The Little Mermaid
Halle Bailey ( not Halle Berry ) , the lately announced asterisk of Disney’slive action mechanism remakeofThe Little Mermaid , has been offered some advice by Diana Huey , the first non - white actress to have ever played Ariel , and therefore someone uniquely qualified to empathize what she ’s going through . When the teenage actress and R&B singer wascast as the titulary undersea princessearlier this week , a predictable backlash followed due to an African - American actress being cast as a character antecedently portrayed as white , because the internet is often a wretched hive of scum and villainy that bring out the high-risk in its denizens .
Although originally a fairy story written in 1837 by author Hans Christian Andersen , Disney ’s reading ofThe Little Mermaidis easy the most famous interpretation of it . In the30 class since , there have been several subsequent version of the story and fiber gain from the House of Mouse ’s offering , almost every clip having Ariel play by a white actress , and thus cement the image of her as a pale red-header in the brain of audience .
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When speak toThe Wrap , Huey , a Japanese - American performing artist who play Ariel in a 2017 touring production of the 2008 Broadway stage translation of the film , volunteer some advice to Bailey about dealing with the troll , and related her own experience as the first actress of vividness to have donned the fishtail and grapple . Huey stated that “ If she can stay positive and just remember , there ’s more funding than there is hatred . It ’s an important fight to struggle and she ’s not alone . ” She also state that internal representation would “ make the world just a more opened - given place , ” and tie in a time after a operation in middle America where a white woman was moved to tears due to her adopted Asiatic daughter being able to see someone on degree in whom she could see herself .
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