It’s hard to take fair criticisms of the water in the new teaser not looking real enough when the outpouring of reaction is towards Halle Bailey being cast as a Black Ariel.

NOOOOO FICTIONAL HALF-FISH WOMEN CAN'T BE POLITICALLY COLORED IT WOULDNT BE HISTORICALLY ACCURATE LIKE THE FICTION IN THE WITCHERINO IS! :wojak-nooo:

  • Fartbutt420 [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    All this outrage drowning out the real issue here - there's and actress called Halle Bailey? That sounds way too close to Halle Berry?? Did the Hollywood PR guys not focus test this??? It's confusing????

    • The_Walkening [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      Seriously this poor young actor is getting no credit because I saw two separate articles saying it was Halle Berry.

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        lmao same, I was thinking she was way too old to play Ariel who is supposed to be a teenager

        • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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          2 years ago

          I thought that too but they do have Ryan Reynolds doing ken in that Barbie film so I thought maybe haha

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      All this outrage drowning out the real issue here...

      I disagree.

      I think the real outrage is - how come she doesn't drown when she's singing underwater?

    • Lussy [any]
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      2 years ago

      Wait, I just realized it’s not actually Halle Berry in the movie.

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      If you sound out her name in Chinese, Google assumes you mean Halle Berry. Appparently the chosen convention is to spell and pronounce Bailey's first name as "hayley" or "hǎili" which is just not the pronunciation, it should be identical to the pronunciation of Halle Berry's first name, but it isn't.

      it's all very confusing

      Coincidence??