Watch: SNL Skit's 'Frozen II Deleted Scene' Takes on Diversity, Disney Princesses

Kilian Melloy READ TIME: 3 MIN.

Sometimes wish that Disney princesses were cut from a wider variety of sparkly cloth? So does SNL, which lambasted the Magic Kingdom in a skit that envisioned a "deleted scene" from "Frozen II" in which Elsa knocks down the closet door.

The spoof begins as an advertisement, voiced by an unseen male announcer, for the impending home video release of the film. Then a supposed "deleted scene" begins to play.

Kate McKinnon plays a (live-action) version of Elsa, who comes gliding and twirling into view, lost in the enchanted forest and calling out, "Anna? Kristoff? Olaf? I'm Gay? Is anyone there?"

Elsa's sister Anna, played in the skit by Cecily Strong, comes running in, and the sisters reunite, as Anna notes, "We heard you calling! This enchanted forest is so disorienting."

Agrees Elsa: "It sure does. I don't know whether we're heading North, South, Gay, or West."

"Did you say 'gay?' " inquires Anna.

"No!" Elsa replies, waving her hands dismissively. "I'm not saying anything."

Elsa then pokes fun at so-called "traditional marriage" – the specific mores of which have changed considerably since the film's 19th-century setting – by telling Krista, "You have a fulfilling heterosexual marriage at the age of 18, and I just spent two whole movies playing with snow."

Adds Elsa, to audience laughter, "Both are equal and good."

Music to one of the film's songs starts up just then, with Anna bursting into a reassuring rendition of: "We all know, we all know. We've all known since you were a tween when you dressed as Brienne of Tarth on three separate Halloweens!"

An image of the formidable female "Game of Thrones" character, played by 6'3" British actress Gwendoline Christie, appears as Anna sings.

Anna goes on to express the sentiment that "I don't care," while Elsa insists, "The lack of any romantic interest doesn't bother me anyway."

"Whoa! Not sure I'm comfortable with that!!" the commercial's male announcer resumes. "If Elsa's gay, she could turn my son gay, right? With her powers?"

The line mocks the longtime (and scientifically discredited) assumption by those who lobby against full legal equality for sexual minorities that being gay is a "choice," or is in some way "contagious."

The announcer than invites the viewer to watch another scene, this one "featuring a new original song!"

Picking up where the previous "deleted scene" left off, the new scene shows Kristoff (played by JJ Watt) arriving and announcing that a stuffed reindeer is "my best friend."

Rushing over to Kristoff, Anna declares, "You know what I love about you most, Kristoff?"

"That I'm poor so you can control me?" Kristoff askes.

"No!" Anna says. "No, it's that you're sensitive! Sing your 'original new song' for us, won't you?"

At that, Kristoff belts out "Big and Woke," a tune in which he promises, as a "new kind of prince," that he "won't kiss you while you're asleep."

The clip then goes on to examine "how they dealt with the criticism that 'Frozen' was too white," at which point several soldiers arrive – including an African American character named Mattias, played by Kenan Thompson, who notes of himself that he is living "in Norway, in 1840," before going on to assert that he lives alone," in rural Norway before busting into a refrain of "How do you solve a problem like Matthias?" – borrowed, incidentally, from a very different musical.

The song goes on, briefly, to question the story logic of the character.

Kristoff offers, "At least we made this 'Frozen' world diverse!"

"Oh yes," Matthias snorts. "It's a real rainbow of colors now!"

The film's overall plot then comes in for a ribbing, with Elsa offering a garbled version of what's supposed to happen next and urging the others to hurry up and get going.

"But we can't leave without Olaf!" cried Anna.

"Don't worry!" cries Olaf, played by Kyle Mooney, as he charges into the scene. The living snowman now sports what Kristoff notes is a "second carrot," before suggesting that the group abandon Olaf.

"I love carrots!" a voiceover exclaims, as the camera pushes in on the large fake reindeer.

Watch the clip below.


by Kilian Melloy , EDGE Staff Reporter

Kilian Melloy serves as EDGE Media Network's Associate Arts Editor and Staff Contributor. His professional memberships include the National Lesbian & Gay Journalists Association, the Boston Online Film Critics Association, The Gay and Lesbian Entertainment Critics Association, and the Boston Theater Critics Association's Elliot Norton Awards Committee.

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