>> The Little Mermaid, there will be a remake.
It is a live action remake featuring a young, black actress who will play the role of Ariel.
Now, this has of course led to a bunch of controversy among people who apparently have
way too much time on their hands because they sit around thinking about how upset they are
that Ariel won't be a white woman with red hair.
Now Halle Bailey will be the actress playing the role of Ariel.
And I wanna share some of the tweets from individuals who are upset about this.
First, an individual who doesn't seem too upset, but is just asking the question, albeit
kind of an ignorant question.
I'm just saying that if a white person can't be cast as Aladdin or Jasmine, why can a black
person be cast as Ariel?
In both stories, the race of the main character affects the plot, political marriage and all
that.
Well, it could be the fact that mermaids don't exist.
>> That's one theory.
>> Okay.
>> So there's that, let me give you some more.
If I'm a Disney shareholder, then I'm pissed.
There's no way a global brand such as Little Mermaid will see a maximum return on investment
for live action movie by not casting a redhead white girl for political posturing.
Halle is tremendously talented, but this is stupid.
>> Okay, if you were only interested in maximum return on investment, first of all, casting
redheads would not be the best way to go.
There's not a high percentage of them in the population.
But most importantly, you would cast an Asian, cuz if you cared about worldwide sales, there's
more Asians.
But since they live in their own bubble they're like everybody's white, right?
If you wanna make money you would appeal to me, we're the white people, right?
No, and you know what else you'd cast a lot of, Muslims.
Cuz there's 1.6 billion Muslims in the world.
So you might wanna rethink that reasoning that you have for defending your position.
>> Look, I don't know the age of the individuals tweeting, but I would assume that they're
not little children, right?
So for a second, just take a step back and think about what it feels like to be a young
girl of color, for instance, a person of color who is never represented in any favorable
way in any of these fairy tales or any of these movies or cartoons.
You feel like you're weird or that you don't fit in.
I think it's way more important to be inclusive in this case because you want kids to feel
like they're accepted, right?
Your adult feelings don't matter in this case.
It's just so dumb and how do you have time to worry about this, how?
I got to be honest, the story got pitched today in the production meeting.
The reason why I stay away from these stories is because it frustrates me to know that there
are adults out there who think about this and get upset about this, about this.
>> No, Little Mermaid has to be white, and so does Santa Claus!
Hey, you kids, don't worry.
Santa Claus isn't black.
Remember that's what Megyn Kelly said.
Why would they be worried?
It depends on which kids, right?
And even if they were white kids, why would they be worried about that?
They're like, what if Santa Claus was black?
And then what would happen?
>> Just one more tweet.
You just ruined The Little Mermaid.
Why is it so hard to be accurate with the original animated movie?
I don't have a problem with the actress, but apparently you do, but she doesn't look like
Ariel at all.
If you want more diversity, why don't you people make new movies with new characters?
>> Okay, now to be fair, I was also upset at the live animated Aladdin cuz in the original
movie, in this movie, now all of a sudden they made the genie black.
In the original movie, he was blue.
Okay, so why couldn't you get a blue actor to play?
Keep it real and consistent with the original movie.
>> Hashtag not my Genie.
>> By the way, Mariah Carey and Halle Berry supported the actress of course, I was like,
it's not Halle Berry that's playing the role.
>> No, I had to do a double take and make sure I got my facts right