Ariel’s skin tone in the upcoming blockbuster movie is causing controversy in the United States

The trailer for Disney’s big new project has already attracted a lot of attention with over 20 million views. Now, a small, but vocal group is lighting up the Internet as singer Halle Bailey plays Ariel – and she’s black.

In SVT Morgonstudion, Helle Schunesson notes that the criticism is somewhat blurred in that it is, after all, a “mythical creature”. She further points out that it is difficult to claim that the casting is not “realistic”.

It’s hard to claim that it’s not historically true because mermaids don’t really exist. She also says that they don’t seem to have anything to do with the original HC Andersen story.

The common anger of the hardline masses

This isn’t the first time in film history that the sweat of the cast has attracted so much attention. In the new series The Rings of Power inspired by Amazon’s Lord of the Rings series, audiences are disturbed, among other things, by the fact that some elves are played by blacks.

The criticism is that he doesn’t feel the truth either. Again, elves don’t really exist. She says it would be more untragic if she was blue or green.

Viral clips of happy kids on social media

However, not all fans are dissatisfied with the choice of actors. With criticism of the film spread online, viral clips of jubilant children crying tears of joy at seeing themselves cast in a Disney princess are also circulating on social media. “She looks like me,” exclaims one girl when she first sees the trailer.

Shawnson points out that it was not unusual for whites in Hollywood to change race in roles, often without facing the same storm of criticism. For example, Christian Bale played the character of the biblical Moses, and in the movie Lone Ranger, which is about a Native American man, Johnny Depp plays the man.

They defended the actors with the fact that there might have been a Native American in Depp’s family if you went back far, she says.

In the clip, you see the new mermaid’s wife and some reactions posted on social networking sites.