Zendaya rumored to play Ariel in Live action Little mermaid movie
Disney's live-action The Little Mermaid movie is rumored to have offered the lead role of Ariel to Disney Channel actress and singer Zendaya. Over the last decade, Walt Disney Studios has had great success in adapting their animated classics to live-action movies. Whether the live-action films put a new spin on the material - like Maleficent and Alice in Wonderland - or were nearly straight adaptations of the animated movies, such as Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, Disney has found a way to
How fitting if true. She's already taken the role of a redhead before when she played Mary Jane in Spiderman, why not remove more redhead representation by going out for the part of Ariel as well? This is the problem with "blind" or "diversity" casting - you can sometimes end up stifling the representation of other marginalised groups because just because a character is white doesn't mean that they're completely privileged. I notice that there is no way a black actor would dream of trying out fo