{"id":1204759,"date":"2022-09-15T08:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/watch-were-not-crying-you-are-halle-bailey-loves-how-black-girls-react-to-the-little-mermaid-teaser-trailer\/"},"modified":"2022-09-15T08:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-15T08:03:03","slug":"watch-were-not-crying-you-are-halle-bailey-loves-how-black-girls-react-to-the-little-mermaid-teaser-trailer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/15\/watch-were-not-crying-you-are-halle-bailey-loves-how-black-girls-react-to-the-little-mermaid-teaser-trailer\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: We\u2019re not crying, you are! Halle Bailey loves how black girls react to \u2018The Little Mermaid\u2019 teaser trailer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image-prod.iol.co.za\/16x9\/800?source=https:\/\/xlibris.public.prod.oc.inl.infomaker.io:8443\/opencontent\/objects\/9db027be-c01c-598d-b2ad-319ebb5a2f21&amp;operation=CROP&amp;offset=0x0&amp;resize=1280x720\" class=\"type:primaryImage\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Washington \u2013 The trailer the live-action adaptation of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d, starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall, has been unveiled by Disney at the D23 Expo. <\/p>\n<p>Recently, Bailey shared people\u2019s reactions after the teaser release.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to Twitter, Bailey re-shared a video and added a caption. She wrote: \u201cPeople have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and I\u2019m in truly in awe. This means the world to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">people have been sending these reactions to me all weekend and i\u2019m in truly in awe \u2665\ufe0fthis means the world to me \ud83d\udc97\ud83d\ude2d https:\/\/t.co\/cuKjKN8nxH<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Halle (@HalleBailey) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HalleBailey\/status\/1569455744046747648?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 12, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the trends that went viral on TikTok featured black girls watching Bailey singing \u201cPart of Your World\u201d, Deadline reported.<\/p>\n<p>In one video, a girl got emotional and was heard saying, \u201cShe\u2019s brown like me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The young girls\u2019 reactions moved people on social media, showing that representation matters. Netizens also tagged Bailey, who retweeted a supercut of the reactions shared online.<\/p>\n<p>According to Deadline, the upcoming movie is slated to hit theatres on May\u00a026. At the D23 expo event, Bailey said it was the first time she had seen footage of the film. \u201cI\u2019m sure all of you in here can relate to Ariel and how special she is to all of us,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<div>!function(e,t,r){let n;if(e.getElementById(r))return;const a=e.getElementsByTagName(\u201cscript\u201d)[0];n=e.createElement(\u201cscript\u201d),n.id=r,n.defer=!0,n.src=\u201dhttps:\/\/playback.oovvuu.media\/player\/v1.js\u201d,a.parentNode.insertBefore(n,a)}(document,0,\u201doovvuu-player-sdk\u201d);<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBeing a little girl swimming in the pool, imagining I was a mermaid, I never imagined that would come to life. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe three days filming \u2018Part of Your World\u2019 was the most beautiful experience of my life \u2013 feeling all the feelings she feels, her passion, discomfort, everything she\u2019s experiencing. It was so exciting for me to play those emotions and to have Rob directing me and being such a moving force on this film was really an honour.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The movie is based on Disney\u2019s 1989 animated classic, which was itself based on a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen. The story centres on the mermaid princess Ariel, who makes a Faustian bargain with the sea witch Ursula in an attempt to become human and win the love of a prince.<\/p>\n<p>Clements and John Musker wrote and directed the original film, which became an instant classic upon its release, grossing over $211\u00a0million worldwide and winning Academy Awards for best music, original score, original song, along with two Golden Globes, a Grammy and other accolades, reported Deadline.<\/p>\n<p>David Magee and Jane Goldman scripted the new take, in which Bailey stars as Ariel, with Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Jonah Hauer-King as Prince Eric and Javier Bardem as King Triton.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the development of the live-action \u201cLittle Mermaid\u201d began in 2016. It will feature songs created for the original film, as well as new ones penned by original composer Alan Menken, with lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/lifestyle\/family\/parenting\/watch-were-not-crying-you-are-halle-bailey-loves-how-black-girls-react-to-the-little-mermaid-teaser-trailer-ac61baf6-95e5-5a8a-9de3-ea753acb6d25\">Source <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2013 The trailer the live-action adaptation of \u201cThe Little Mermaid\u201d, starring Halle Bailey and directed by Rob Marshall, has been unveiled by Disney at the D23 Expo. Recently, Bailey shared people\u2019s reactions after the teaser release. Taking to Twitter, Bailey re-shared a video and added a caption. She wrote: \u201cPeople have been sending these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1204759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1204759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}