{"id":1859705,"date":"2023-02-25T08:50:47","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T13:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1859705"},"modified":"2023-02-25T08:52:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T13:52:36","slug":"disneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-star-halle-bailey-dismisses-backlash-against-the-film-as-purely-racist-as-a-black-person-you-just-expect-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/disneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-star-halle-bailey-dismisses-backlash-against-the-film-as-purely-racist-as-a-black-person-you-just-expect-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s Live-Action \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d Star Halle Bailey Dismisses Backlash Against the Film as Purely Racist: \u201cAs a Black Person, You Just Expect It\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">48<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdisneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-star-halle-bailey-dismisses-backlash-against-the-film-as-purely-racist-as-a-black-person-you-just-expect-it%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1859705&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Disney&#8217;s live action helped to create the tired media defense that any criticism about the Latest Product TM is based on only bigotry. <em>The Little Mermaid <\/em>Halle Bailey, the remake star claimed recently that she found the backlash against her film&#8217;s announcement to have been expectedly racist.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_199575\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199575\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f92070bef11.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel (Halle Bailey) plays with a puffer fish in The Little Mermaid (2023), Disney\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f92070bef11.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f92070bef11-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f92070bef11-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f92070bef11-768x432-1.jpg 768w\"   style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199575\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel (Halle Bailey), playing with a pufferfish, in The Little Mermaid (2023), Disney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/09\/12\/first-trailer-for-disneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-remake-near-universally-panned-poor-visuals-and-unnecessary-existence\/\">First Trailer For Disney&#8217;s Live-Action \u2018The Little Mermaid&#8217; Remake Near Universally Panned For Poor Visuals And Unnecessary Existence<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bailey shared her thoughts about the discussion surrounding Disney&#8217;s new cash-grab. <a href=\"https:\/\/theface.com\/culture\/halle-bailey-interview-the-litte-mermaid-ariel-disney-beyonce-music-film\">An interview<\/a> Given to the fashion and style-centric magazine\u00a0<em>The Face\u00a0<\/em>(who bizarrely as shown in the photo below, treated her interview like a 1990s Geocities site).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_199577\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199577\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199577\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213.png\" alt=\"Halle Bailey appears in the Spring 2023 issue of The Face\" width=\"1450\" height=\"722\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213.png 1450w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213-1340x667-1.png 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213-768x382-1.png 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.44-boundingintocomics-63f9219184213-480x240-1.png 480w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199577\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halle Bailey appears in The Face Spring 2023 issue<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Reflecting on the widespread and well-recognized rejection by the public of <em>The Little Mermaid<\/em>\u2018s first teaser trailer \u2013 a response <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/09\/12\/first-trailer-for-disneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-remake-near-universally-panned-poor-visuals-and-unnecessary-existence\/\">It is largely fuelled<\/a> by the terrible quality of the film&#8217;s visuals and Disney&#8217;s decision to once again play into identity politics by race-swapping one of their classic characters rather than the presence of a black person specifically \u2013 Bailey asserted, &#8220;<span class=\"pull-double\">&#8220;<\/span>I know people are like: \u200b<span class=\"pull-single\">\u2018<\/span>It&#8217;s not about your race. But now that I&#8217;m her\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_199579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199579\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199579\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.47-boundingintocomics-63f9225d84bd2.jpg\" alt=\"Ariel (Halle Bailey) investigates a shipwreck in The Little Mermaid (2023), Disney\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.47-boundingintocomics-63f9225d84bd2.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.47-boundingintocomics-63f9225d84bd2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.47-boundingintocomics-63f9225d84bd2-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.47-boundingintocomics-63f9225d84bd2-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199579\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel (Halle Bailey), investigates a shipwreck at The Little Mermaid (2023), Disney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The actress continued her brief trailing off while she searched for the right words. &#8220;People don&#8217;t understand that when you&#8217;re Black there&#8217;s this whole other community. It&#8217;s so important for us to see ourselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a Black person, you just expect it and it&#8217;s not really a shock anymore,&#8221; She spoke of the backlash. &#8220;\u200bWhen [my sister Chl\u00f6e and I] first signed to [her record label] Parkwood, Beyonc\u00e9 was always like: \u200b\u2018I never read my comments. Don&#8217;t ever read the comments.