In a May 25 interview with Collider, Hauer-King and Bailey revealed they bonded early on while filming "The Little Mermaid." During the scene where Ariel saves Prince Eric from drowning, Bailey said Hauer-King actually did struggle to stay above water due to the filming conditions being "so intense."
"When they turned on the thunder and lightning and had the fires around us and the waves, it felt like you were in the middle of the ocean, actually in the middle of a thunderstorm," Bailey recalled. "She literally had to save me because I was drowning," Haur-King said, adding that he "passed out."
Bailey explained the boots Hauer-King was wearing made it easy for him to sink under the water, so she kept struggling to keep him afloat. "I said to Rob, 'You don't see the boots, right? Can he just take them off?' Because he kept stepping on my toes," she remembered telling the director. Since Marshall insisted Hauer-King keep his boots on, he and Bailey had to push through the scene and make it work. "I was kicking her and breaking her shins. It was really bad," Hauer-King said. "I basically almost killed her. I almost broke her legs."
Thankfully, the two eventually got through the scene, and now Hauer-King and Bailey have a story to tell of their first few days on set.
