'Mommy! ... She's brown like me!' Parents of young Black girls are posting videos of their children's ecstatic reactions to seeing Halle Bailey as Ariel in the new 'Little Mermaid' trailer.
In addition to Bailey, the film features actor Daveed Diggs as the voice of Sebastian, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, and Awkwafina as Scuttle.Bailey, 22, addressed the backlash towards her casting in the lead role. Some on social media have used the hashtag #NotMyAriel to say that casting a Black actress goes against the original Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, which was originally published in Denmark in 1837.
"It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, 'You don't understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the little Black and brown girls who are going to see themselves in you,'" Bailey said. "I want the little girl in me and the little girls just like me who are watching to know that they're special and that they should be a princess in every single way," she added.
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