The first teaser for Disney's live-action adaptation of
The Little Mermaid
has been making waves.
Revealed at the D23 conference held the weekend of September 9 in Los Angeles, these first images from the film show singer and comedian Halle Bailey take on the features of Ariel and perform the iconic
Part of Your World
.
A trailer that already has 14 million views on Youtube.
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This choice of actress never ceases to arouse reactions, especially among children.
Videos circulating on Twitter this week showed many little black girls getting excited about the trailer.
Posted by their parents on social networks, these videos show how much the choice of a black actress can affect these children, who can then identify with Disney princesses, something unprecedented or almost if we except the very late animated film
The Princess and the Frog
, released in 2009.
Comedian Halle Bailey posted and commented on these images on her Instagram account: "People have been sending me these reactions all weekend and I'm really impressed."
In these compiled images, a daughter can be heard saying to her mother: “Her skin… It looks like mine”.
"She's dark like me," remarks another excitedly as other girls can be seen covering their faces and jumping for joy.
Many similar videos have been shared on social media since the trailer's release, along with the hashtags #representationmatters ("representation matters", Editor's note) or #Blackgirlmagic to help demonstrate the importance of a diverse cast in the media.
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The 22-year-old actress mentioned last August in an interview with
Variety
, the consequences of her casting in the Disney super production in 2019, and in particular the emergence of the hashtag #NotMyAriel which protested against the choice of a black actress in the adaptation of the original fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.
The comedian said then that her grandparents had offered her some perspective: "It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, saying to me, 'You don't understand what this does for us, for our community, for all the little black and brown girls that are going to see themselves in you'", continuing: "I want the little girl in me and the little girls like me who are watching, to know that they are special and that they should be princesses in every way”.
Successful bet.
