James Marsden plays the ultimate fairy tale prince in “Enchanted,” and costume designer Mona May told Apparel News that his look needed more than just butt padding to get right. “What was interesting about his character too was to make his body, his physique, appear, again, animated,” she said. “We actually built a chest pad for him, so the chest was also padded, so you get this roundness of the chest and again a small waist. We also gave him a butt pad and crotch enhancement.”
Butt pads and crotch enhancement? For a Disney movie? According to May, it was all about making his character seem like a slightly absurd animated character brought into the real world: “He really had this very kind of animated, cartoony physique. Stately, prince, puffed. His hair was puffy, the sleeves were puffy, the chest was puffy. He really looks ridiculous every time he walks to the street, and meanwhile he’s also singing.”
