Cailee Spaeny Almost Starred In Sofia Coppola’s ‘The Little Mermaid’

Before there was Priscilla, Cailee Spaeny revealed that her first collaboration with Sofia Coppola was an eventually scrapped version of The Little Mermaid.

“My first-ever callback was through Sofia,” the Alien: Romulus star told Empire. “It was for [Coppola’s] The Little Mermaid, [which] ended up not getting made. I sent this weird self-tape, playing a mermaid with no dialogue.”

In true Coppola fashion, Spaeny said it was “very strange and avant-garde.”