Chole x Halle member Halle Bailey has been tapped to play Ariel in Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid. Film director Rob Marshall believes the Parkwood Entertainment artist has all of the attributes needed to do the role justice.
“After an extensive search, it was abundantly clear that Halle possesses that rare combination of spirit, heart, youth, innocence, and substance — plus a glorious singing voice — all intrinsic qualities necessary to play this iconic role,” Marshall said in a statement.
Bailey will be apart of a cast that includes Jacob Tremblay and Awkwafina. Melissa McCarthy is reportedly in talks to play Ursula as well. In the original 1989 Disney classic, the mermaid princess Ariel is fascinated with life on land and dreams of becoming human after falling in love with a prince.
The film will mark the first movie role for the 19-year-old entertainer who came to fame recording YouTube cover videos with her sister Chloe. The group was eventually discovered by the pop icon Beyoncé who is starring in a Disney movie of her own this summer via the live-action remake of The Lion King.
Chloe x Halle has since opened for their Parkwood Entertainment CEO and released their 2018 album The Kids Are Alright.
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A black playing Ariel? Is this a joke? Well I hope HBO makes a new series about the history of the Zulu nation and Shaka Zulu and all his generals should all be white.
Hugo Lloris is an idiot who thinks Mermaids are real and white lmfao!
Grow up dummy is an idiot who can’t grasp simple, sarcastic humour lmfao!
So no word about this being racist and controversial???
It says a lot about you that this is the first thing to come to your mind. Me, I was admiring her beauty, and I thought she’d look great in the movie.
Yes this is incredibly upsetting. Our children are gonna grow up thinking Ariel was a black. If we don’t watch out all the Disney princesses are gonna be turned into blacks. Well my kid is dressing up as a black Ariel with blackface and dreads this Halloween, because clearly that’s what Disney wants. They want to turn our children into blacks.
All of these Disney live action films are trash anyway. My daughter saw the Beauty and the Beast live action and I hated it. I’m glad she saw it for free, because I would have felt ripped off. I won’t be taking my daughter to see this, or Lion King, or Aladdin…Disney is just about virtue signaling now. Don’t give them your money if this pandering shit bothers u.
states all of the films are trash…then says he only saw one of them….yea ok…we get it.
More pandering to identity politics proving once again skin colour matters and these pseudoprogressives are nothing more than contributors towards upholding the illusion of societal progression.
I’ll make sure my family skips this one, no support for pc box tickers, this’ll do about as well as black Annie did.