Har några regissörer gått på rekord och förklarar varför de valde att kasta en berömd musiker i en musikalisk film och inte få dem att sjunga?

Jag hittade ingenting om Taylor Swift, men följande länk hänvisar till en intervju med Idina Menzel om hennes roll i Enchanted och varför hon inte sjöng ...

Hon sa när han frågade:

"It's a compliment really that everybody misses my singing. Nancy was never written with a song, honestly, so I think Kevin was a fan of mine and honestly it was a compliment to be asked to just be hired on my acting talents alone."

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Tyvärr kunde jag inte hitta några intervjuer från Kevin Lima själv ...

... Men jag hittade en intervju på AnimatedViews.com:

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Och detta nämnde från Chris Chase, Enchanted : s verkställande producent, talade om Idina Menzel och hon blev inte gjuten för att sjunga i filmen:

AV: Indina Menzel is a very famous Broadway singer in shows such as Wicked, but in Enchanted she doesn’t sing. Why’s that?

CC: We cast as an actress. That was one of the interesting things. A lot of people have asked us. They know her so well as a singer and they kind of wonder why would we cast her if her main purpose was not to sing. Kevin and I are both fans of her from Rent and from Wicked, and we’ve seen her in other things and we just thought she was a wonderful actress and she felt like the perfect New Yorker. Just like the contrast between Andalasia and, say, Times Square in New York, we wanted a contrast between Giselle, who was a princess from Andalasia and the woman who was quintessentially “New York”. So, it ultimately felt to us that she was the perfect New Yorker.

AV: In an early version of the film, didn’t she have a song?

CC: Yes. We had discussed a song that might at the end of the movie, between her and the Prince. You know what? With a different structure of the movie, it would have been a great thing. But, ultimately, the movie just couldn’t be longer. The movie couldn’t support it because she’s not the main character. It’s really not a movie about her. I would love to do another movie which is about her, because I’d love to have her in a movie where she sings! But that’s the kind of hard choice that Kevin always has to make. Sometimes, you have to let things go that are wonderful things and you want to find a place for them, but, you know, you have to stay true to the movie. The movie tells what it needs.

Jag tror att det är säkert att anta att det vanligtvis är en viktig orsak till att kända musiker kastas i icke-sjungande roller (även om det är något de flesta regissörer skulle förmodligen avstå från att säga): Berömda musiker kan förväntas dra en viss antal tittare - ofta från en demografisk film som inte annars skulle attrahera filmen.