no thoughts just this shot of ariel and eric (in ursula's magic ball) being the cutest dorks laughing and taking each other's hand after falling into the lagoon 🥰
Halle Bailey's screen test looks for The Little Mermaid
Camille Friend (Ariel's hair designer): A wig going over [Halle's hair] just never looked right. It was more important keeping the look of [Halle] being an African American Ariel and not trying to change her.
Halle Bailey: I was just really pleased with Rob Marshall and John DeLuca's decision to keep my natural hair but also add some loose tresses to it so [it looks] more mermaid-y as well. I was really pleased that I got to keep that piece of myself.
Halle Bailey and Jonah Hauer-King on set of The Little Mermaid (2023)
Interviewer: Halle and Jonah as Ariel and Eric, they are just an absolute match made in heaven. How was their chemistry read? Were you just, like, instantly, they've got it?
Rob Marshall: That's such a great question. We had a screen test for three different actors to play Eric and we had them read with Halle. When Jonah [came in] you could just see within moments on screen there was an immediate connection. A friendship. You could see it. There was something about them. They just sparked when they were working with each other and they played a scene and it was just, I don't know, it's that thing you can't quite figure out what it is. What is that thing they have? But it was just an immediate connection. [Jonah] is so lovely. [Halle] is so divine. They're both lovely, smart, beautiful souls. And they just blossomed on screen together. And you know what? You would've chosen the same. The two of them in a minute.
Interviewer: It was a no-brainer?
Rob Marshall: It was a no-brainer.
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