Evette Dionne: I was a little Black girl with all the 'Little Mermaid' merchandise. My inner child is headed out to buy more.
May 26, 2023, 6:00 PM UTCWhen I was growing up in the 1990s, the Black girls in my neighborhood had VHS watch parties featuring"The Little Mermaid." We persuaded our parents to buy us"Little Mermaid' comforter sets and light-up sneakers, and we obsessed over Ariel. We wanted to be her, even though with her white skin and straight hair she didn’t resemble us at all.
Today’s Black girls are about to see something we could never have imagined even as we clung to our fairy tales: Disney’s live-action remake of “is hitting theaters this weekend and, for the first time, we will see a Black Ariel, played by Halle Bailey — and she even has locs … like me. But in this update of the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tale, Ariel not only looks different, but she also behaves different. She’s seeking to better understand herself, not just pining for romantic love. “I’m really excited for my version of the film because we’ve definitely changed that perspective of just her wanting to leave the ocean for a boy,”. “It’s way bigger than that. It’s about herself, her purpose, her freedom, her life and what she wants.
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