‘The Little Mermaid’ and the Black Princess Test

Into It: A Vulture Podcast with Sam Sanders

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🗓️ 23 May 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Halle Bailey stars as Ariel in the live-action remake of the classic Disney animated film. Casting a Black actress in the role caused quite a splash — which inspired us to look back at two of Disney’s forays into Black princess movies. Dr. Aria Halliday studies cultural constructions of Black girlhood and womanhood at The University of Kentucky. She and Sam break down the 1997 made for TV ‘Cinderella,’ starring Brandy, and 2009’s ‘Princess and the Frog.’ Then, Vulture’s baddest film critic Angelica Jade Bastién tells us whether 2023’s ‘Little Mermaid’ has legs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Support for the show comes from Into the Mix, a Ben and Jerry's podcast about joy and
0:06.0	justice produced with Vox Creative.
0:09.7	Thousands of Afghans were forced to flee their homes and fear for their lives when the Taliban
0:14.4	took control of Afghanistan in 2021.
0:17.9	The UK government pled to take in 20,000 of them as refugees, but in the first year, only
0:24.0	22 Afghans have been approved for asylum in the UK.
0:28.5	So what happened?
0:29.5	And what does this mean for the tens of thousands of people left behind?
0:33.5	Hear that story on the latest episode of Into the Mix.
0:38.5	Hey, you are listening to Into it from Vulture and New York magazine, I'm Sam Sanders.
0:46.2	And today, Mermaids.
0:56.8	The Little Mermaid to be specific, there's a new live action remake of The Little Mermaid
1:02.2	in movie theaters this weekend.
1:05.6	And you may have heard by now that this time around, Princess Ariel, The Little Mermaid
1:10.6	herself, is black.
1:12.7	We deserve to have representation where we can look and be like, wow, I'm worthy too.
1:18.1	She looks like me.
1:20.9	This is a very big deal.
1:22.5	Disney hasn't really done that many black princesses.
1:25.6	So this episode we are asking, has Disney ever gotten the black princess on screen right?
1:34.2	First going to go back and review two previous black Disney princess films.
1:38.8	And then we'll talk with the Vulture movie critic about whether this new black princess
	...

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