Maybe if we ask you which new moments are the ones you remember the most from ‘The Little Mermaid’ your answer is some of the new songs created by Alan Menken and Lin-Manuel Miranda, such as ‘Hamilton’ rap or the classic prince song. But what if we tell you that there is a great song that was completely erased from the footage and that, furthermore, he was played by Javier Bardem? Don’t worry: luckily, we can hear it.
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‘Impossible child’. That was the name of the song with which King Triton complained about Ariel, the comings and goings of him. Bardem sings “Trying to protect you, I scared you away. Stay, impossible girl”, an idea that would make her character arc clearer, but that, when seen together with the rest of the film, It was not quite consistent with its ending. Our actor talks a bit about her:
We worked very hard making it. It was a beautiful and terrifying process, as Halle and I know, but I was always accompanied by incredible talent. It was rolled. It’s very pretty, but it’s true that when we look at how the character ends the story, if the song had been included it would have changed its ending somewhat. He’ll appear as an extra when the movie comes out.
The song that mixes a certain rap tone with a simple melodygives us the opportunity to see Bardem singing, a facet in which we already saw him in the terrible ‘Lilo, my friend the crocodile’ or in a Miguel Ríos concert singing ‘Bienvenidos’. One might think that she only sings in the showerbut the truth is that any day we see him in ‘Mask singer’: he has the base, of course.
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