Here’s How The Live-Action “The Little Mermaid” Perfectly Recreated Ariel’s Iconic Hair Flip From The Original Movie
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Here's How The Live-Action "The Little Mermaid" Perfectly Recreated Ariel's Iconic Hair Flip From The Original Movie,Several moments from the original <i>The Little Mermaid</i> made it into the live-action movie, including Ariel's iconic hair flip, which took around 20 takes to get just right.
Here’s How The Live-Action “The Little Mermaid” Perfectly Recreated Ariel’s Iconic Hair Flip From The Original Movie
The Little Mermaid is officially in theaters, and it’s personally my favorite one of these Disney live-action remakes since Cinderella.
Disney / Via youtu.beIn particular, one moment that everyone was excited to see pulled off in the live-action movie was Ariel’s iconic hair flip.
In case you need a refresher, the notable moment comes after Ariel has made her deal with Ursula and trades her voice for a chance to live in the human world and fall in love with Prince Eric.
DisneyShe swims to the surface and we get this gorgeous shot that has becomes one of the most memorable scenes from the film.
DisneySo, the live-action The Little Mermaid made sure to include it and recreated it pretty perfectly with Halle.
Disney / Via youtu.beHere’s a side-by-side of the animated movie vs. the live-action:
Disney / Via youtu.beAnyway, since Ariel’s hair flip is so important, Halle and the team behind the new movie wanted to make sure to get it just right, and it was apparently one of the harder things to accomplish.
Giles Keyte / DisneyIn an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Halle said the scene “was so fun to do,” but was “definitely hard” because in the water her hair is “really, really heavy.”
Jeff Spicer / Getty ImagesShe continued, saying, “I have my locs, which are my favorite thing. I’ve had my locs since I was 5. It’s feels like wool when it’s wet. So it gets heavier. It kind of almost doubles the weight when they’re heavy.”
Axelle / FilmMagic / Getty Images“It was just a lot of hair on my head,” Halle said. “So whenever I would get in the water, it would be heavy. So that one scene, it was really funny: that whole day we were trying to get it right, get it right, and finally they got a take that they really liked.”
Halle went on to explain in a seperate interview with Sherri Shepherd that it took her “like 20 takes” to get Ariel’s hair flip just right because of how heavy her hair was and it hurt her neck to keep flipping her head back.
Brendon Thorne / Getty ImagesIn fact, in order to make it as beautiful as the animated shot, what ended up happening is one of the members of the stunt team helped Halle achieve the perfect flip.
DisneyHalle explained in a red carpet interview that a stunt team member named Dan would push her hair back with her and it allowed it to look “way more graceful than [it] actually was.”
Disney / Via youtu.beAlso, in post-production, some hair was added using CGI during the hair flip.
A lot of thought went into Halle’s red locs for the movie, which included adding “three shades of red” wraps to Halle’s natural locs. The films hair department head Camille Friend said in an interview with Variety that it was important to her and Halle that they kept Halle’s natural hair, and they elected to not use a wig.
Matt Winkelmeyer / The Hollywood Reporter via Getty ImagesCamille also recently worked on Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
The extensions that were added to Halle’s natural locs were said to have cost $150,000, according to Camille. She explained, “I’m not guesstimating, but we probably spent at least $150,000 because we had to redo it and take it out. You couldn’t use it and we’d have to start again. It was a process.”
DisneyLose pieces of hair were also added so that Ariel’s hair would float underwater.
Also, part of Halle’s stunt training included strengthening her neck muscles, as seen in this video posted by film and TV personal trainer Sana Shirvani, who worked with the cast. This probably helped a lot when filming the specific hair flip scene too.
Sana Shirvani / TikTok / Via tiktok.comLike, this is wild.
Overall, I’m just continuously impressed with the amount of detail the entire The Little Mermaid team put into making this movie, and it makes me want to go see it again.
DISNEYMore on The Little Mermaid
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- It’s Time To Find Out Which “The Little Mermaid” Characters You Really Are Alongside The Live-Action CastAllie Hayes · May 26, 2023
Halle Bailey Opened Up About The Importance Of Keeping Her Natural Hair For “The Little Mermaid”Morgan Murrell · May 25, 2023
Here Are The 11 Best (and 4 Worst) Differences Between 2023’s “Little Mermaid” And The 1989 CartoonEvelina Zaragoza Medina · May 28, 2023
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