Halle Bailey Ignores Racist ‘The Little Mermaid’ Trolls: ‘As a Black Person, You Expect It’ and ‘It’s Not a Shock Anymore’
had to deal with another round of racist trolls using social media to complain about a Black actor taking on the role of princess Ariel. It’s hardly the first time Bailey has had to tune out racist backlash. Both her casting announcement in 2019 and the film’s first trailer last year sent racist trolls into a tizzy online.The Face
“I know people are like: ’It’s not about race.’ But now that I’m her…People don’t understand that when you’re Black there’s this whole other community,” Bailey added. “It’s so important for us to see ourselves.” “People have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and I’m truly in awe,” Bailey wrote on Twitter at the time “This means the world to me.”that he had “no agenda” when it came to the casting of Ariel and that his team auditioned “every ethnicity” for the role before landing on Bailey.
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