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

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.