For H.E.R., it was seeing herself represented in a Disney princess ... "There's no Filipino princesses, so to be a Black and Filipino Belle is huge. It's been a long time coming, and I'm happy ...

she proclaims. "I will find you something worthy of a princess." “Oh, I’m not a princess,” Belle retorts. Welcome to the future, where Disney princesses, er, heroines are not confined to a ...

she was invested in the idea of giving Belle agency and power. “When Linda Woolverton wrote the script for the animated feature, she took responsibility for elevating the Disney princess by ...