Irene Bedard, the voice of Pocahontas

Well, all 3 of us have different opinions and we are all entitled to them and when I said that I thought that Irene Bedard should have done both the speaking and singing voice of Pocahontas because she looked like Pocahontas and Judy Kuhn didn't, that was my opinion, right?

Judy Kuhn was actually cast BEFORE Bedard. She recorded the demo for "Colors of the Wind" that they used in their early presentation real while the film was still in storyboards. After countless singers auditioned and even having Irene audition to sing, they kept coming back to the fact that no one brought the same power to the song(s) that Kuhn did. Thus they went with the popular split speaking/singing casting thing from the 90's. Bedard did not have the voice range to sing those songs. Ultimately, Bedard was cast as the speaking voice due to the controversy that started stemming from white actors voicing Middle-Eastern characters in Aladdin. Before that there was talk at the studio about Julia Roberts voicing Pocahontas...Thank God that never happened.

Personally, I wish they had cast another singer for Smith. Mel Gibson was pretty mediocre on "If I Never Knew You", especially next to someone as trained as Kuhn. Perhaps with someone like Brian D'Arcy James singing in his stead, the song wouldn't have been cut.