“As a Black person, you just expect it and it’s not really a shock anymore,” Bailey says of the backlash to her casting as Ariel
Being the perfect Ariel, however, doesn’t mean sticking to the animated redhead of the 1989 original. One of the ways Bailey made the character her own was by wearing her hair in the same locs she’s had since she was three years old.
“As a Black woman, hair is spiritual, especially locs,” Bailey shares. “It was really cool for them to make Ariel a version of me with my locs. I feel like that’s what mermaid hair would be anyway.”As Bailey hints, however, the differences in her Ariel go beyond appearance. For one: in this version, Prince Eric is more of a “cherry on top” than the main course that makes Ariel desperate to be part of a different world.], when we were younger, she gave up everything for the guy.
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