If you know a 5 yr old little girl with red hair, alabaster skin and blue eyes like my daughter, you can imagine how much this will suck for her. Red heads are a tiny minority of the human race (<2%).
Honestly, this nonsense is getting old. How many reboots will they make with token minorities or women just to burnish their woke PC credentials? They tried it with Annie, Karate Kid and Fantastic Four and those flopped. They rebooted Ghostbusters, Oceans Eleven and (again) Karate Kid with chicks and they flopped. Just leave well enough alone and make something new worth watching with minorities or women in it instead of trying to steal the shine off a legitimate success you had nothing to do with.
I wonder if there'd be anger over casting decisions that meant:
Pocahontas is now Irish
Mulan is now Pakistani
Tiana is now Korean
Jasmine is now Norwegian
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Disney announced yesterday that it has cast black actor Halle Bailey in new film
Bailey to play central character of Ariel in Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale
On social media, thousands praised the decision and the positive impact 19-year-old Bailey's casting could have on 'young black girls'
However, others said the animation giant should have stayed true to Andersen's original red-haired, pale-skinned incarnation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7212979/Casting-Halle-Bailey-Little-Mermaid-make-sparks-joy.html
Honestly, this nonsense is getting old. How many reboots will they make with token minorities or women just to burnish their woke PC credentials? They tried it with Annie, Karate Kid and Fantastic Four and those flopped. They rebooted Ghostbusters, Oceans Eleven and (again) Karate Kid with chicks and they flopped. Just leave well enough alone and make something new worth watching with minorities or women in it instead of trying to steal the shine off a legitimate success you had nothing to do with.
I wonder if there'd be anger over casting decisions that meant:
Pocahontas is now Irish
Mulan is now Pakistani
Tiana is now Korean
Jasmine is now Norwegian
*************
Disney announced yesterday that it has cast black actor Halle Bailey in new film
Bailey to play central character of Ariel in Hans Christian Andersen's classic tale
On social media, thousands praised the decision and the positive impact 19-year-old Bailey's casting could have on 'young black girls'
However, others said the animation giant should have stayed true to Andersen's original red-haired, pale-skinned incarnation
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-7212979/Casting-Halle-Bailey-Little-Mermaid-make-sparks-joy.html