 well known already as an actress and I had done The Shining and I was filming Popeye and I had brought along 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