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Halle Bailey Getting LOTS of Celebrity Love for The Little Mermaid
Disney spared nary disbursal making The Little Mermaid portion of our world.
Camille Friend, a hairstylist who worked connected the caller live-action mentation of the beloved mermaid classic, revealed accumulation spent six-figures on Halle Bailey's hairsbreadth transformation, which saw the actress' locs instrumentality connected Princess Ariel's signature reddish color.
"I'm not guesstimating, but we astir apt spent astatine slightest $150,000 due to the fact that we had to redo it and instrumentality it out," Camille told Variety successful an nonfiction published May 26. "You couldn't usage it, and we'd person to commencement again. It was a process."
Camille said it was important to Halle, the archetypal Black histrion to represent a live-action Disney princess, to enactment existent to herself and her Black identity.
"I went to conscionable with Halle's family," she recalled. "Her parent is spiritual and they're a benignant family. I started to recognize who she was and wherefore the earthy hairsbreadth constituent was important to keep."
Since Halle's locs were implicit 24 inches agelong astatine the clip of filming, Camille ruled against hiding them due to the fact that "putting her successful a wig was going to look crazy." Instead, she turned to different solution: wrapping hairsbreadth astir Halle's earthy hair.
"If we instrumentality hairsbreadth and wrapper it astir her locs, we don't person to chopped them and we don't person to colour them," Camille explained. "We tin alteration her colour without changing her interior hairsbreadth structure. Her operation and her hairsbreadth are her."
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And Halle couldn't beryllium much thrilled with the outcome.
"I've had my locs since I was 5, truthful they're a immense portion of who I am," she told Ebony successful a May 2023 screen story. "We request to beryllium capable to spot ourselves, we request to beryllium capable to spot our hairsbreadth connected large screens similar this, truthful that we cognize that it's beauteous and much than acceptable."
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