For most kids growing up in the 1990s, their first on-screen exposure to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan would likely have been through Disney’s 1953 animated adaptation. Disney takes on classic stories have tended to become the penultimate versions that audiences come to associate with the original tales themselves. As a company, Disney has done a great deal of “adopting” some of these characters as its own. Such is the case for characters like Tinker Bell, the sassy sprite and close confidant of Peter Pan. Tinker Bell has become a mascot for Disney, flying across the company’s logos over the years, and being a co-presenter to Walt Disney on the Disneyland TV show back in the 1950s.Tinker Bell’s movie characterization was cemented in Disney’s animated form until the release of director Steven Spielberg’s Hook in 1991, when Julia Roberts appeared as an equally spunky, speaking Tink. However, she would not have been the first actress to embody a real-life version of the character in modern cinema. Actress Margaret Kerry served as the animation reference model that made Walt Disney Studios’ iteration iconic.When Disney was creating an animated version of Barrie’s 1904 stage play (and subsequent novel), Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, the studio put out a casting call for actresses to use as a reference model for Peter Pan’s fairy sidekick, Tinker Bell. In an interview on the podcast Skywalking Through Neverland, Kerry talks about her audition process for the non-speaking character. During her audition, she was asked to silently act out the scene where Tinker Bell sees herself in a human-sized mirror. “You will notice that she is not preening. I played her as if she was seeing herself for the first time. I figured — why would they have a mirror in Neverland? So that’s what she’s doing, and she’s almost saying out loud ‘Oh, I’m cute!”. . . and then get[s] upset about her hips being too large as far as she’s concerned.” Kerry’s ability to think on her feet and add her own originally and spin on the direction she received won her the part.
For most kids growing up in the 1990s, their first on-screen exposure to J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan would likely have been through Disney’s 1953 animated adaptation. Disney takes on classic stories have tended to become the penultimate versions that audiences come to associate with the original tales themselves. As a company, Disney has done a great deal of “adopting” some of these characters as its own. Such is the case for characters like Tinker Bell, the sassy sprite and close confidant of Peter Pan. Tinker Bell has become a mascot for Disney, flying across the company’s logos over the years, and being a co-presenter to Walt Disney on the Disneyland TV show back in the 1950s.
Tinker Bell’s movie characterization was cemented in Disney’s animated form until the release of director Steven Spielberg’s Hook in 1991, when Julia Roberts appeared as an equally spunky, speaking Tink. However, she would not have been the first actress to embody a real-life version of the character in modern cinema. Actress Margaret Kerry served as the animation reference model that made Walt Disney Studios’ iteration iconic.
When Disney was creating an animated version of Barrie’s 1904 stage play (and subsequent novel), Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up, the studio put out a casting call for actresses to use as a reference model for Peter Pan’s fairy sidekick, Tinker Bell. In an interview on the podcast Skywalking Through Neverland, Kerry talks about her audition process for the non-speaking character. During her audition, she was asked to silently act out the scene where Tinker Bell sees herself in a human-sized mirror. “You will notice that she is not preening. I played her as if she was seeing herself for the first time. I figured — why would they have a mirror in Neverland? So that’s what she’s doing, and she’s almost saying out loud ‘Oh, I’m cute!”. . . and then get[s] upset about her hips being too large as far as she’s concerned.” Kerry’s ability to think on her feet and add her own originally and spin on the direction she received won her the part.
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