Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-33759597-20200124205745/@comment-1672596-20200127023227

Believe me, if it weren't for the fact that Lin Manuel Miranda is one of the executive producers for the remake, I most certainly would have assumed it was just due to singing voices (wouldn't be the first time singing voices took priority anyhow). Unfortunately, it's precisely BECAUSE of Lin Manuel Miranda helming the remake that it's most likely motivated more by race than by singing voices (especially when he was responsible for Hamilton, which was rather infamous for barring Whites from having any actual roles in the play despite it literally being about the Founding Fathers and the drafting of the Constitution, and in real life, they WERE whites, not minorities).