Pin for Later: 21 Disney Prince Facts You Never Knew as a Kid Prince Naveen is the only prince to have a non-American accent. He is from the fictional kingdom of Maldonia, and voice actor Bruno Campos ad-libbed the accent as a combination of Portuguese and French.
The character Prince Naveen from Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" is a fictional character, and his ethnicity is depicted as Maldonian, which is a fictional country in the movie. Maldonia is not associated with any real-world ethnicity or race.
Maldonia is a fictional country mentioned in The Princess and the Frog. It is where Prince Naveen, his mother, father, brother and the rest of the ruling family were born. The name is a portmanteau of the real-life countries of the Maldives and North Macedonia.
What accent does the prince have in Princess and the Frog?
Interestingly, Disney chose to write Prince Naveen, Tiana's true love, as Middle Eastern/South Asian-ish, and he's voiced by Bruno Campos, a Brazilian-born actor who grew up in the States.
She has a Southern-Cajun drawl, which, in Disney's defense, is probably what a girl born and raised in New Orleans, as Tiana supposedly has been, would sound like.
prince naveen being 3/3 of my iconic disney prince lineup (and the best disney prince period)
What ethnicity is Tiana?
Henn was inspired by studio employee Jaimie Milner, a film intern who was working in post production. The fact that Tiana is African American was "never a big issue" for Henn when it came to animating her, but drawing her as both a human and a frog proved difficult.
Meanwhile, Naveen, the spoiled and arrogant prince of Maldonia, arrives in New Orleans, where, being financially cut off from his family's fortune by his parents, he intends to marry the rich Southern belle Charlotte La Bouff, Tiana's best friend.
Naveen is the eldest prince of Maldonia, who prides himself in being charming and handsome. While visiting New Orleans, Naveen was transformed into a frog by a wicked witch doctor.
Eventually, Tiana fell in love with Prince Naveen and married him where Eudora accepted her relationship with the prince and looked happy to see Tiana had found someone she wanted to spend the rest of her life with.
In French "facile" (in other Romance languages it is written in the same way, but pronounced differently) means "easy", then "Facilier" could be "the one that makes things easy", using magic. Bruce Smith describes Facilier as the love child of the Disney Villains Captain Hook and Cruella De Vil.
The Fenner Brothers told Tiana she was "outbid" by someone, but considering it's unlikely that someone would bid on the mill in the same week Tiana placed her bid after twenty years of it being untouched, it is possible the Brothers just made that up in an attempt to avoid selling it to her.
Even though he spends much of his film as a frog, Prince Naveen leaves a lasting impression as one of the most handsome and interesting Disney princes.
Tiana is another one of the oldest Disney princesses, though that's the case at only 19. Although her story ended in romance like most other Disney princesses, her main prize throughout the movie was furthering her career by opening a restaurant.
As mentioned under Genius Bonus on the film's YMMV page, the spell changes Naveen and Tiana into different species of frog, because they're of different ethnicities — Tiana becomes an American green tree frog (Hyla cinerea), while Naveen is turned into a southern leopard frog (Lithobates sphenocephalus).
Lawrence disguised as Naveen. In the resulting chaos following the two frogs' getting launched into the ball, Lawrence and Facilier see the transformed Naveen and Tiana float away with a few balloons then scurry off to the guest house to check whether or not Naveen was still there, only to discover the jar being empty.
Prince Naveen hails from the fictional land of Maldonia and is voiced by a Brazilian actor; Disney says that he is not white. “Disney obviously doesn't think a black man is worthy of the title of prince,” Angela Bronner Helm wrote March 19 on the site.
At some point, James was possibly killed in action (K.I.A.) during the war, so he probably never got to see Tiana get her restaurant. As shown briefly in the film, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (given for extreme gallantry and risk of life in actual combat with an armed enemy force).
Tricky and manipulative, he strikes up a deal with Prince Naveen to make his dreams come true – for a price. But his “friends on the other side” get the better of Dr. Facilier in the end.
