When the primary The Little Mermaid teaser trailer was launched, star Halle Bailey confronted racist backlash over her model of Ariel being Black. Throughout an interview with The Face, the actress spoke out concerning the backlash.
“I do know persons are like: ‘It’s not about race.’ However now that I’m her … folks don’t perceive that if you’re Black there’s this entire different group,” Bailey said. “It’s so essential for us to see ourselves.”
The star additionally defined that whereas it’s not surprising 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 particular person, you simply count on it and it’s probably not a shock anymore,” Bailey stated. “When [Chlöe and I] first signed to Parkwood, [Beyoncé] was all the time like: ‘I by no means learn my feedback. Don’t ever learn the feedback.’ Truthfully, when the teaser got here out, I used to be on the D23 Expo and I used to be so completely 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 might 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 house video, popularizing songs like “Below The Sea” and “A part of Your World.” The upcoming movie relies on the brief story by Hans Christian Andersen and the 1989 Disney animated movie by Ron Clements and John Musker.