BTS: Shooting the Cast of Frozen for Vanity Fair

After earning over $1.2 billion around the world and becoming a cultural phenomenon, Disney’s Frozen will soon be reborn as a Broadway musical. Photographer Andrew Eccles was tasked by Vanity Fair to capture portraits of the cast, and the 1-minute video above is a behind-the-scenes look at the photo shoot.

Eccles photographed actors Caissie Levy, Patti Murin and Jelani Alladin, who play Elsa, Anna, and Kristoff, respectively. The location he chose was in Colorado’s Arapaho National Forest looking out into a lake.

Here’s one of the photos that resulted:

#Frozen is coming to Broadway! The extravagant reimagining of the 2013 animated film will enrich the familiar original with some poetic new ideas and "more gravitas," according to director Michael Grandage. Find out more in V.F.'s latest issue as we go inside @Disney's latest stage adaptation (link in bio). Photograph by Andrew @Eccles.

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An in case you’re wondering, the team aimed to leave no footprint behind in the course of the shoot.

“The airborne snow effects used are primarily potato starch-based and are completely biodegradable,” the production says. “The cotton snow blankets placed on the ground and rocks were removed after the shoot, which followed ‘no impact’ guidelines throughout.”

(via Disney on Broadway via ISO 1200)