Disney Reportedly Unknowingly Cast A Porn Star In Its Live Action Remake Of "The Little Mermaid"

Casting bosses working on the live-action remake wanted to use “really sexy male models” to portray the mermen in the film, and among those hired for the job was 24-year-old Stefano Tomadini, who has also made adult movies under the alias Dante Ferrari.

A source told The Sun newspaper: “Casting bosses decided to hire a number of really sexy male models to play mermen in the movie. “They had no idea about Stefano’s racy videos and, given ‘The Little Mermaid’ is the big summer blockbuster for kids, it’s a bit embarrassing for Disney.”

While filming the movie in Sardinia, Stefano shared a number of behind-the-scenes photos on Instagram. Tagging Disney in the post, he wrote in the caption: “Lifetime memories with lifetime friends.(sic)”

Uh ohhhhh, something tells me The Mouse isn't going to be happy when he sees this story, even if it's pretty much only on Internet smut sites with the word Sun in their name right now. I have no clue if the Ottawa Sun falls into the category of publications like the Daily Sun, but I've never known a Canadian to tell a lie. 

Regardless, I imagine this is what ol' Mickey is doing to the casting director of The Little Mermaid as Disney continues to take L's from yet another underwhelming live action remake.

Not that I'm shaming them in the least for reportedly mistakenly hiring a porn star as a mermaid merman. Far from it. Isn't the whole point of The Little Mermaid that it's what's on the inside that counts? I suppose you can also make a case that it's also about not blindly signing your life away to an octopus sea witch that hangs out with eels, no matter how hard her emo songs may bang.

Nonetheless, who cares what a background actor did with his dinglehopper before he filmed a movie? It's not like kids are leaving the theater to see Merman Number 5's IMDB page because his soaking wet abs were popping off the screen. And even if they did, it's not like you have a headliner name like Peter North in there that could result in some easily found Google results, even with the SFW filter on.

Besides what's a Disney movie without a subtle nod to sex in it?