Halle Berry doesn't not look all that black in her features, but a black "Ariel" is a little annoying. Ignoring the part about this being a Hans Christian Anderson tale from Denmark, they had already cast Ariel as white.
One of my pet peeves in movies is gender changes, or race changes to an already existing character. If they want a character of a specific gender or ethnicity, they need to just begin with such a character and not try to put their "woke" bullsh*t on the rest of us.
Another thing that makes it annoying is this is Disney which is just doing this for the purpose of their "woke" virtue signaling, and not because they think this will improve the story or the character.
It's more of that "Diversity Uber Alles!" bullsh*t.
I'm tired of them sneak preaching at me with these poorly disguised efforts to promote their politics.
It’s not Halle Berry, it’s Halle Bailey. She’s a singer and considerably younger than Berry.
Laurence Olivier played Othello.