![]() I love seeing this just becoming a norm and something normal for people to see and I just can’t wait to see ‘The Little Mermaid.'” I know Chloe and Halle and they are both amazing. Wallis was also excited by Bailey’s casting in “The Little Mermaid.” “It seems like things are changing,” she said. She had a job and she was doing everything great that she had to do.” “But then as I got older, I realized that Tiana was the only African-American princess but she was a boss at it. “It’s meant a lot to me, especially when I was little because I loved the songs and I loved everything about the movie,” Wallis told Variety. Quvenzhané Wallis, who became the youngest actress to be nominated for an Oscar after her debut in “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” hosted a panel discussion with the cast and crew of “The Princess and the Frog” ahead of the screening and described herself as a huge fan of the film. “It would make sense for them to be living in lands where they are talking to princesses who don’t look like them, where they have a multicultural landscape.” “In the landscape of our country, we are seeing more people of color, so it would make sense to have that reflected on screen,” she said. Bailey is starring as Ariel in the live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid,” and Rose hopes to see more Disney princesses of color in the future. ![]() Rose is also very encouraged by the casting of Halle Bailey as the second black Disney princess. Though playing the first black Disney princess might be expected to carry additional pressure for the actress voicing the role, Rose told Variety, “I’m a perfectionist, so I’m always feeling some sort of pressure but I didn’t feel more than usual. When they see her and she doesn’t look like them, it’s still them because they are babies and they recognize her spirit and her heart and her gumption and I think that is a great thing.” They just know that they feel something good. When they see her and they look like them, they aren’t old enough to know what that means. “Babies aren’t looking at her for her skin color. “And I see children of all different ethnicities wearing their Tiana gear so what it says is that she speaks to people on so many different levels,” Rose continued. “It’s no longer ‘You can’t be the princess.’ It’s expected and normal.” ![]() “Being the first black Disney princess, that was such a first and it really has changed the way young brown children are looked at in school and fantasy when they are playing,” Rose told Variety at the Academy’s anniversary screening Thursday night at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. Anika was the youngest performer to be honored as a Disney Legend when she received the honor in 2011.Ten years after starring as Princess Tiana in Disney’s Oscar-nominated animated feature “ The Princess and the Frog,” Anika Noni Rose reflected on her trailblazing role and the film’s lasting legacy. Additionally, Anika has received The Theater World Award, The Clarence Derwent Award, a Drama Desk nomination, the Los Angeles Critics' Circle Award, an Ovation Award, an Obie Award and four NAACP Image nominations, including the NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award for Theater. Anika has won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Caroline, or Change and has also starred in Broadway productions such as A Raisin in the Sun (Tony Award nomination and Outer Critics Circle nomination), and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Anika's many film credits include: Dreamgirls, The Princess and The Frog (voice of Princess Tiana), A Day Late and a Dollar Short, Half of a Yellow Sun, Imperial Dreams, and For Colored Girls. Other television credits include the Starz series Power, CBS's The Good Wife, ABC's Private Practice, CBS's Elementary and FOX's The Simpsons the A&E mini-series Stephen King's Bag of Bones opposite Pierce Brosnan and starring in The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency for HBO opposite Jill Scott and directed by Anthony Minghella. Anika starred as the lead of the television series The Quad, which ran for two seasons on BET (2017-2018).Īnika also starred in The History Channel's adaption of Roots as Kizzy (NAACP Image Award nom for Outstanding Actress). Sam Levinson) alongside Bill Skarsgard, Bella Thorne, Suki Waterhouse, Maud Apatow and Joel McHale, and the film Everything, Everything, based on the popular young adult novel by Nicola Yoon, opposite Amandla Stenberg. She was also seen in the film Assassination Nation (dir. In 2018, Anika starred in the title role of 'Carmen Jones' in John Doyle's production at the Classic Stage Company in NYC. Anika is also serving as Co-Executive Producer. Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose recently finished filming the lead role of the pilot episode Beast Mode (TBS / Macro), which is based on life of legendary boxing trainer Ann Wolfe.
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