‘The Little Mermaid’ Director Never Had Any Doubts About Halle Bailey As Ariel: ‘She Chose It For Me’

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In an interview with g1, Rob Marshall talks about the technical challenges of reproducing the seabed and the criticism of the actress: ‘It looks so old-fashioned’. Version with actors opens this Thursday (25). Rob Marshal, director of ‘The Little Mermaid’, talks about casting Halle Bailey When the version with actors of “The Little Mermaid” opens in Brazilian theaters this Thursday (25), the public will find an Ariel somewhat different from from the 1989 animation. Most will like it, some may complain, but for director Rob Marshall (“Mary Poppins Returns”), casting actress and singer Halle Bailey in the role was easy. G1 has seen it: ‘The Little Mermaid’ gets the great Halle Bailey right and nothing else “You want a great singer, someone who can be very strong-willed, passionate, but also at the same time have an otherworldly, kind of ethereal quality. She needs vulnerability, naivety in some ways. And it was incredibly difficult to find that”, says the Oscar-nominated filmmaker for “Chicago” (2002) in an interview with g1. Watch the video above. “Halle had it all. I didn’t really have to make any choices. She chose for me. She claimed the role.” Halle Bailey in a scene from ‘The Little Mermaid’ Publicity Once again, with actors The “The Little Mermaid” that premieres now is the newest re-recording, with real-life actors, of a Disney animated classic – something that has become an almost own franchise within the studio. In recent years, there have been several, such as “Aladdin” (2019) and “Mulan” (2020). And many others are planned. Not to mention those who are inspired by the cartoons to present slightly different stories, such as “Maleficent” (2014) and “Cruella” (2021). The new film fits into the most faithful adaptations. Therefore, the plot is practically the same. A mermaid (Bailey) feels like a fish out of water because of her father (Javier Bardem), an overprotective king of the seven seas. Forbidden to rise to the surface, she falls madly in love with a human prince (Jonah Hauer-King) and seeks help from her witch aunt (Melissa McCarthy) to have a chance with the boy. As always, however, there is a catch. She must give up her own voice to conquer him in three days, at the risk of becoming an eternal slave to the villain if she is not successful. Producer John DeLuca, director of photography Dion Beebe and director Rob Marshall during the recording of ‘The Little Mermaid’ Giles Keyte/Disney ‘She’s Ariel’ 2019. Not everything was positive, but the reactions of black girls watching the first trailer for the film, three years later, went viral. Thrilled, they celebrated the fact of seeing a new Disney princess that looked like them. “When I saw the videos with the reactions of the children, I cried. I was very emotional because I was reminded of the little girl I was and if I saw a black mermaid when I was young, it would have changed my whole perspective on life”, said the actress and singer to “Fantástico”. For Marshall, the important thing was just to find the ideal interpreter for the character. “I had one intention: to find the best Ariel. Period. That’s all I cared about. We looked at all ethnicities, at hundreds of actresses, for the role. It was so clearly Halle,” he says. “To people who say they want to see ‘Animation Ariel’ – which I don’t quite understand. It seems so old-fashioned to me – I say, ‘Go see the movie.’ You will. She’s Ariel. 100 %.” Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King in a scene from ‘The Little Mermaid’ Disclosure Contemporary, 1837 The claims make no sense also because the film, based on the 1837 tale by the Danish Hans Christian Andersen, transports the story to a more tropical climate. The location is never openly discussed, but there is a Caribbean feel to the setting. At one point, for example, someone talks about the sugarcane trade. So much so that Prince Eric’s mother, who never even appears in the animation, is played by another black actress, Noma Dumezweni (who worked with Marshall in “Mary Poppins Returns”). Even with so much time between the short story and the re-recording, the filmmaker looked to the original for inspiration. “I saw in this story a very contemporary story about a young woman who feels out of place and wants something different in her life. And who is not afraid to go on this journey and learn about people who are different from her. For me, it was a very moving and contemporary story. ” Scuttle (voiced by Awkwafina), Flounder (voiced by Jacob Tremblay) and Halle Bailey in a scene from ‘The Little Mermaid’ Press Release Dancing at the bottom of the sea The biggest challenge for Marshall was actually the recording itself. After all, drawing the bottom of the sea is a trifle compared to giving the feeling that actors dance and sing like creatures that live underwater. For this, he is grateful for his experience with dance. At the age of 62, the American began his career as a dancer and was even in several Broadway plays. After changing careers because of a herniated disc, he debuted as a director precisely in his greatest success, the film adaptation of “Chicago” – for which he was even the choreographer. “We rehearsed for months and months and months in all kinds of apparatus. Equipment and wires and all kinds of things. So the actors could start to feel comfortable in them. Sometimes I’d literally yell ‘action’ and then they’d say two lines and I would say ‘cut’ and we would put them in another equipment”, says the director. “I have to say that I’m actually grateful for my experience with choreography, because I felt like the whole thing was choreographed. Absolutely. Like a ballet. The only way to do it was step by step.” Melissa McCarthy in a scene from ‘The Little Mermaid’

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