Shahidi will play Tinker Bell in the upcoming 'Peter Pan & Wendy,' while Bailey will star as Ariel in 'The Little Mermaid.'
She said that despite the fact that both have faced racist backlash for their castings, overall “what’s been beautiful is seeing the response to both of our characters and seeing how many people feel included in this fairy tale, while also maintaining the magic that we love in the first place.
Shahidi continued, “I think oftentimes people think of diversity and inclusion as threatening or jeopardizing the quality of the story, instead of seeing how beautifully they can be interwoven together to create something that impacts even more people, that lets even more people into stories that we love.”Peter Pan & Wendy,
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