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| This photo collage of Halle Bailey and redheads with locs is courtesy of Onlyalisa who wrote, "I’m sure you guys heard about Halle Bailey taking the role as the little Mermaid “live-action movie”... Finger’s double crossed Disney does red locs, because they have much awesomeness to work with. Hopefully, when the merchandise hit‘s the retail market we get lots of dolls & figures <— I hope." |
Onlyaisa, a member of my doll group, created the above photo collage which includes several redheaded loc-wearing women flanked around a large center photo of singer/actress Halle Bailey. Halle is better known by most as one-half of the singing sister duo Chloe x Halle with Halle being the younger of the two talented singers. They became an Internet sensation a few years back prior to being signed by Beyoncé's management company. Both sisters star in the Freeform sit-com grown-ish, a spin-off of ABC's black-ish.
OnlyAlisa's inspiration for the collage was Disney's announcement this week of their decision to cast Halle as Ariel in the live-action musical production of The Little Mermaid. Most people are excited for Halle and applaud Disney for thinking outside the box. Disney, like many others, realize that a fictional character, such as a singing mermaid, can be represented in live-action (and in animation) by anyone with the necessary talent, as indicated by Rob Marshall, the producer, who made the following statement.
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. [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/disney-finds-little-mermaid-star-singer-halle-bailey-1220951]Twitter user, BossLogic has imagined Bailey as Ariel to look like this.
Unfortunately, there are those who feel slighted by Disney's Ariel selection and have voiced their great displeasure with online petitions and at least one known Facebook group (Make Ariel White Again) created in protest. (?!?)
To counter the petition against Bailey as Ariel, another petition, "Keep Halle Bailey as Ariel" has been started. (Links to these petitions and Facebook group are not shared here because Disney will do what Disney knows best.)
The original character's red hair does not engrave in stone that all future Ariel characters (animated or human) must be of European descent. By definition, "In folklore, a mermaid is an aquatic creature with the head and upper body of a female human and the tail of a fish." Any female human with the appropriate costume can, therefore, portray a mermaid.
In a country where children have been separated from their parents for extended periods with no hope of being reunited; placed in deplorable, crowded conditions in cages with inadequate food, water, and sanitation; aluminum blankets for cover while they sleep on floors, and God only knows what other physical, mental, and sexual assaults they have and are still facing, for some, the concern over the complexion of a Disney fictional character seems more important.
I remain happy for Halle Bailey, applaud Disney for choosing the best person they felt could portray Ariel, and like Onlyalisa, look forward to seeing the manufacture of dolls and other merchandise to represent the new face of Ariel. I think red locs would be pretty cool, too.
Congratulations Ms. Bailey! I know your live-action portrayal of The Little Mermaid will rock!
Read more about Halle at the following links:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1782991/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_x_Halle
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