Earlier this week, fans once again started noticing that Scuttle wasn’t a seagull in the upcoming live-action version of The little Mermaid.
While it was mentioned in previous interviews, there hasn’t been a full explanation of the change until now.
Director Rob Marshall spoke in a new interview with IndieWire about turning Scuttle into a northern gannet, which can go underwater and stay there for a while.
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Rob explained that he wanted Ariel’s arrival on the surface to be much more important than in the animated version.
“I wanted to make it clear that Ariel had never been on the surface. Never,” she says. “That was the goal for me. She has never broken that rule, [so that helps] it ups the stakes for that moment when it finally does.
Rob added that “if she’s up and down, up and down, it’s not a big deal. The fact that she breaks the rule, her father has closed the surface of the ocean. No one is allowed to go. The mother, his wife, died at the hands of humans. At that point, she closed the surface.”
“After she sings ‘Part of Your World’ and leaves [to the surface] for the first time, it’s so shocking and so exciting. It’s better to tell stories,” she shared, before revealing that if Scuttle wasn’t a seagull, what could the bird be?
“I realized, well, Scuttle, how do you know everything up there? We decided to make her a diving bird so she could go down and Ariel could meet Scuttle in the water and get all that information there, not up there,” she explains.
There were a few other bird species that were considered: “There was a cormorant, [and] there was a gannet. They stay under the water for many, many minutes, and then come up again. We looked at all the different versions of what they looked like. It seemed so fun and wonderful and it fit Awkwafina more. We liked it a lot better and I chose to do that, but it’s really important.”
The little Mermaid Opens Friday May 26.
If you missed it, find out what Halle Bailey did to train for the role of Ariel.
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