Pocahontas is 18 in the film but in real life, she was much younger when she met Jon Smith. Roy Disney said that it made a more dramatic telling of the story since they could work a romantic angle with an older character.
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POCAHONTAS
Pocahontas is 18 in the film but in real life, she was much younger when she met Jon Smith. Roy Disney said that it made a more dramatic telling of the story since they could work a romantic angle with an older character.