Catching up with the cast of The Little Mermaid
With the remake of Disney’s 1989 The Little Mermaid about to set sail, we sat down with cast member Myron Needlenoodle, who played “Poor Unfortunate Soul #17” to share some backstage memories. Mr. Needlenoodle, welcome to the show.
Myron: Nice to be here. Actually, none of us got screen credit but yeah, I’m seventeenth from the left. You may have to freeze-frame to see me.
Cutetropolis: Good to know. So what have you been doing lately?
M: Well, work kind of dried up after the movie wrapped. I’m not leading man material, as you can imagine. Most of the guys quit the business and took regular jobs, but I kept my hand in, so to speak. Because I don’t, y’know, have hands. Anyway, I do some dinner theater and teach improv on the weekends.
C: So is there anything about the movie that might surprise us?
M: You’d think Ariel would be the sweet one, right? Actually, it was Ursula. Real friendly, remembered all our names. Some of us ran a poker game between takes, and she sat in all the time. Just a kind, down-to-earth person, not like that Ariel. Soon as they yell “cut” she swims to her dressing room, nobody sees her for hours.
The things this seed pod has seen, Elizabeth G.
Hilarious. Mike, you never disappoint.
Ever since I was in grad school, that musical number would run through my brain whenever my students had to take an exam. Usually, I was kind enough *not* to mention it to them. But every now and then I’d get my Ursula on and play the song for them.
Peeps, click through to the Twitter feed–you’ll laugh your head off.
And the good news is that you don’t need a Twitter account to read the tweets. I never knew that! 😊
Mike, you have truly outdone yourself! I doubt there’s another person on this or any other planet who could’ve come up with a more clever and amusing story.
OMG thanks for the tip. 🤣
The story is fab, the picture, though, is disturbing. For some reason, that plant just plain creeps me out. And yes, the Twitter comments are pretty funny.
Trypophobia? This little guy doesn’t bug me so much, but normal lotus pods totally skeeve me.
I’m amazed. This is the second time in a very short period that trypophobia has come up and never before in my life experience – and you have it! (cue ominous music).
Amazing! Goes into the Brain to Science submission folder.
Now I’ll be singing that all afternoon…
I would like to know what exactly that thing is so I never encounter it in real life because it is seriously creeping me out.
Lotus pod. Not a normal one, but that’s what it is.