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Halle Bailey says grandparents support her amid racist backlash after casting in The Little Mermaid

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Halle Bailey has opened up about the support she received from her grandparents in the wake of receiving racist backlash when she was cast as Ariel in the lead role of the live-action version of The Little Mermaid.The 22-year-old actress/singer told Variety her grandparents told her about the racism they had endured, and was boosted when they told her how important her role in the film would be.'It was an inspiring and beautiful thing to hear their words of encouragement, telling me, "You don't understand what this is doing for us, for our community, for all the little Black and brown girls who are going to see themselves in you,"' the Atlanta native told the outlet.

The latest: Halle Bailey, 22, has opened up about the support she received from her grandparents in the wake of receiving racist backlash when she was cast as Ariel in the lead role of the live-action version of The Little Mermaid.

She was pictured last December in LA Bailey said that seeing the iconic Ariel character as a person of color when she grew up would have positively impacted her self-esteem.'What that would have done for me, how that would have changed my confidence, my belief in myself, everything,' the Grown-ish star said. 'Things that seem so small to everyone else, it's so big to us.' She added: 'I want the little girl in me and the little girls just like me who are watching to know that they're special, and that they should be a princess in every single way.

There's no reason that they shouldn't be. That reassurance was something that I needed.'Disney revealed in July of 2019 that Bailey had been cast in the role of Ariel for the motion picture.

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