Halle Bailey: ‘Seeing black Little Mermaid as a child would have changed my whole life’
Halle Bailey says seeing a black Little Mermaid character as a child would have changed her “whole life”. The singer and actress, 23, is starring as mermaid Ariel in the upcoming live action remake of Disney’s 1989 ‘The Little Mermaid’ animation, and said if the cartoon had been more diverse it would have increased her “confidence”. Halle, who shot to fame as a teen pop star as one half of the duo Chloe x Halle with her older sister, told The Guardian: “I feel like, if I would have had a black mermaid, that would have been insane, that would have changed my whole perspective, my whole life, my...