THE LITTLE MERMAID Star Halle Bailey Sports Red Braids & A Familiar Outfit In New Set Photos

THE LITTLE MERMAID Star Halle Bailey Sports Red Braids & A Familiar Outfit In New Set Photos

Some more photos from the set of Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid movie have found their way online, and this time star Halle Bailey is looking a lot more like the Ariel we know and love...

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By MarkCassidy - Jun 23, 2021 04:06 AM EST
Filed Under: Disney

Disney's live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid is now filming in Italy, and we recently got a first glimpse of star Halle Bailey as Ariel sporting what appeared to be some kind of wetsuit. Now, some far more revealing set photos have been shared online, and they see the actress don a look that should be more familiar to fans of the animated classic.

While it wasn't immediately clear from the blurry snaps, Bailey is indeed sporting red (well, auburn) locks here, and she's also ditched the diving gear for the burlap dress Ariel wears when she first makes her way to dry land in the original.

Based on what we've seen so far, director Rob Marshall will be taking a few liberties with the story, but these photos should assuage concerns that he's planning to ditch everything from the 1989 movie.

Bailey stars alongside Jonah-Hauer King as Prince Eric, Melissa McCarthy as Ursula, Javier Bardem as King Triton, Jacob Tremblay as Flounder, Daveed Diggs as Sebastian, and Awkwafina as Scuttle.

The Little Mermaid will feature music from the animated classic as well as four new songs. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who previously worked with director Rob Marshall on Mary Poppins Returns, will also compose original music for Mermaid along with Alan Menken.

