How the 'Aladdin' remake redefines a Disney princess with Naomi Scott's Jasmine
LOS ANGELES - Growing up in England, Naomi Scott, like so many other young girls, fell in love at an early age with Disney's animated heroines - particularly Mulan, Pocahontas and Jasmine from "Aladdin." But while those three are officially part of Disney's juggernaut princess line of media franchises and toys, alongside the likes of Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, Belle and Ariel, it wasn't their ostensible princess-y trappings that enthralled Scott. It was something deeper.
"I just gravitated toward the characters as opposed to the princess side of it," Scott said on a recent afternoon in a Beverly Hills hotel suite, wrapped in a white bathrobe at the end of a long day of interviews to promote Disney's new live-action remake of "Aladdin," in which she plays
