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The locs and hair extensions Halle wore in the movie cost over $150,000 and "took 12 to 14 hours" to install.
"We rehearsed it, built it like a play — all of the voice actors were rehearsing with the people that would eventually play the puppets in the real scenes. ... Then, when we recorded, all of us were together. Me, Awkwafina [who voices Scuttle], and Jacob were all on a stage together, anyone else in the scene was also in the room, so we got to really play the scene and improvise."
Awkwafina shared, "[Halle] said it felt like we were there, because she was constantly listening to us all day."
Rob Marshall explained, "[Filming] underwater was so complicated, but our goal was never to let you see the machinery behind it all because sometimes, there would be… In 'Part of Your World,' Halle would sing two lines, and we'd say, 'Cut,' and then she'd be back on another piece of equipment or apparatus. It was all choreographed in advance. But then, it was so complicated to think, 'How do we do an underwater musical, really?' It's never been done before. So, that was the goal, to make sure the audience doesn't see any of that."
He told Seventeen, "I just can't get the floating aspect, some people seem to do that really easily, that comes naturally to them. I just sink to the bottom."
"It was a standard bodybuilding program, so we would do, for example, back and biceps, chest and triceps. We would focus solely on getting a little bit of strength, a little bit of size into his body," Sana Shirvani, Jonah's trainer, explained. "We got him to that point, and then obviously, if he continued training in that capacity, he was only going to get bigger and bigger. I remember the director coming up to me and saying, 'We are not after the Incredible Hulk, we want a strong sailor boy.'"
He was riffing on "Tour of The Kingdom," and Lin-Manuel Miranda suggested he slow it down and add a "dancehall beat" underneath — which gave the tune a "Caribbean-island vibe."
Together, they worked on "Wild Uncharted Waters," "For the First Time," and "The Scuttlebutt."
She said that when the movie finally got greenlit, she reached out to her longtime friends Rob Marshall and John DeLuca and congratulated them. They immediately responded with "You are going to be part of this."
"As soon as I finished my quarantine, I could go and watch,” she said. “To see it come through Rob and John’s eyes of how they envisioned it, paying tribute to the original but then just expanding it, was just glorious. I was blown away.”
Last year, she told Jimmy Kimmel, "I was on a movie at the time, and I was in my trailer, and I got the call saying, 'It's kind of secret, you can't tell anyone. But you've got the role.'"
At the time, she couldn't name what movie set she'd been working on but explained that she got the news after Bridgerton's first season came out, which was December 2020, and The Little Mermaid began filming January 2021.