Video STRANGE Requirements To Work As A Disney Princess

Working all the time can be a bore--but not when you’re working at Disneyland, the happiest place on earth. While this job surely can’t be boring, that doesn’t mean it’s all smooth sailing. It takes a lot to be a Disney princess, and the most difficult is making all of this look easy.

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7. Stay Likeable
Okay so you’re not literally on a stage playing to millions of people, but you kind of are if you’re a Disney princess. Instead of having that barrier between you and the audience like at a concert, you instead are face to face with fans who only know the stage version of you. And unlike a musician who can play their set and leave, you have to interact with crowds. In turn, you need to be likeable, there just isn’t any way around it. Possess the skills to please a crowd and it not only makes it a better experience for the visitors, but it makes your job easier, too. Anyone who’s ever had to work in customer service knows this isn’t always an easy thing. Plus, at Disney, you have a minimum quota to fill of the amount of people you talk to.

6. Endure the Weather
Working at a theme park means having to endure all sorts of weather conditions since you’ll be outside most of the time. This means working summer during the way as well as working those winter nights. And all you really have to shelter you from the climate is what you’re given as a costume. There will be times you might not even get to wear a jacket when it’s too cold especially if photos of you will be taken that day and apparently pictures of a princess with any difference in their outfit could result in smaller sales of those photos. So if you’re easily susceptible to the weather, maybe being a princess isn’t for you.

5. Always Be Available
Trying to work at Disney is already competitive enough, not to mention trying to be a princess where the slots are even fewer. That being said, remember that these parks are places where the majority of people go during a holiday. That means actors must be available for these high traffic times, so don’t expect a whole lot of time off during the summers and winter holidays especially.

4. No Talking About Work
One of the rules of working as a Disney princess is that you can’t talk about work. You’re just not allowed to. So while you spent lots of time doing your makeup and training and looking fabulous in your princess dress, you’re not allowed to discuss any of those things to anyone outside of work--and that includes other things as well, such as drama any drama going down. This is one reason people in the cast get super close to one another since no one else really understands what it’s like working the jobs they do. The only times you ever hear about thing happening behind the scenes is after a cast member as left their job.

3. Making Friends is Difficult
That being said, while these cast members are one of the few people that know what you’re going through, it can still be a competitive environment and sometimes that can turn hostile. Everyone is working to do the same thing and in a creative environment that relies a lot on not only beauty but skills, there have been former Disney princesses that complained of the strange high school environment that takes place with the small amount of people that work there in such a small community.

2. Dealing With Creepy Fans
Any time you’re a celebrity, or in this case, portraying a famous figure, you’re going to be met with some really sweet fans who look up to you--like the millions of little kids that visit Disneyland and Disney World who want a glimpse of their movie heroes. And then you have the other side of the spectrum, the creeps who just don’t know what boundaries are. A former Snow White princess dishes that when she worked as a princess, a man who came in on Saturdays noticed she was the only Snow White with brown eyes, vowing to get rid of all the imposter Snow Whites so that they could be together. She told security and he had his pass revoked, but that story’s just to give you an idea of what some of these actresses have to go through all the time.

Don’t Forget To Smile
If you’re working at the “happiest place on Earth” that means you need to always be smiling. It’s said that the company doesn’t like it when actors are seen not smiling--at least when they’re not doing some skit where they pretend to be annoyed for a second at their co-stars. But other than that, Disney princesses must always look happy to be there. Former Disney princesses have made comments on how at the end of the day, sometimes their faces would hurt from all the smiling they had to do. Couple that with the fact cameras will be on you at all -times in some way or another, there’s really no escaping it.