Buddy Hackett Joked About Murdering Disney Execs to Land ‘The Little Mermaid’
As Disney continues to harvest their underwater kingdoms comprised of giant golden dongs.
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In the new movie, the role of Scuttle the Awkwafina, while the original was given life by famed comedian Buddy Hackett, best known for his highly non-Disney-friendly material.
How did a foul-mouthed 1960s nightclub act become part of a movie co-starring a calypso-singing crustacean? Well, we know a bit more about Hackett’s involvement thanks to the podcast Matt and Greg Used to Interview Movie Stars, which ed the full audio of an interview Hackett gave reporters to promote the re-release of The Little Mermaid back in 1997.
Hackett began the chat by remarking that the microphone reminded him of “when I entered the ‘Big Dick’ contest” — again, not the first time penises derailed conversations about The Little Mermaid. Hackett then recalled his previous Disney experience, co-starring in The Love Bug, the 1969 classic about a Volkswagen that’s clearly possessed by some kind of demon.
But Hackett claimed that he later had an “argument with the studio” due to the actions of an unnamed executive who made Hackett a “promise” and then “denied making the promise.” Without mentioning any details, he added, “If the Disney people knew the truth, they would come to my side. But nobody did, and so I didn’t work there for a long time.”
When asked how exactly he returned to the employ of mafia buddies had a hand in said deaths: “A few I had to help along the way, with my friends from Las Vegas. One guy fell out of a window from which there was no building within 100 miles. That’s a strange thing to happen.”
At least, we hope it was a joke, considering that a gun-toting Hackett once method acting for a mermaid ally, so who knows?
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