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‘Frozen’ star Idina Menzel to Ukrainian girl singing ‘Let It Go’: ‘We see you’

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After a video of a Ukrainian baby singing “Let It Go” in a bomb shelter went viral on social media, the little lady has obtained an encouraging message from none apart from Elsa herself, Idina Menzel.

On Sunday night time, the “Frozen” star responded to the transferring clip, which has been considered greater than 13.8 million occasions on Twitter alone. Within the video, a younger lady with a protracted braid of blond hair — identical to the snow queen’s — sings the “Frozen” anthem in Russian to a bomb shelter filled with civilians below siege in the course of the Russian invasion.

“We see you,” Menzel tweeted, together with blue and yellow coronary heart emojis representing the nationwide colours of Ukraine. “We actually, actually see you.”

Hours earlier, Josh Gad — who voices Olaf the snowman within the wildly fashionable “Frozen” franchise — tweeted his emotional response to the bomb shelter footage as properly.

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“My coronary heart is overwhelmed,” the Disney actor wrote. “These poor youngsters. These poor individuals. I wish to hug and shield this and each different baby in peril proper now and I really feel helpless.”

Menzel and Gad’s responses got here a day earlier than Kristen Anderson-Lopez — who wrote the Oscar-winning “Frozen” earworm together with her husband and artistic associate, Robert Lopez — despatched like to the “little lady with the gorgeous voice” by way of Twitter.

“My husband and I wrote this music as a part of a narrative about therapeutic a household in ache,” Anderson-Lopez tweeted Monday.

“The best way you sing it is sort of a magic trick that spreads the sunshine in your coronary heart and heals everybody who hears it. Preserve singing! We’re listening!”

The “Frozen” household are amongst varied leisure figures who’ve voiced their assist for Ukraine since Russian President Vladimir Putin unleashed his army forces on the nation final month. Kristen Bell — who voices Elsa’s youthful sister Anna within the movies — lately posted a collection of blue and yellow coronary heart emojis in solidarity with Ukraine.

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“A sovereign European nation is being attacked & harmless individuals are dying for no cause apart from a despotic chief determined he misses the glory days of Russia,” Gad tweeted the day Putin launched his invasion.

“Subsequently, there isn’t any world during which any political chief or human being ought to have a look at this & go ‘yay. Good job.’”

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