‘Aladdin’ Star Mena Massoud Scrubs Twitter After ‘Little Mermaid’ Backlash

Ariel the mermaid simply pounded real-life Aladdin into submission — or, extra precisely, her followers did … this after the dude juxtaposed his flick with hers, which pissed lots of people off.

Mena Massoud — who performed everybody’s favourite road rat within the 2019 live-action adaptation — simply scrubbed his Twitter account attributable to a mountain of backlash he obtained Saturday for chiming in on the long run field workplace prospects of Halle Bailey‘s new ‘Little Mermaid’ film.

He was responding to an account that was reporting on how a lot ‘TLM’ was slated to make in its opening weekend — about $115M, which it then in comparison with the $112M ‘Aladdin’ made in its opening weekend run. Mena had some ideas on that … some took it as shade.

MM wrote, “Our movie was distinctive in that audiences went to observe it a number of occasions. It’s the one manner we reached the billion greenback mark with our opening.” “Aladdin” went on to make $1.054 bil internationally … and its preliminary field workplace numbers had been thought of a giant win.

Then got here a comment that obtained Mena attacked. He adopted up and stated, “My guess is TLM does not cross the billion mark however will undoubtedly get a sequel.” Unclear if he adopted that up with any clarification on what he meant — however this alone obtained Halle followers up in arms.

You can hop into the “Aladdin” development your self and see what they’re saying … however mainly, the response wasn’t good. Some felt Mena’s remark right here was an inexpensive shot and suggesting ‘Little Mermaid’ wasn’t truly worthy of any future success, together with a doable sequel.

Others are additionally saying that Mena sounds a bit of salty over the truth that he hasn’t been solid in a lot post-“Aladdin” — and that he is nonetheless hung up on the criticism that film obtained … and there was quite a bit. Bottom line … he was getting dragged by means of the coals over this.

As a outcome, Mena seems to have deleted his account. The OG Twitter remark is gone, and his web page is inaccessible now … so it appears the discourse could have gotten to him.

Part of the rationale for this fierce response to his obvious slight might need to do with the truth that ‘TLM’ has been within the crosshairs of haters from day one … ever since they introduced Halle, a Black lady, can be solid — which obtained a ton of flak in and of itself.

People are coalescing round this film and hoping it does numbers, due to the bigger implications — particularly, extra POC getting solid in iconic roles … and a shift in Hollywood.