&#8217; Honestly, when the teaser came out, I was at the D23 Expo and I was so happy. I didn&#8217;t see any of the negativity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_187945\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-187945\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187945\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1073\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-1340x561-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-768x322-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/2022.11.03-08.27-boundingintocomics-6364244dbe60f-600x250-1.jpg 600w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-187945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halle Bailey portrays Ariel in Disney&#8217;s live action THE LITTLE MARILANDIAN. Photo courtesy Disney. \u00a9 2022 Disney Enterprises, Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/12\/22\/disneys-the-little-mermaid-live-action-remake-director-rob-marshall-claims-we-saw-everybody-and-every-ethnicity-before-casting-race-swapped-ariel\/\">Disney&#8217;s \u2018The Little Mermaid&#8217; Live-Action Remake Director Rob Marshall Claims &#8220;We Saw Everybody And Every Ethnicity&#8221; Before Casting Race Swapped Ariel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Bailey looked at the reports that Disney&#8217;s race-swapping was justified based on reports that young African girls were excited to see someone like them onscreen. She also recalls how her friends and family sent her an overwhelming number of videos showing similar reactions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was crying all night for two days, just staring at them in disbelief,&#8221; She told The Face. &#8220;It makes me feel more grateful for where I am.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176158\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176158\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176158\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2022.08.11-07.12-boundingintocomics-62f554b867ca6-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Halle Bailey Dishes on her favorite &#039;The Little Mermaid&#039; Songs with Variety\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2022.08.11-07.12-boundingintocomics-62f554b867ca6-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022.08.11-07.12-boundingintocomics-62f554b867ca6-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2022.08.11-07.12-boundingintocomics-62f554b867ca6-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2022.08.11-07.12-boundingintocomics-62f554b867ca6-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-176158\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Halle Bailey Dishes on her favorite \u2018The Little Mermaid&#8217; Songs with Variety<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Ultimately, Bailey closed out her thoughts on the topic of stepping into the shoes of such a well-established cultural icon as Ariel \u2013 as well as those of the protagonist Nettie in the upcoming musical film adaptation of <em>The Color Purple<\/em> \u2013 by explaining, &#8220;When you&#8217;re doing a remake of anything, everyone&#8217;s gonna be like: \u200b\u2018Well, this isn&#8217;t how I liked it in the original.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u200b&#8221;I hope people like my versions [of the characters in The Color Purple and The Little Mermaid],&#8221; she declared. &#8220;But at the same time, I&#8217;ll respect it if they don&#8217;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_176170\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176170\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176170\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.08.11-07.31-boundingintocomics-62f5591cb5a1d.jpg\" alt=\"Sora (Hailey Joel Osment), Donald (Tony Anselmo) and Goofy (Bill Farmer) visit Ariel (Jodi Benson) at her home in Atlantica in Kingdom Hearts II (2005), Square Enix\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.08.11-07.31-boundingintocomics-62f5591cb5a1d.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/2022.08.11-07.31-boundingintocomics-62f5591cb5a1d-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/2022.08.11-07.31-boundingintocomics-62f5591cb5a1d-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-176170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sora (Hailey Joel Osment), Donald(Tony Anselmo), and Goofy (2 Bill Farmer) visit Ariel (1 Jodi Benson) at Kingdom Hearts II (2005). Square Enix<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Audiences will discover if Bailey is really willing to stick with her guns. <em>The Little Mermaid <\/em>Swims into theaters on May 26, 2023.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_199574\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-199574\" class=\"size-full wp-image-199574\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f9206c81936.jpg\" alt=\"Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King) moves in to kiss Ariel (Halle Bailey) in The Little Mermaid (2023), Disney\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f9206c81936.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f9206c81936-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f9206c81936-1340x754-1.jpg 1340w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/2023.02.24-08.39-boundingintocomics-63f9206c81936-768x432-1.jpg 768w\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-199574\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prince Eric (Jonah Hauerking) comes in to kiss Ariel, (Halle Bailey), in The Little Mermaid (2223), Disney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"cb-post-title\"><strong>NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/boundingintocomics.com\/2022\/08\/11\/disneys-live-action-the-little-mermaid-star-halle-bailey-responds-to-race-swap-criticisms-the-reassurance-that-little-girls-just-like-me-should-be-princesses-was-something-i-needed\/\">Disney&#8217;s Live-Action \u2018The Little Mermaid&#8217; Star Halle Bailey Responds To Race-Swap Criticisms: &#8220;The Reassurance That Little Girls Just Like Me Should Be Princesses Was Something I Needed As A Kid&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disney&#8217;s live action helped to create the tired media defense that any criticism about the Latest Product TM is based on only bigotry. The Little Mermaid Halle Bailey, the remake star claimed recently that she found the backlash against her film&#8217;s announcement to have been expectedly racist. Ariel (Halle Bailey), playing with a pufferfish, in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1859708,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[6962,19282,4265,19685,4212,4833,11601,5119,5336,19683,7454,8548,11606,3892,19684,4903,5229],"class_list":["post-1859705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-the","tag-as","tag-backlash","tag-bailey","tag-black","tag-dismisses","tag-disneys","tag-expect","tag-film","tag-halle","tag-it","tag-live-action","tag-mermaid","tag-person","tag-purely","tag-racist","tag-star"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1859705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1859705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1859708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1859705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1859705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1859705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}