![]() ![]() Room and Luca star Jacob Tremblay voices Flounder, while comedian and The Farewell star Awkwafina voices Scuttle, Ariel’s bird friend. Melissa McCarthy plays Ursula, the half-octopus sea witch who tricks Ariel into giving up her voice, and Javier Bardem plays Ariel’s father King Triton.Īriel’s animal friends have big-name actors behind them, too. Jonah Hauer-King, an English actor known for his role in A Dog’s Way Home, plays Ariel’s love interest Prince Eric, though the role almost went to another singer-turned-actor, Harry Styles. Her casting was announced in July of 2019, and there was, sadly but seemingly inevitably, racist backlash to the news. ![]() Halle Bailey, an actress and singer who was previously best known for her musical career as one half of Chloe x Halle along with her sister, Chloe Bailey, plays the titular little mermaid. (Photo by ©Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures) The Oscars were on ABC and Disney owns that network. (Literally during the awards, not during a commercial break. The second trailer, which is much longer and shows off more of the plot and the film’s other characters, made its debut in March during the Academy Awards. ![]() The first teaser trailer (shown above), which is mostly atmospheric shots of the film’s underwater setting followed by the brief reveal of actress Halle Bailey’s Ariel singing a bit of “Part of Your World,” debuted in September of last year. ![]()
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