Pretty Woman uncomfortable playing a sex worker. Winona Ryder auditioned, but was turned down because Marshall felt she was "too young". Jennifer Connelly was also dismissed for the same reason. Emily Lloyd turned it down as it conflicted with her shooting for the film "Mermaids". Meg Ryan, who was a top choice of Marshall's, turned it down as well. According to a note written by Marshall, Mary Steenburgen was also among the first choices. Diane Lane came very close to being cast (the script was much darker at the time); they had gone as far as costume fittings, but due to scheduling
Mermaids of Tiburon which show the mermaid actresses partially nude and with flippers on their feet instead of full mermaid tails, which creates notable continuity differences in the movie. The movie was acquired by Filmgroup Productions, who released it in 1962, mostly to some US military bases. Mermaids of Tiburon Mermaids of Tiburon is a 1962 film about a diver looking for buried treasure who comes across mermaids. Dr. Samuel Jamison, a marine biologist at Marineland of the Pacific, is approached by a man named Ernst Steinhauer, who presents him with a rare, unusually large "flame pearl" which he found in the coastal