the “who-said-what-who-does-that, yeah, the Scuttlebutt!”) that Ursula has apparently convinced Prince Eric to marry her. It features several new songs that were not in the 1989 classic, including one called “The Scuttlebutt.” On it, Awkwafina sings/raps/squawks as Scuttle the seabird, who is urgently reporting the gossip (a.k.a. Ahead of the May 26 release of the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, Disney has dropped the live-action movie’s official soundtrack. “I promise to do better in my future projects, and I’m dedicated to the learning and evolving we all have to do to make sure we are honoring our diverse and vibrant community.Well, this is now a thing that is part of our world. “I’m trying to hold space for both the incredible pride in the movie we made and be accountable for our shortcomings,” Miranda added. I hear that without sufficient dark-skinned Afro-Latino representation, the work feels extractive of the community we wanted so much to represent with pride and joy. Miranda continued: “I can hear the hurt and frustration over colorism, of feeling unseen in the feedback.
In his apology, Miranda said: “It is clear that many in our dark-skinned Afro-Latino community don’t feel sufficiently represented within it, particularly among the leading roles.” Grace told the Root that until she made the film she hadn’t recognized that she “didn’t really get to see myself or people that look like my siblings that are darker than me on screen”.Ĭhu added: “We’re not going to get everything right in a movie, we tried our best on all fronts of it.”
Miranda, who produced and stars in the film which is based on his smash Broadway hit, posted the apology after the film’s director, Jon Chu, and cast members Melissa Barrera and Leslie Grace were interviewed about casting choices in the film. “In trying to paint a mosaic of this community, we fell short,” Miranda said in the statement, two days after the film opened at the box office and online.
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