The Little Mermaid: Javier Bardem suffered a serious accident during the recordings

During the recordings of The Little Mermaid(2023), while Javier Bardem, who plays King Triton, was suspended 12 meters, the actor fell from the structure used to simulate the bottom of the sea. To the Entertainment Weeklythe director Rob Marshall gave details of the incident (via Insider).

we almost lost javier [Bardem]. He was in his throne room and he was up there, at least 12 meters high, when he plummeted about 4 meters… javier, who is the nicest man on planet Earth and the nicest man, right away said, ‘OK. I am fine.'”

After the event, Marshall reflected on the difficulty of producing a live-action animation that takes place underwater. “It was like this was bad. […] what doing is really challenging. We were never on the ground until halfway through the movie.”

To achieve the appearance of the actors being underwater, the actors would be strapped into a harness while a weight rocked them up and down. The actors used a technique known as dry-for-wetwhich uses smoke, color filters, and lighting effects to simulate the reflections of light on water, to film underwater scenes.

More about The Little Mermaid (2023)

With script by jane goldman and soundtrack signed by Alan Menken It is Lin-Manuel Mirandathe live action of The Little Mermaid will feature new songs, in addition to the iconic songs already known by the public.

In addition to Bardem like the king newtthe cast of the new version includes Halle Bailey as ariel, Jonah Hauer-King like the Prince Eric, Melissa McCarthy asUrsula, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina It is Daveed Diggs.

Directed by Rob Marshallthe feature promises to narrate the classic adventures of the mermaid who traded her tail for a pair of legs so that she could meet the prince. The Little Mermaid is now showing in cinemas nationwide. watch the trailer in full below: