Halle Bailey Is “Truly In Awe” As Black Girls React To ‘The Little Mermaid’ Teaser

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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.

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.