1) Sherri was requested to audition as Ariel’s reference mannequin when her improv comedy troupe, The Groundlings, visited Disney Studios.
Sherri Stoner: I used to be actually glad to be requested as a result of I believed it could simply be the best little job ever. I have been an animation geek my complete life. At that time, I wasn’t writing animation but, and I used to be nonetheless primarily appearing. They despatched me the script, and I believed it was simply incredible. I learn it, and I simply thought, that is actually nice stuff. If I keep in mind appropriately, within the audition, they gave me just a little snippet of Jodi Benson’s [Ariel’s voice actor] observe and had me lip-sync to it and do some actions.
Once I discovered I acquired it, I used to be thrilled! I believed that it could be a job the place nobody would know that I did it aside from me and my family and friends. I did not notice that the film would change into so mega-successful that folks needed increasingly details about it. And other people, rightfully so, have been form of fascinated by what that entailed.