Beauty and the Beast wowed us all when it was released a few months ago, with some of the best scenes being those that weren't part of the animated original.
One particularly acclaimed addition was the greater backstory given to the Beast and his life as the Prince, with one scene showcasing a brand new song too.
However, director Bill Condon has revealed that the 'Days in the Sun' sequence, in which we see the Prince and his mother singing, originally went slightly differently.
As he explains, the original cut had the mother singing to her son in bed – before it cut to her years later as she lay dead in bed, and an older Prince being dragged away.
However, this caused some confusion in test screenings when audiences mistook the actress playing the mother, Harriet Jones, for the Enchantress who put the curse on the beast, played by Hattie Morahan, as they looked similar.
Thus, they re-shot the scene with just the mother dead in bed with brunette hair, which meant that the Prince sung the song. This led producers to re-cast the boy, as his role had become a singing part.
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Beauty and the Beast's record-breaking run shows no signs of ending, as it recently entered the top 10 highest-grossing movies of all time.
The picture has now taken in a whopping $1.2218 billion, just behind movies like Frozen, Harry Potter and Avengers.
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