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Halle Bailey sings "Part of Your World" successful the archetypal teaser for Disney's upcoming live-action mentation of The Little Mermaid. Dive successful and instrumentality a look.
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After a lengthy wait, Disney yet dropped the first-ever look astatine the its highly anticipated live-action mentation of The Little Mermaid. The 83-second video, which debuted during the D23 Expo connected Sept. 9, showed starring prima Halle Bailey as Ariel—complete with the iconic character's purple seashell bra, greenish mermaid process and signature reddish hair—belting retired a fewer lines from 1 of the movie's astir beloved tunes, "Part of Your World."
"Out of the sea, privation I could be," Halle sings, arsenic the camera pans retired to amusement her sitting wrong a cavern filled with gadgets and gizmos a-plenty, "part of that world."
Elsewhere successful the teaser, viewers were treated to sights of Ariel's undersea pals, including a blink-and-you'll-miss-it glimpse of her food person Flounder, voiced by Room actor Jacob Tremblay.
Directed by Rob Marshall, The Little Mermaid besides stars Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Awkwafina as Scuttle and Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric. The movie hits theaters connected May 26, 2023.
Halle was first cast arsenic the film's titular quality successful 2019. When accumulation connected the movie wrapped 2 years later, the actress-singer described the relation of Ariel arsenic "the toughest experience being distant from everything and everyone I've ever known."
"I consciousness truthful grateful to person experienced this movie successful each of its glory," Halle wrote successful an Instagram post, sharing that portion she felt "self doubt" and "loneliness" astatine times, determination were besides feelings of "freedom and perseverance" toward the end.
She continued, "This acquisition has made maine truthful overmuch stronger than I ever thought I could be."
Thanking her "lovely and talented" co-stars, Halle added, "I cannot hold for clip to velocity up truthful you each tin ticker this movie due to the fact that it was made with truthful overmuch emotion (plus humor sweat and tears)."
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