Terry Crews Badly Wants To Play Ariel’s Dad In ‘The Little

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Prep on Disney’s live-action redo of The Little Mermaid has been a bit bumpy. First, it took years to get off the bottom following a false begin. Then, after Melissa McCarthy was solid a couple of weeks again as tentacled baddie Ursula, there was a name for her to changed by Lizzo, together with by Lizzo herself. Then there was the racist backlash over the casting of Halle Bailey (not Halle Berry) as Ariel.

So, right here’s one thing to lighten the temper: As caught by Entertainment Weekly, Terry Crews needs to play Ariel’s dad so unhealthy, he printed photoshopped photos of himself within the position.

The Brooklyn Nine-Nine workforce member and Idiocracy prez has been on this line of thought for a couple of days now. Last Saturday, he printed a much less slick model of the identical plea: that he get to strap on some fish legs and play King Triton, the disapproving father of a younger lady who’s so in love with a human she indicators on to a devious pact to go ashore with folks legs. (The position within the authentic, by the way, was voiced by Mel Brooks common Kenneth Mars, finest identified for the Hitler-loving ex-Nazi playwright in The Producers and the stiff-armed inspector in Young Frankenstein.)

So far, Crews’ petition to play the position has gone effectively, with the unique tweet scoring over 25,000 re-tweets and over 117,000 likes over the previous couple of days.