Meet Merida, the latest addition to the Disney Dream Portrait series by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz. Playing the role of the Scottish princess from “Brave” is Jessica Chastain, who received two Oscar nominations for her roles in “The Help” and “Zero Dark Thirty.”
The caption for the image is “Where your destiny awaits,” and it highlights Merida’s love for archery as she sits atop her horse. And that hair. So. Much. Hair.
Chastain is the most recent celebrity to play the role of a Disney character in the series, but quite a few notable names have preceded her. Taylor Swift let her hair down as Rapunzel, Russell Brand brandished his hook as the eponymous Captain Hook, and Olivia Wilde and Queen Latifah portrayed Disney villainesses in earlier portraits.
Other characters represented in the ad campaign are Cinderella (Scarlett Johansson), Pocahantas (Jessica Biel), Tiana (Jennifer Hudson), Ariel (Julianne Moore), Belle and the Beast (Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges), and Alice and the Mad Hatter (Beyonce and Oliver Platt), to name a few.
This new image will debut in the February issue of “O-The Oprah Magazine.”
(via Disney Parks Blog)