Kevin Mckidd was especially happy to take on this role because it was the first time that he would be able to use his natural speaking voice for a role and it gave him the chance to speak the misunderstood dialect of Doric which is spoken in the north east of Scotland that his grandfather spoke in.
Merida’s father Fergus is voiced by Billy Connolly, and her mother Elinor is voiced by Emma Thompson whose mother is Scottish.Īll three of clan leaders were Scottish with Robbie Coltrane (Hagrid from Harry Potter) voicing Lord Dingwall, Kevin Mckidd voicing the Lord and young MacGuffin and Craig Ferguson voicing Lord Macintosh. Merida is voiced by Kelly Macdonald, originally Reese Witherspoon was going to voice Merida but she had to decline the offer due to time conflicts it would have created with other work. This is, currently in 2017, the only Pixar feature film where the protagonist is a female, she is also the first and only non Disney character to be included in the Princess line.īrave is set in Scotland so obviously you would pick Scottish people to voice the characters and that it was the Pixar team has done. The story was inspired by Brenda Chapman’s relationship with her own daughter Emma. Merida refuses and with the help of a witches spell, she changes her mums view on the situation, just not in the way she expected she would.
Set in Scotland in the 1000’s, the story follows the teenage Princess Merida who is being forced to pick a husband by her mother and father. Brave is the 12th Pixar film which was released in 2012.
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