 well-known already as an actress and I had done the shining and I was filming Popeye and I had brought along and a book of antique illustrated fairy tales with me Grimm's fairy tales to the location which was on the island of Malta and I figured I would definitely have time to read a book I didn't have time to read the whole book of fairy tales but I was reading the Frog Prince one day and thought that Robin Williams would just make a great frog