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It's a rainy afternoon in Beverly Hills, and Halle Bailey is coziness personified. The trailer, of course, is for the upcoming live-action remake of Disney's The Little Mermaid, in which Bailey stars as Ariel. Growing up, she says she was moved by the 2009 Disney animated film The Princess and the Frog, in which actor and singer Anika Noni Rose plays the titular princess. "[Ariel still] has red hair, because that's a very iconic part of her, but I really did admire the fact that because I'm a Black woman and I have locs, [the producers] wanted to incorporate that into Ariel's look.". [Extracted from the article] |