Talk:The Little Mermaid (live-action film)/@comment-31200270-20191009034612/@comment-1672596-20191009035337

First of all, age doesn't really mean much in filming stuff (let's not forget that Gertrude's actress was actually a lot younger than the woman she portrayed, for example, and it's common enough there's even an entire trope for it. And there's also instances where older actors pretend to be much younger).

Second of all, that's not even comparable to the fact that they up and out changed Ariel's appearance just to settle diversity quotas due to that hack Lin Manuel Miranda helming the film. Let me put it another way that you might understand: Would you be happy if they replaced Mulan with, I don't know, a blonde Parisienne who doesn't even look remotely Chinese in the upcoming Mulan remake? Or heck, Changed Tiana to be a white woman? Not to mention it's completely pointless anyways especially when the recent D23 unveiled Ariel and Vanessa's dolls for the 30th anniversary, and clearly depicted Ariel in her original design, not her Halle Bailey design.