You may have thought mermaids were the stuff of cartoons and fairytales, but you’d be wrong about that. For some, it’s a career path.
The trailer above for Netflix’s documentary MerPeople, made by the producers of Queer Eye, follows a range of people working professionally as mermaids, auditioning for the intense (and very real) training before putting on shows as part of what is apparently a half a billion dollar industry.
Like the idea of it? Well, you can always get some lessons yourself.
MerPeople drops on Netflix on May 23.
Netflix’s ‘MerPeople’ trailer teases the ebbs and flows of being a professional mermaid
