The film’s casting of R&B singer Halle Bailey marks the first live-action black Disney princess since 1997.
She tweeted a cartoon image of the princess in which the traditionally red-headed Ariel has dark skin, brown eyes and black hair. “If your Egyptian adaptations can be white people, Ariel can be black,” wrote one Twitter user, @NiceNurse22. Bailey’s casting comes more than two decades after Disney cast singer Brandy, who is also black, as Cinderella in a live-action 1997 film.
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