When the primary The Little Mermaid teaser trailer was launched, star Halle Bailey confronted racist backlash over her model of Ariel being Black. During an interview with The Face, the actress spoke out in regards to the backlash.
“I know people are like: ‘It’s not about race.’ But now that I’m her … people don’t understand that when you’re Black there’s this whole other community,” Bailey said. “It’s so important for us to see ourselves.”
The star additionally defined that whereas it’s not stunning to see such a response, she doesn’t learn the feedback on posts so she doesn’t see a lot of the negativity.
“As a Black person, you just expect it and it’s not really a shock anymore,” Bailey mentioned. “When [Chlöe and I] first signed to Parkwood, [Beyoncé] was always like: ‘I never read my comments. Don’t ever read the comments.’ Honestly, when the teaser came out, I was at the D23 Expo and I was so happy. I didn’t see any of the negativity.”
For this new model of The Little Mermaid, Disney paired Lin-Manuel Miranda with Alan Menken — who additionally wrote the songs within the 1989 animated movie alongside Howard Ashman — to create a mix of previous and new songs that shall be featured within the upcoming big-screen model.
Disney’s animated The Little Mermaid revamped $211 million on the field workplace and have become a bestseller on residence video, popularizing songs like “Under The Sea” and “Part of Your World.” The upcoming movie is predicated on the quick story by Hans Christian Andersen and the 1989 Disney animated movie by Ron Clements and John Musker.
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