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At conscionable 23 years old, Halle Bailey has loads of bragging rights and an incredibly awesome resume: she’s a Disney princess! The histrion and talented vocalist is playing Ariel successful The Little Mermaid, the 2023 live-action remake of the 1989 beloved animated classic.
Possibly much impressive, Halle edged retired galore different actresses for the coveted role. “After an extended search, it was abundantly wide that Halle possesses that uncommon operation of spirit, heart, youth, innocence, and substance — positive a glorious singing dependable — each intrinsic qualities indispensable to play this iconic role,” manager Rob Marshall said successful a property release. Here’s what you should cognize astir the histrion arsenic she steps into the spotlight.
Halle Bailey arsenic Ariel successful ‘The Little Mermaid.’ (Disney)
Halle stars arsenic Ariel successful The Little Mermaid.
Halle knows that playing Ariel connected the large surface is simply a life-changing infinitesimal for her and others. After the merchandise of the archetypal trailer for The Little Mermaid, videos went viral connected societal media of kids, particularly young Black girls, reacting to Halle’s Ariel. “I’m conscionable successful a changeless authorities of awe and truthful grateful that they are capable to spot themselves successful a quality similar Ariel,” she told GMA. “I mean, we merit to person practice wherever we tin look and say, ‘Wow, I’m worthy too. She looks similar me. I person a doll that looks similar me.’ It’s truthful peculiar and, you know, I’m conscionable truthful grateful to adjacent beryllium a portion of this.”
The movie has been modernized for today’s audiences, and Ariel isn’t conscionable leaving the oversea for a boy, a.k.a. Prince Eric. “I’m truly excited for my mentation of the movie due to the fact that we’ve decidedly changed that position of conscionable her wanting to permission the water for a boy,” the histrion told The Hollywood Reporter. “It’s mode bigger than that. It’s astir herself, her purpose, her freedom, her life, and what she wants.”
Halle makes up one-half of the singing duo Chloe x Halle.
Halle gained notoriety for her duets with older sister Chloe Bailey, which they would upload to YouTube. Although they play twins connected Freeform’s Grown-ish, they’re really 2 years isolated successful property (Halle was calved successful 2000, Chloe successful 1998). Fun fact: The talented duo recorded the taxable song, “Grown,” for the tv series! In April 2016, they dropped their debut EP, Sugar Symphony, and released their archetypal full-length album, The Kids Are Alright, in March 2018. Showing disconnected their philharmonic prowess adjacent more, Chloe and Halle performed astatine some the 2019 Grammy Awards and sang “America the Beautiful” astatine the 2019 Super Bowl.
Beyoncé has been Halle and Chloe’s mentor.
Queen Bey has opened up the signifier to the talented sister not once, but twice! Chloe and Halle served arsenic the opening enactment during Beyonce’s European limb of The Formation World Tour and besides opened for Beyoncé and JAY-Z connected the U.S. limb of the On the Run Tour II. You tin besides drawback Halle and Chloe making cameos successful the ocular medium for Lemonade.
Beyonce inactive serves arsenic a mentor, constructive critic, and hype-girl for the sisters to this day. For instance, Chloe revealed Beyonce offered her feedback pursuing her solo show astatine the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards. “It conscionable warmed my bosom to perceive from her during that clip and to conscionable cognize I had her enactment and her love,” she gushed connected Apple Music 1’s The Dotty Show. “The mode she performs, the mode her beingness is connected signifier … she’s unthinkable and I’ve ever looked up to her.”
Halle is dating DDG.
Halle and rapper DDG were archetypal linked successful January 2022 and went nationalist with their romance a fewer months aboriginal successful March. They notably walked the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscars after-party carpet together. When asked if DDG is simply a real-life Prince Charming, Halle told PEOPLE, “People emotion to speech astir this. Yeah. I would accidental that.” She added, “I consciousness similar things alteration erstwhile emotion gets much progressive successful your life. I person decidedly discovered much wrong myself arsenic a woman. … It’s a truly chill happening to spell through, but a transformative experience.”
Halle Bailey astatine ‘The Little Mermaid’ premiere. (Ash Knotek/Shutterstock)
Halle has 4 Grammy nominations to her name.
Chloe and Halle earned their archetypal Grammy nominations successful 2019 successful the Best New Artist and Best Urban Contemporary Album categories for their debut album, The Kids Are Alright. They were nominated 2 years aboriginal astatine the 63rd Grammy Awards successful the Best Progressive R&B Album class for their sophomore album, Ungodly Hour, and successful the Best Traditional R&B Performance class for their opus “Wonder What She Thinks of Me.”
While they person not won a Grammy, the philharmonic sisters imagination of it 1 day. “I’m filled with specified gratitude,” Chloe told E!’s Giuliana Rancic following her nonaccomplishment successful 2021. “We recovered retired that we didn’t triumph the 3 awards contiguous but it’s OK, we’re going to get them adjacent time. I’m conscionable blessed that we were capable to enactment truthful overmuch emotion into the euphony that we created and can’t hold for what’s next.” That’s the spirit!
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