Melissa McCarthy and Javier Bardem are praising their TheLittleMermaid leading lady, Halle Bailey.
If you are using ad-blocking software, please disable it and reload the page.Bardem said that Bailey has more than Ariel's spirit, she has an energy that's impossible to miss."She has this thing where you cannot take your eyes off her. She has this aura. She has this beautiful glimpse all over her that you are born with it or you're not. And she has it," he shares.
"Being around [Bailey], it is an experience and privilege, I think, to be in her glow," McCarthy adds."Because she leads with kindness, she leads with integrity and I think we can't shine the light on that more. Like, we need it.", who shared her emotional response to seeing little girls seeing themselves in her rendition of the beloved character.
"It's been such a beautiful moment for me to be able to see the reactions of the babies -- it makes me just emotionally overwhelmed honestly, and I cry as soon as I watch them," Bailey admits."I think of the little girl that's still in me, honestly, and it heals that girl inside of me to watch them feel like they have representation and someone to look to, to know that they deserve to be in those places too. [It's] so important.
Bailey shared that director Rob Marshall went beyond simply casting her for representation -- he gave her the reins to stay true to herself while portraying Ariel. From pushing for Ariel to have locks as her signature red mane to Bailey changing keys or notes in the music to fit her voice. "I think naturally, I just really tried my best to stay true to myself with every choice that I would make in acting, especially in the songs," Bailey says."I was really grateful to Rob Marshall that he gave me the freedom to just be me and sing how Halle would sing.
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