The actress has recognized that this heroic moment of her character was not as easy to shoot as it seems.
There are scenes that seem very simple when seen on the big screen, but when they have to be shot they become a bit complicated. And if not, tell them Halle Bailey, the actress in charge of giving life to Ariel in the new version of The little mermaid, who had one of her worst moments while filming one of her character’s most heroic scenes in one of the water tanks.
And it is that, if you are a fan of the original Disney film, or you have read the tale of Hans Christian Andersen, you will know that Ariel is in charge of saving Prince Eric’s life when he falls into the sea during a storm. A scene that was complicated during filming because of the boots that Jonah Hauer-King, the prince’s interpreter, had to wear, and that Rob Marshall wanted to keep.
“We were both trying to survive this scene. Everything was very intense because they had recreated a real storm in the sea in the tank, there were waves, lightning… And I was just thinking about looking like a “mermaid”, like “I rescue people all the time”Bailey joked during the press conference for the presentation of The Little Mermaid attended by Hobby Consolas.
“Jonah is a lot taller than me so it was hard for me to keep him afloat and his boots were so heavy that we kept sinking. So we put our hand up and said to Rob, “Can we take your boots off? If they don’t show.” And he tells us: “No, you have to leave them.” So we kept sinking while trying to keep our composure,” the actress confessed.
Flounder’s voice no longer exists
Although it has been released in 2023, To be able to shoot The Little Mermaid, a lot of production and pre-production time has been needed. A time that is especially noticeable among the younger actors in the film, such as Jacob Tremblay, who lends his voice to the character of Flounder and who has lived part of his adolescence during the filming of the film.
Y like many other boys his age, 16 years old, he has undergone various changes like, for example, in his voice, which right now prevents him from singing the same songs that he recorded a few years ago for Ariel’s fish friend to sing and that can now be seen in theaters. The last vestige of the childhood of the actor from The Little Mermaid.
