When The Little Mermaid director Rob Marshall first heard actor and singer Halle Bailey performing the 1989 film's song Part of Your World, he was moved to tears.
"She needs an exquisite sort of angelic voice because it's part of the story, but also she needs to be passionate and strong.Marshall says Bailey fit the bill and scored the part after auditioning against hundreds of other girls of different ethnicities.
"I think my own identity represents this young woman who is not quite sure of herself [and] not there yet," Bailey says. The filmmakers noted they wanted to include aspects of Bailey's identity in Ariel, including her natural hair. "It's like at the same time you can do an homage to somebody and you can also kind of poke fun at it.
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