‘Cool Runnings’ Cast And Director Recall Battling With Disney Over Jamaican Accents, They ‘Wanted A Disney Version’ That Sounded Like Sebastian The Crab
etcanada.comThe cast and crew of Disney’s beloved sports comedy, “Cool Runnings”, are opening up about the troubles they ran into with Disney upon making the 1993 film.
During a recent reunion, in honour of the film’s 30th anniversary this month, director Jon Turteltaub and the cast recalled battling with the media giant over the film’s Jamaican accents. “Cool Runnings” — roughly based on the debut of the Jamaican national bobsleigh team at the 1988 Winter Olympics — initially got its start apart from Disney with a script that featured a lot of “drugs, racism and the characters were getting laid a lot,” actor Rawle D.
Lewis revealed in a interview with The Independent. “I saw it morph into the movie that it is now,” the cast member continued. “It was something that had never been told before – Jamaicans in tights?
People were like, ‘How’s this going to go under the Disney umbrella?’” READ MORE: ‘Daredevil’ Showrunner Calls Out ‘Disney Scam’ Of Renaming Show, Which ‘Resets Contract Terms Back To First Season’ When Walt Disney Studios entered the picture, its executives allegedly fought with Turteltaub over the accent work of the cast members. “They wanted me to sound like a black Aladdin,” Just Leon recounted. “They wanted a Disney version.
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