Rebecca Black is opening up about a super-sketchy thing that happened in her past!
15.09.2022 - 00:59 / variety.com
Zack Sharf “The Little Mermaid” star Halle Bailey is in “awe” over the reaction to the live-action film’s first trailer, which debuted Sept. 9 at D23. The brief clip includes a first look at Bailey singing “Part of Your World” as the mermaid Ariel. Parents on TikTok have been uploading clips of their young children watching the 90-second teaser trailer, a supercut of which found its way to Bailey herself. “People have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and I’m truly in awe,” Bailey wrote on Twitter while sharing a surpercut of young Black girls becoming emotional while watching the trailer. “This means the world to me.” Kerry Washington also shared a supercut of Black girls reacting to “The Little Mermaid” teaser. One of the girls in the video shouts at the screen, “She’s like me! She’s like me!” when Bailey’s Ariel makes her debut.
“I can’t stop watching these,” Washington wrote. “Halle Bailey, see what you’re doing to us?” Rob Marshall directed the live-action “Little Mermaid,” which stars Bailey opposite Daveed Diggs, Jacob Tremblay, Awkwafina, Jonah Hauer-King, Javier Bardem and Melissa McCarthy. While many have championed Bailey’s casting, she has been subjected to racist backlash on social media from some fans who are upset that a Black actor is playing Ariel. The hashtag #NotMyAriel sprung up on Twitter after Bailey’s casting, but she told Variety that her family helped her drown out the backlash. Bailey’s grandparents shared their own memories with her of the racism and discrimination that they had endured in their lifetimes. “It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, ‘You don’t understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the
Rebecca Black is opening up about a super-sketchy thing that happened in her past!
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor TikTok can add jet fuel to entertainment marketers’ messages — but they have to learn how to speak the language of the platform to effectively harness the creativity of its creators. That was one of the key takeaways from the Variety/TikTok Culture Catalysts Dinner, held in West Hollywood on Sept. 20. Paramount Pictures’ approach with its TikTok campaign for blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” — 2022’s top-grossing movie at the box office so far — was to introduce the nearly 40-year-old flyboy franchise to Gen Z, said Danielle De Palma, EVP of global marketing for the studio. With TikTok, its biggest goal was to reach “younger audiences that didn’t have that same emotional, nostalgic connection to the film that so many of the older audiences did,” De Palma said.
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Halle Bailey is the star of Disney’s live-action remake of The Little Mermaid. A teaser for the film directed by Rob Marshall was released during the D23 Expo and the reactions have been outstanding.
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One viral TikTok, captioned, “when your favorite Disney princess looks like you,” shows a 3-year-old girl immediately sitting up once Ariel swims across the screen.Little Avery gasps and becomes completely entranced by the trailer. She puts her hand over her heart and says, “I think she’s brown.”Absolutely beaming, the young girl declares “brown Ariel is cute.” The video quickly amassed 5.3 million views and thousands of comments from people expressing their love for the heartwarming video, including Bailey herself.
The Little Mermaid live action, the film received backlash. People could not fathom how a white fictional character could be played by a young Black woman.WATCH: Girls react to a Black Ariel However, the 2023 film has received some praise following the trailer’s release, and it did not come from critics but rather impressionable young girls.“I think she’s brown!” cheered one little Black girl in a reaction video compliation shared to TikTok.