’ve had guinea pigs and hamsters and gerbils and every kind of furred, every kind of fish, and dogs, and cats. I was raised going to my grandmother’s farm all the time and we had pet roosters and miniature horses and goats. I now just have one cat because we live in a tiny apartment in Vancouver.

We asked what Ginnifer would like to do next:

I’d like to do more animation, for sure. I love making TV. People ask me a lot about TV versus movies, and as far as live action goes, I do prefer TV life and playing a character for a long period of time and growing and changing with her. I also think that outside of animation, TV is really the only place where people are taking risks. Right now, honestly, I want to be with my kid. I’ve had to have big heart to hearts with my representatives about – please don’t hate me – I don’t want to work on my Once Upon a Time hiatuses for the near future because I’m in my late 30s and I’m not gonna get this time back. So right now, it’s all about Mommy and Me classes.

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Courtney P.

I’m a 20-something stay-at-home mother and wife. I have an amazing husband, a beautiful daughter, two loving dogs, and a lazy cat. I wouldn’t change my life for anything! I love to read, listen to music, cook and blog!

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