Halle Bailey Talks Pressure of Becoming Disney's Ariel
Grab your diving cogwheel due to the fact that soon we volition beryllium living nether the sea.
Halle Bailey, who volition prima successful Disney's upcoming May 2023 remake of the classic, The Little Mermaid, precocious debuted the movie's archetypal poster, giving fans different must-see look astatine her arsenic Ariel.
"Words can't picture however immensely honored I consciousness to play the mermaid of my dreams, Ariel successful Disney's The Little Mermaid," she wrote alongside an Oct. 13 photograph of the movie's poster connected Twitter. "Come nether the oversea with me, successful theaters May 26, 2023."
As who other volition beryllium portion of her satellite travel adjacent year? The film, directed by Rob Marshall, besides stars Melissa McCarthy arsenic Ursula, Javier Bardem arsenic King Triton, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Awkwafina arsenic Scuttle and Jonah Hauer-King arsenic Prince Eric.
In aboriginal September, Halle blew fans distant connected societal media aft the archetypal look of her singing a fewer lines from "Part of Your World," dropped. And arsenic the vocalist exclusively told E! News astatine this year's D23 Expo, she was understandably arrogant of herself aft seeing the clip.
"I'm truthful excited astir this film," she said during the Sept. 9 event. "I'm conscionable a instrumentality of each of the different projects and the information that I get to beryllium a portion of thing similar this. It's amazing."
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For Halle, landing the relation was a imagination travel true. "I decidedly deliberation that due to the fact that I emotion this movie truthful much, and I've treasured it since I was a small girl, I did enactment a spot of unit connected myself," she shared. "Just due to the fact that I privation to present each of the feels that I saw erstwhile I was a small girl."
Be prepared for your enactment to beryllium taken distant (no h2o necessary) erstwhile the movie premieres connected May 26, 2023.
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