My nana would see her family picking cotton and she experienced being restricted to only drinking from a certain water fountain, and the paper bag test.” The “brown paper bag test” to which Bailey refers is the discriminatory practice of barring darker-skinned African Americans admittance to various social institutions. “I’ve talked to them about their life experiences. Her hands become animated when she speaks, showing off a doughnut-glaze manicure. My grandpa’s a little bit older,” she says. Being a Black woman, in general, you just know the way things are and how people sometimes are just blatantly racist.” Bailey credits her paternal grandparents, natives of Moncks Corner, South Carolina – a town outside of Charleston named after a plantation slaveholder – for grounding her perspective. “I don’t really let that affect me,” she says. Her biggest role prior to Mermaid had been on Grown-ish, Kenya Barris and Larry Wilmore’s Black-ish sitcom spin-off, in which she and Chlöe played twins Sky and Jazz Forster for four series, in addition to writing and performing the show’s theme song.īailey was – and continues to be – remarkably unbothered by that static. What Bailey was capable of as an actor, however, had gone largely untested. It was just so moving.” No one ever doubted that Bailey could sing (she and Chlöe were signed to Beyoncé’s Parkwood Entertainment label as teens after Queen Bey heard their stunning YouTube covers of her hits). I couldn’t believe the depth and the truth and the simplicity and passion she brought to the song. “She came in and she sang ‘Part of Your World’. “She was the very first actress we saw for the role,” he says. And I’m like, ‘I’ll probably never hear anything back again’” – Marshall has a vastly different account. This was so important for a character that’s a mermaid and a teenage girl, who has to have this combination of strength, passion and courage, as well as a kind of naivety and innocence.” Although Bailey only remembers her audition jitters – “I get so nervous. “I mean, Halle’s so beautiful, but she also has an otherworldly sensibility. The former choreographer turned director, whose 2002 feature debut, Chicago, garnered six Academy Awards, is widely credited for reviving moviegoer interest in seeing Broadway on the big screen. “ John DeLuca and I were watching, and I said, ‘John, who is that? She looks like an angel,’” Marshall recalls. “Do you want chocolate-chip cookies? They’re famous for that here,” she offers, as her assistant, Patrick, brings her a mug of tea.īest known until now as one half of the pop R&B duo Chloe x Halle – with her older sister, Chlöe, 24 – Bailey caught the eye of The Little Mermaid director Rob Marshall ( Chicago, Mary Poppins Returns) after she and Chlöe performed Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack’s duet “Where Is The Love” at the 2019 Grammys.
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Her casual look tonight – a contrast to her event style that mixes up-and-comers such as Cucculelli Shaheen with the venerable Balmain and Valentino – more closely resembles that of a university student taking a study break than the breakout movie star she’s poised to be. She didn’t look like me,” the 23-year-old Atlanta native says, dressed in sweats, make-up free, her caramel locs pulled back in a ponytail, as she takes her trainers off and curls up on an overstuffed velvet sofa.
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“The version of Ariel in my head was the one we all know and love: pale skin and bright red hair. Despite the fact the singer-actor had been writing music since she was eight years old, opened for Beyoncé on the European leg of her Formation Tour at 16 and received five Grammy nominations before reaching the legal drinking age in the US, Bailey couldn’t picture herself playing Ariel, the Disney princess who gives up her voice and mermaid tail to be with a “spineless, savage, harpooning fish-eater” human, in the words of Ariel’s overprotective father, King Triton, from the 1989 animated original. When Halle Bailey received the call to audition for Disney’s live-action retelling of The Little Mermaid four years ago, she didn’t assume it would be for the lead.
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