Harry Styles at arrivals for Camp: Notes...

I’ve liked Harry Styles for a while. Ever since he dumped Taylor Swift, honestly. Remember that drama? It was good – he dumped her while they were on vacation together, and then she tried to real-estate stalk him, and then she devoted a big chunk of 1989 to him, and he still didn’t say one bad word against her publicly. It was a great way to handle all of it. In the years since, Harry went solo musically and he’s been trying his hand at acting. He had a smallish supporting role in Dunkirk, and now… this:

Former One Direction bandmember Harry Styles is in talks for Rob Marshall’s live action take on The Little Mermaid for Disney. Styles is eyeing the role of Prince Eric. Styles was one of the contenders to play Elvis Presley in Baz Luhrmann’s movie. He was waiting to see if he landed that role after testing for it, before committing to Little Mermaid.

[From Deadline]

I’m going to patiently sit here and wait for a ton of people to freak out about the fact that Prince Eric should be Danish. That was the argument against casting Halle Bailey as Ariel in The Little Mermaid, right? Because she isn’t DANISH. It’s not that she’s black! It’s that she’s not Danish and The Little Mermaid is all about Danish peeps and Danish mythology and… I’m going to be waiting for a while, right? No one is going to freak out that a British guy will probably play Prince Eric. But I imagine they’ll freak out once they realize that The Little Mermaid is now a fable about interracial romance?!?!? Sorry, that’s CANON now.

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Harry Styles at arrivals for Camp: Notes...
Celebrities arrive for the Gucci Parade at The Capitoline Museums in Roma, Italy