'The Little Mermaid' director Rob Marshall and Jodi Benson, the original Ariel, discuss how her cameo role came about.
) explores the land world for the first time and gets lost amid the vendors of a local marketplace.
The scene already existed in the screenplay, written by David Magee. In the 1989 film, Ariel combs her hair with a fork at the prince's dining table. Marshall didn't feel that was right. A dinner guest, even a mermaid dinner guest, wouldn't start grooming themself at the start of a meal. So they reimagined it in this marketplace setting. By the time they pondered how best to include Benson in the story, this moment rose to the surface.
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MAY 08: Halle Bailey and Jodi Benson attend the World Premiere of Disney's live-action feature "The Little Mermaid" at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, California on May 08, 2023. | Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty "There was a heater at my feet at the cauldron-like place where I had my rice and bean mixture that I was cooking up for everybody. [It] exuded a tremendous amount of heat," she says of shooting the sequence. "The cast members, in between takes, would love to come around to warm up."
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