Halle Bailey opened up about her reaction to the racist backlash over her being cast as Disney's Princess Ariel, and how she coped with receiving hate.
that she didn't "pay attention to the negativity,” instead focusing on gratitude as a way to ignore the backlash. Now, the star is finally speaking out about how she dealt with the online racial attacks. Thethat amidst the trolling, her grandparents offered empathetic words of support, reflecting on their own lived experiences of racism and discrimination.
“It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, 'You don't understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the little Black and brown girls who are going to see themselves in you,'” said Halle.
“I want the little girl in me and the little girls just like me who are watching to know that they’re special, and that they should be a princess in every single way," Halle added. “There’s no reason that they shouldn’t be.”director Rob Marshall even defended Halle's casting, affirming that she was the perfect person for the role despite any of the backlash.
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