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Halle Bailey—who plays Ariel successful the upcoming live-action mentation of The Little Mermaid—shared however she overcame her "nerves" implicit the iconic relation successful an exclusive interrogation with E! News.
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Halle Bailey is acceptable for her instrumentality connected Ariel to go a portion of your world.
With the merchandise of Disney's The Little Mermaid remake conscionable months away, the histrion exclusively told E! News that playing the titular character has been thing abbreviated of "a imagination travel true." In fact, Halle cannot hold to spot however audiences volition respond to the caller live-action mentation of the beloved movie—even if she was a small tense astatine first.
"I don't consciousness immoderate unit anymore," she explained during an interrogation astir Chloe and Halle's PINK Holiday Gift Guide. "I deliberation that earlier I started filming, I did consciousness immoderate nerves people due to the fact that the movie is truthful important to truthful galore people."
According to Halle, she was capable to flooded the archetypal time jitters acknowledgment to her adjacent friends and family, including sister Chloe Bailey. "I conscionable thin connected them and I cognize that I conscionable springiness it my 100 percent," she continued. "I did my best, that's each I tin do. I'm conscionable truly grateful to spot it each play out."
Having grown up playing mermaids successful the excavation with Chloe, Halle is besides excited to present Ariel to a caller generation. The 22-year-old said what "touches maine the most" astir her relation has been watching kids' reactions to her show of "Part of Your World," which was archetypal dropped successful September.
"It conscionable makes maine cry," Halle shared. "The information that each these small Black and Brown babies are going to beryllium capable to consciousness similar they're being represented is truly peculiar to me. I cognize that if I had that erstwhile I was younger, it would person changed a full batch for maine and my position connected who I americium arsenic an individual."
Sharing however she's "super honored" to play a Disney princess, Halle added, "I'm conscionable truly grateful to benignant of beryllium successful this presumption and I conscionable anticipation everybody truly enjoys the film."
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Out successful theaters connected May 26, 2023, The Little Mermaid also stars Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Awkwafina as Scuttle and Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric.
Previously, Halle described filming the movie arsenic "the toughest experience," though it "has made maine truthful overmuch stronger than one ever thought one could be."
"I consciousness truthful grateful to person experienced this movie successful each of its glory," Halle wrote successful a July 2021 Instagram post. "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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