Casting Halle Bailey as Ariel Is Great. The Real Question Is: Who Will Be Her Prince?
Casting Halle Bailey as Ariel Is Great. The Real Question Is: Who Will Be Her Prince?
When news broke last week that Halle Bailey had been cast as Ariel for the new live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, I was thrilled. I’m a big fan of the show Grown-ish and her character Sky Forster has a good mix of comedic and dramatic timing. Bailey can sing, and images of red locks flowing under ocean waves is going to be a whole fashion thing come 2020. Of course, I wasn’t surprised that Twitter racists were mad; these are the same people who were mad about black stormtroopers in Star Wars, black Starfire on Teen Titans and black Hermione from Harry Potter. So let’s set aside the racists for a minute and discuss what we should really be ready to get mad about: Disney casting Halle is fantastic, but we really need to be up in arms about who they will cast as her prince... Read More.
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