Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26855145-20150928233350/@comment-25926288-20150929004831

Well, Frozen and Brave are Disney inserts and not often really characters. Think of them as walking advertisement. Can only do so much with Elsa in her limited role. They weren't allowed to change her one bit so that would get old and also they would clog up the flow of the narrative because then it becomes the problem of juggling many.

People argue large cast, large cast, but the only cast they can juggle are their 7 person cast and they can barely manage that (Looking at Sleeeping Beauty and I'm not talking about Aurora, but Belle).

Those charatcers are usually temporary main characters or secondary characters as opposed to background. If you have too many secondary main characters soemtimes they won't be distributed to anyone's preference and then it plays into actor availability. Easier to get the actor at a set time, rather then one scene here and then one scene two weeks from now and rinse and repeat. Rather have one actor to do that with than 10 or 15.