This May, audiences will get another one of Disney’s live-action money-making remakes of their animated films when The Little Mermaid releases. In the runup to the project, grown men way too invested in a children’s cartoon went nuts when it was revealed a Black woman was playing the titular role and now Halle Bailey has opened up about just what this was like.
In a new article for The Face, the 22-year-old says she cried when she first received the news she had won the role of Ariel. Of course, after it was announced, bigoted hashtags began to spread on Twitter and other forms of social media, and in response, former Ariel actress Jodi Benson spoke up for Bailey. Benson was joined by the similarly-named Halle Berry, and then a wave of younger Black folks shared their reactions, or those of their children, to the initial trailer online. The wave of kids exclaiming “she’s Black like me!” reached the woman whose career began as a musician, and she admits she cried after being numb to the initial evil.
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