Trivia / The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning

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• Acting for Two:
  • Tara Strong voices both Adella and Andrina.
  • Grey DeLisle voices both Aquata and Arista.
  • Kevin Michael Richardson voices both Cheeks and Ray-Ray.
  • Rob Paulsen voices both Ink Spot and Swifty.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: While the cast mainly is comprised of professional voice actors, such as Jodi Benson reprising her role as Ariel, Oscar winner Sally Field voices the villain Marina Del Ray, and is given the And Starring credit in the end titles.
• The Other Darrin:
  • By the time of the film's production, Kenneth Mars was in the early stages of his pancreatic cancer, and he couldn't reprise his role as King Triton. Thus, Jim Cummings replaced him. Mars eventually died on February 12, 2011, over two years after the film's release.
  • The voice actresses for Ariel's sisters are all different for this movie and the TV series:
    • Attina was voiced by Kath Soucie in the TV series, and by Kari Wahlgren in this movie.
    • Alana is voiced by Jennifer Hale instead of Kimmy Robertson.
    • Grey DeLisle replaces Caroline Vasicek and Mona Marshall as Aquata. She also replaces Kimmy Robertson and the late Mary Kay Bergman as Arista.
    • Tara Strong replaces Sherry Lynn as Adella and Cathy Cavadini as Andrina.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Ariel's regular voice actress Cony Madera provided her singing voice instead of Isela Sotelo. Jorge Lapuente also replaces the late Guillermo Romano as King Triton due to the latter living in Los Angeles at the time.
• Role Reprise: Jodi Benson and Samuel E. Wright reprise their respective roles as Ariel and Sebastian for the first time in a major capacity since Return To The Sea eight years prior. For Wright, it would be the final time that he voiced Sebastian before his death in 2021.
• Sequel Gap: Ariel's Beginning came out eighteen years after the original film that it's a prequel to, and eight years after the previous Little Mermaid film, Return to the Sea.
• You Sound Familiar:
  • Tara Strong, who voiced Ariel's daughter Melody in Return to the Sea, voices Ariel's sisters Adella and Andrina in this film.
  • Ink Spot and Swifty are voiced by Rob Paulsen, who previously played Prince Eric in Return to the Sea.

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