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They used Selena Quintanilla's actual singing voice for the movie, and Jennifer Lopez just lip-synched.
Cotillard said she spent more than six months in this role, and the hardest part was learning how to sing like Piaf because it was so technical. It ultimately won her the Best Actress Oscar in 2008.
Osmond even sang this iconic song during Disney's Family Singalong special in April 2020.
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Clooney knew he wasn't the best singer, so he decided to have some fun with the producers: "They played it back and were hoping that if I heard it, I'd know it was terrible. It sounded like a cat being run over by a semi, but I wanted them to suffer a little more, so I said it was great." Clooney ultimately told them he was fine with lip-synching, so they hired Dan Tyminski to provide his character's vocals.
Haylie also guest-starred in a few episodes of Lizzie McGuire on the Disney Channel. She played Kate Sanders' equally mean cousin Amy.
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Plummer went into detail about the whole dubbing process on The Sound of Music: "It was very well done. The entrances and exits from the songs were my voice, and then they filled in — in those days, they were very fussy about matching voices in musicals."
Lee was an actor himself, voicing and singing for characters in more than a dozen Disney films, like Cinderella, Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, and The Jungle Book.
Andrea Robinson provided the singing voice for both Sister Act movies. She also sang "Athena's Song" in The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning.
You probably know Weaver best as Marcus Henderson in Smart Guy or as Michael Jackson in The Jacksons: An American Dream, but in the early '90s he was the uncredited singing voice for Young Simba.
Weaver revealed that Disney originally offered him $2 million to supply Young Simba's singing voice, but his mother knew the power of Disney and insisted on a royalties deal. They settled on $100,000 plus royalties, and over time he's made back well more than that initial $2 million.
Williams, who was the lead singer of Toto from 1986 to 1988 and from 2010 to 2019, worked on the soundtracks for dozens of movies, ranging from Pitch Perfect to The Goonies to Star Wars: Episode VI — Return of the Jedi. For The Lion King, he sang as Simba on "Hakuna Matata" and "Can You Feel the Love Tonight."
Loren Allred, whom you might recognize as a contestant on The Voice in the US in 2012, actually provided the character's vocals for the film.
Nixon started as a messenger girl at MGM. They wanted to groom her to become a star, but after they heard her singing voice, she became a "ghost" (basically anyone who did uncredited voice work for studios).
Her singing voice was used for Eliza Doolittle onscreen, and in 1964 she even played Doolittle herself in New York during the show's revival. She was a true legend and provided the vocals for several iconic movies, including Cinderella, The Sound of Music (she played Sister Sophia), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (singing for Marilyn Monroe), and even Mulan.
Nixon was ultimately threatened by Twentieth Century Fox to keep quiet about her voiceover work: “You always had to sign a contract that nothing would be revealed. ... They said, 'If anybody ever knows that you did any part of the dubbing for Deborah Kerr, we’ll see to it that you don’t work in town again.' Could you imagine? I was scared to death.”
After Wood filmed her part, the studio said that her voice wasn't good enough and it would be replaced (Wood apparently stormed out of the studio, fuming). As a result, instead of having the actor mimic the prerecorded singing voice, the roles were reversed: "I had to try to match her breath and pronunciation and the sound of her voice."
West Side Story went on to win Best Picture, along with nine other Oscars, in 1962. This was the first time Nixon felt like she deserved proper credit for her invisible labor: “The anonymity didn’t bother me until I sang Natalie Wood’s songs in West Side Story. Then I saw how important my singing was to the picture. I was giving my talent, and somebody else was taking the credit.” Soon after, it became customary for ghost singers to receive credit and royalties for their work.
Efron revealed that he was kind of blindsided when he found out that his voice wasn't featured: "In the first movie, after everything was recorded, my voice was not on them. I was not really given an explanation. It just kind of happened that way." He ultimately pushed to have his singing voice featured in the two sequels, and it was.