Grown-ish shared the major casting news for the upcoming Peter Pan and Wendy movie. “Sprinkle that fairy dust all over this news,” they tweeted. “@YaraShahidi as Tinkerbell in @disney's upcoming live-action #PeterPanandWendy.”Within hours of the announcement, Twitter users were posting fan art of Shahidi and elated messages.
With Halle Bailey cast as Ariel in , many on Twitter are excited to see more diverse representation in the Disney catalog. “We’re getting Yara Shahidi as Tinkerbell AND Halle Bailey as Ariel????
THIS IS WHAT I LIKE TO SEE,” one user wrote. “Black women: WINNING. Racists: mad.”There were also, of course, plenty of people asking why Disney continues to remake its own classics, which is a valid question…but back to Yara.
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