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MrCamw1
MrCamw1 - 6/23/2021, 4:38 AM
I JUST realized she part of that Chloe x Haile music group.
MikeyL
MikeyL - 6/23/2021, 4:46 AM
I’d have rather the red hair be more vibrant, but honestly she looks great. I wasn’t expecting a straight adaptation of her look from the cartoon, but the fact she is a realistic shade of ginger is still better than nothing! The green tail is probably more important to me, and still even then it’s not world ending
MikeyL
MikeyL - 6/23/2021, 4:49 AM
@MikeyL - also, this is before being colour graded in post, so it may still yet be more red
Conquistador
Conquistador - 6/23/2021, 4:57 AM
@MikeyL - Probably, and im sure all the underwater scenes will have GCI hair ala Aquaman, so will definitley get a boost.
Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 6/23/2021, 5:04 AM
She looks like she should be chained to a bulldozer in a forest somewhere, protesting against logging.
DTor91
DTor91 - 6/23/2021, 5:49 AM
@Tasmaniac - Ah so you’re really here just to make absolutely asinine statements.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/23/2021, 6:22 AM
@Tasmaniac - Haha what?
marvel72
marvel72 - 6/23/2021, 6:06 PM
@Tasmaniac - That made me chuckle.
Tasmaniac
Tasmaniac - 6/24/2021, 3:14 AM
@DTor91 - Oh why don’t you go find a sense of humour. Wanker.
Manmarvel
Manmarvel - 6/23/2021, 5:09 AM
I don't give two shakes of a snake's d!ck what color her skin is, but her hair color always needed to be red. Glad they went this route.
Nightwing1015
Nightwing1015 - 6/23/2021, 5:49 AM
@Manmarvel - Why would her hair colour need to be red any more than her skin needed to be white?
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/23/2021, 6:23 AM
@Manmarvel - This is the very definition of flawed logic at its core. You can't get any more flawed. I hooe you are being sarcastic.
Manmarvel
Manmarvel - 6/23/2021, 6:28 AM
@Nightwing1015 - glad you asked. It was the most iconic part of her Disney cartoon look imo. Also Red Hair is a genetic thing, a rarer genetic portion of the population that is loosing their representation in Hollywood. Thought this was going to be another case of that.
Manmarvel
Manmarvel - 6/23/2021, 6:29 AM
@CorndogBurglar - do explain.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/23/2021, 7:29 AM
@Manmarvel - Because the color of one's hair has the same level of impact as someone's skin color. So if you are okay with a character's skin color being changed it seems very odd that you are NOT okay with hair color being changed.
Chuck420Taylor
Chuck420Taylor - 6/23/2021, 7:52 AM
@CorndogBurglar - I think @manmarvel MAY be a redhead and doesn't want to lose any representation in Hollywood. I can't think of many characters off hand that have natural red hair on screen.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/23/2021, 9:36 AM
@CorndogBurglar - I think the hair color has a more definitive, striking look. Some may not correlate skin color as that important. I may be not pro race change, but, I mainly, if race changing was the goal, would've preferred an actress with softer features and the character to have more red-like hair. Much like how I'm not into Scar's look being balding in the newer Lion King remake.
dagenspear
dagenspear - 6/23/2021, 9:36 AM
@Nightwing1015 - I think the hair color has a more definitive, striking look. Some may not correlate skin color as that important. I may be not pro race change, but, I mainly, if race changing was the goal, would've preferred an actress with, what I think is, softer features and the character to have more red-like hair. Much like how I'm not into Scar's look being balding in the newer Lion King remake.
Nerdman3000
Nerdman3000 - 6/23/2021, 10:42 AM
@CorndogBurglar - I kind of get where @manmarvel is coming from here. When you see a image of a mermaid with red hair, the first thing that pops into your head is Ariel from the Little Mermaid. A mermaid with a different hair color doesn’t invoke Ariel as quickly or whatever.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/23/2021, 10:51 AM
@Nerdman3000 - If you see a mermaid with black skin do instantly invoke Ariel? I don't think it does. And if it does, then it isn't the changing of their skin or hair that does it, its just the fact that Ariel is by far the most well known fictional mermaid in thr world and you would think of her if you saw ANY mermaid.
Nerdman3000
Nerdman3000 - 6/23/2021, 3:53 PM
@CorndogBurglar - If I see a blonde Mermaid or a Brunette Mermaid, I honestly don’t immediately think of Ariel. While Ariel’s skin color definitely doesn’t matter, I would argue the only iconic aspects of hers that do are the red hair, green tail, and the beautiful voice.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/23/2021, 5:13 AM
I'm kinda hoping they make some massive deviatations form the source material. Instead of her being an actual mermaid, she is just a surfer that got bit by a weird fish or stung by a weird plant that made her imagine her life as a mermaid.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 6/23/2021, 6:33 AM
@bkmeijer - I wouldd prefer her origin be that she was captured by a government agency and forced to eat fish for most of her life, making the weird things our parents tell us as kids true. "If you eat too much of something you're going to turn into it."

It would have so much deep meaning. Then we would see the sad realistic inevitability of the government training her to seek out out underwater mines in hostile territories during war time, much like what they do with dolphins. Only now they have a human mind doing the dirty work instead of the world's horniest animals locating the mines and accidentally setting off due to their inescapable urge to hump everything they see.

And she would definitely fall in love with her fully human trainer, who does not return her feelings because....well....fish parts.

It would be a multi-layered and meaningful film focusing on the myths we're told as kids, blended with the lengths the military is willing to go to win wars, mixed with a deep look inside ourselves as humans and the lines we draw when it comes to true love.

Thats my vision anyway....
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 6/23/2021, 7:32 AM
@CorndogBurglar - okay let me add my vision to that. During one of the mine sweeps is when she gets bitten or stung and imagines her live as a mermaid, and it is when she meets her trainer again she imagines him as a surfer stoner dude.

And while she thinks he believes her mermaid story because she thinks he is a stoner, he knows the truth about her being a government trained mine sweeper and thus tries to make her see the truth.

So not only will the movie be about focusing on military and myths, it's also about self-discovery of the protagonist and through her eyes we will discover all those things.
KWilly
KWilly - 6/23/2021, 5:13 AM
She reminds me of the Splice girl
KWilly
KWilly - 6/23/2021, 5:21 AM
@Waddles - I'm sorry, it's just so noticeable.
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