# The 1996 role Demi Moore knew she couldn’t go all the way with: “You’d better get someone else”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-1996-role-demi-moore-knew-she-couldnt-go-all-the-way-with-youd-better-get-someone-else/
- Published: 2026-11-13T01:30:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-13T02:26:39+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/1996-role-demi-moore-knew-she-couldnt-go-all-the-way-with/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Demi Moore voiced Esmeralda but did not sing her songs.
- Heidi Mollenhauer provided the singing voice.
- Moore helped match the singer’s voice to her own.

## Summary

Demi Moore voiced Esmeralda in Disney’s 1996 animated film *The Hunchback of Notre Dame*, but declined to sing the character’s songs when she realised they were beyond her abilities. Composer Stephen Schwartz recalled Moore telling the team, “You’d better get someone else”; singer Heidi Mollenhauer then performed the songs, including “God Help the Outcasts”.

The article places the role among Moore’s varied 1996 projects, which also included *Striptease*, *The Juror* and *Beavis and Butt-Head Do America*. It says Moore recorded enough material to help match her husky voice to Mollenhauer’s, who was brought in as a ghost singer. Mollenhauer’s work went uncredited in the film and, according to the article, remains her only movie singing credit.

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