Once Upon a Time: Two Frozen Characters Cast for Season 4

According to TVLine's Matt Webb Mitovich, newcomer Elizabeth Lail has been cast as Anna, Elsa's younger sister, for Once Upon a Time's upcoming fourth season. Scott Michael Foster has been cast as Kristoff, while the role of Elsa hasn't been cast yet. Here's an excerpt from the article, which gives some details on Lail and Foster's roles:

Once‘s Anna is described as a fun-loving, fearless optimist who often gets herself into situations where she is in over her head, yet is able to triumph due to her resourcefulness and can-do spirit. She values her relationship with her sister Elsa above all else.

Kristoff meanwhile is a hearty, salt-of-the-earth ice cutter whose sometimes-gruff demeanor can hide his deep love for Anna and her sister Elsa. When we first meet him on Once, he is adjusting to life at the castle — including sleeping indoors for the first time in his life.

Link to the full article:Once Upon a Time Season 4: Scott Michael Foster Cast as Kristoff, Elizabeth Lail as Anna | TVLine



My thoughts: As I discussed in my review of the season 3 finale (My thoughts on episode 3x21 “Snow Drifts” and episode 3x22 “There's No Place Like Home”), I wasn't happy at all that the show was going to be incorporating characters from Frozen into the show, mostly because I think the movie is too new for them to be featuring it on the show. I feel like the creators deciding to do that strongly implies that they don't really have a long-term plan for the show and that they're just making things up as they go along. I also hadn't seen Frozen yet at that point in time, but I've seen the movie since then, and I absolutely loved it.

I'll admit that I've warmed up to the fact that the show will be incorporating elements from Frozen into the show a little bit, but I'm still not all that crazy about the whole thing. That being said, the fact that Scott Michael Foster has been cast as Kristoff has gotten me a little bit more excited about the show doing Frozen. I've been a huge fan of Scott's ever since he was on Greek, and both he as an actor and his character Cappie were always two of my favorite things about the show. Honestly, I think he kind of looks like the way Kristoff looked the movie. I'm sure that Scott will do a great job of playing the role. As for Elizabeth Lail being cast as Anna, I've never even heard of her until now, so I can't really comment on that casting news.