Trending badgeTrendingPosted 2 hours agoSubscribe to Screen Time NewsletterCaret Down50 Interesting Behind-The-Scenes Facts About '90s Disney MoviesAn animator from A Goofy Movie got the boot because he was too obsessed with Paula Abdul to focus on his work!by Kristen HarrisBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot TopicðŸ"¥ Full coverage and conversation on Disney One of the best things to come out of the '90s is the Disney Renaissance (though it technically started with The Little Mermaid in 1989). So many of the most beloved animated films came out during this era, including my childhood favorites â€" Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. Here are 50 interesting facts about '90s Disney movies: 1. Beauty and the Beast screenwriter Linda Woolverton and lyricist Howard Ashman had to fight for Belle to break the typical Disney princess mold. Linda told Entertainment Weekly, "Howard and I wanted to make a sea change in the Disney heroine. Together, we conjured up Belle, who loved to read. She was unconscious about her beauty. She had dreams of faraway places, and she wasn't a victim; she's not sitting around waiting for anybody to rescue her or [for] a prince to come. We, of course, came into a lot of pushback about it. There was a template of what a Disney heroine should be: taking all of this abuse, smiling and talking to little animals through it all. That's not what I felt the world needed. I used to rail about it, honestly. I didn't make myself very popular." Disney / Via Disney+ 2. Belle and the Beast's chemistry came from the chemistry between their voice actors. Paige O'Hara, who voiced Belle, told the Hollywood Reporter, "Robby [Benson] and I would record our lines standing right next to each other. They don't usually allow that because it's technically more complicated and more expensive. It takes more time. But the outcome was certainly worth the time, as they all admitted later. The relationship between Belle and Beast was so much more poignant." Disney / Via Disney+ BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicObsessed with all things Disney? Join our fan community where you'll find hot topic discussions, quizzes, movie news, and more!See our Disney Discussions Robby Benson, who voiced Beast, added, "We played it as if we were shooting a feature. Even though it was an animated feature, these characters were very real to us. I know how actor-y and silly that might sound, but we wanted to bring these characters to life." Tibrina Hobson / FilmMagic / Via Getty 3. After the Beast's transformation, Belle almost asked him, "Do you think you can grow a beard?" O'Hara ad-libbed the line while recording, but it was cut from the final version of the film. However, Emma Watson's Belle posed the question to Prince Adam in the live-action remake. Disney / Via Disney+ 4. Beauty and the Beast was the first animated movie ever nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars. However, some film actors were extremely unhappy about its nomination. For example, when Sally Field introduced it at the awards show, she made a crack about there being "no actors onscreen" and said, "We members of the Screen Actors Guild hope this doesn't become a trend." Disney / Via Disney+ O'Hara told the Hollywood Reporter, "The wise Angela Lansbury said, 'Don't listen to any of that. We know how wonderful this movie is.'" Disney / Via Disney+ Co-director Kirk Wise added, "There were a couple of snide remarks that Ms. Field made and Shirley MacLaine made. Something to the effect of 'real actors' versus 'animated actors.' I thought it was kind of a cheap shot. Interestingly enough, a year later, I ended up directing Sally as a voice in a movie that I was a producer on, a live-action film called Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey. She played Sassy the cat. I never brought it up." Disney / Via Disney+ 5. Toy Story was the first fully computer-animated feature film, earning it a Special Achievement Academy Award. It was also Pixar's first movie. Pixar / Via Disney+ Pixar co-founder Ed Catmull told TIME, "At that point, none of us knew what we were doing. We didn't have any production expertise except for short films and commercials. So we were all complete novices. But there was something fresh about nobody knowing what the hell we were doing." Pixar / Via Disney+ 6. Since Pixar's software was so new, there were obviously limits to what it could animate. It was great for geometric shapes, but made organic shapes look plastic, so toys were the perfect main characters for their debut film. Pixar / Via Disney+ Initially, they tried to avoid animating people, but eventually, they felt the need to add Andy and others in frame. Pixar / Via Disney+ 7. Originally, Woody was very different. Instead of a pull-string doll, he was a ventriloquist dummy, and he also had a very different demeanor. Animator Ralph Eggleston told the San Francisco Chronicle, "The character of Woody was really abrasive and unlikeable in the way he was being presented. In the guise of attempting to mak