We spoke w/ Awkwafina & Jacob Tremblay about their favorite 'The Little Mermaid' scenes, and the new 'Scuttlebutt' song.
On May 26, Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid brings the animation to life with Halle Bailey as Ariel alongside a stellar cast. While promoting the movie, Awkwafina and Jacob Tremblay, the voices behind two of the original film’s most beloved characters, Scuttle and Flounder, sat down to talk with Collider’s Steve Weintraub.
COLLIDER: I want to start with a sincere congratulations, you're both so good in this. I think this movie is gonna make at least $10 at the box office. It might be a small hit.I am curious, though, because this is a movie and these are roles that I'm sure a lot of people wanted. So, ultimately, how much did you both pay to be in the movie?
I definitely want to talk about the “Scuttlebutt” song just because it's so good and it's so catchy. When you first heard it, were you like, “Oh my God, this is gonna be a hit?” TREMBLAY: Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. It was really, really cool to actually be able to do it together, and I think that definitely helped with the performance so much. And obviously getting into a character like this, you feel a lot of pressure. I was quite nervous, but doing it with everyone, it just felt so fun and real. It was just really cool to film it that way. I'd never done something like that before, it was awesome.
TREMBLAY: It was actually really cool because when we were doing rehearsals, we actually saw Styrofoam cutouts of what the sets would look like and a lot of concept art. So, it's almost like when I was watching the film, I could recognize scenes. I was like, “I swear, I've seen that before,” and I was like, “Oh, yeah, I've seen it from rehearsals.
Yeah, 100%. I am curious, the original movie, do you have a favorite scene? And part two is, did you have a favorite scene in the live-action version?
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