Not to knock the passions of other Disney princesses, but being obsessed with forks, your hair, and even fighting in a war against the Huns were all a little less relatable to us growing up. Watching ...

The actress is featured in a new video talking about making bringing Belle to life Ale Russian is a contributing writer at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has appeared in ...

As children, we all have big dreams. For H.E.R., it was seeing herself represented in a Disney princess, which she now gets to realize for herself and millions of little girls around the world as ...

When Emma Watson went to see the first cut of Beauty and the Beast in London she took along two important women in her life – her mum and the activist Gloria Steinem, one of her feminist heroes. The ...

Emily Ahrens keeps two photographs on her dressing room mirror in the lower level of the NorShor Theatre, a prep space away from home for her three-month stint rehearsing for and playing Belle in the ...

Forget Harry Potter's Hermione Granger, nowadays Emma Watson is known for being a badass feminist ambassador – so it's no surprise that the actress has given Belle's backstory a feminist twist in ...

There are more than seven live action Disney princess movies and 13 animated films (not including their sequels) in Disney’s expansive fairy tale portfolio. Read on for a full list of every official ...

There are a few pop culture figures that not only defined our childhoods, but truly served as a zeitgeist of our culture. Disney is responsible for a good portion of them. Almost every Gen X and ...