Kelly Macdonald and Kevin McKidd, two of the stars of Disney/Pixar’s eagerly anticipated new animated film Brave, recently attended Disney’s D23 Expo and talked about their characters.

Macdonald is, of course, the voice of the heroine, Merida and McKidd gets to voice two characters, both Lord MacGuffin and his son.

Brave is the story of Scottish princess, Merida, who defies her parents by persuing an interest in archery, but inadvertently jeopardizes her father’s kingdom in the process.

In addition to Macdonald and McKidd, the cast includes Emma Thompson, Robbie Coltraine, Julie Walters, Craig Ferguson and Billy Connolly. May I just say that I will be first in line to sit in a theater and listen to all of those Scots accents (I’m particularly stoked to hear McKidd as the younger MacGuffin whose accent is supposed to be so thick as to be unintelligible *swoon*, not to mention just listen to his normally accented voice *thud*) add in the gorgeous scenery and the images we’ve seen so far, (most merely ‘concept art’) not to mention what I can only assume will be another beautiful score from Patrick Doyle and I’ll be in seventh heaven.  I really don’t see how this one can miss whether I’m there or not.

Brave will open in the US and Canada on June 22, 2012 and in the UK on 12 August, 2012.