The Little Mermaid: 8 PERFECT Choices To Complete The Cast
1. Terry Crews As King Triton
First suggested by BossLogic on his Instagram feed, the hypothetical casting of Terry Crews as King Triton has already generated massive buzz online. As one of the most popular celebrities going, that’s no surprise.
Despite probably being best known these days as Sergeant Terry Jeffords in Brooklyn 99, one of his earliest popular roles was as the grizzled, thrifty father in Everybody Hates Chris. In both Brooklyn and Chris he shows he loves his children, but in very different ways in very different circumstances; there’s no doubts he’d fit the role of Triton like a glove.
One of the funniest and sweetest actors around, he’d make the role his own, humanising Triton a little more than in 1989. It was always clear the animated dad had his heart in the right place, but he was painted as a villainous force too much for us to ever truly see his perspective. Crews’ Triton likely wouldn’t have this difficulty.
His bravery and honesty in the #MeToo era has only endeared him to the public further; given some of the negative press over Halle Bailey’s casting, he’d prove an excellent balm too.