DreamDate: The Little Mermaid’s new Prince Eric, Jonah Hauer-King, joined douglasgrnwd at Babylon Park, London’s indoor, alien-themed amusement park, to discuss how an indie-rock musician turned theology student got here. Photos by Carlos Jaramillo
sequel and told him to enjoy this chance to “play.” His Prince Eric has equal parts charisma and boy-bandish sex appeal; at one point, Ursula, the film’s iconic villain, calls him a “human heartthrob.” But mention that framing to the actor and he squirms a little: “I don’t connect with it, I guess, because it’s not how I see myself.”
We stumble off the coaster toward a ring toss we both fail at, then to a dance match to a violently fast hyperpop remix of Dvořák’s “Symphony No. 9 Allegro con fuoco,” which I accidentally set to “extra-hard.” We try to max out the high score on the punch bag , and I avoid the shoot-out games in fear of entangling Disney’s newly crowned prince into some sort of PR crisis.
But by the time contracts were signed, the work wasn’t there. He remembers auditioning for a part in the 2013 adaptation of. “I think it just gave me a slightly warped sense of what it actually means to be an auditioning actor starting out,” he says, lifting his hat to rub his palm across his closely cropped scalp. “I didn’t get that role, and didn’t get a recall for many, many months on anything else after that.
His studies, which he balanced with acting gigs once the work started coming in, certainly helped him make sense of the project that will follow. In it, Hauer-King will play a young Jewish man who, while imprisoned in Auschwitz concentration camp, is forced to tattoo incoming prisoners. The week prior to our meeting, he’d returned from Bratislava, where he’d been shooting the show in a haunting re-creation of the camp since late last year.
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