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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. The summer movie season

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Speaker 1: will arrive with a splash, quite literally, when The Little

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Speaker 1: Mermaid hits theaters for Memorial Day weekend. And making a

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Speaker 1: live action version of one of the most popular animated

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Speaker 1: films was an easy decision for Disney, but in the

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Speaker 1: thirty four years since the original debut, some of the

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Speaker 1: story elements have become a bit outdated, so they decided

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Speaker 1: to make a few meaningful tweaks. Hollie Bailey, who's playing

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Speaker 1: Princess Ario, tells addition, I'm really excited for my version

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Speaker 1: of the film because we definitely changed the perspective of

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Speaker 1: her wanting to leave the ocean only for a boy.

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Speaker 1: It was bigger than that, was about herself, her purpose,

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Speaker 1: her freedom, her life, and what sheet wants as women

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Speaker 1: were amazing. We're independent, we're modern, we're everything and above,

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Speaker 1: and I'm glad that Disney's updating some of those themes.

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Speaker 1: The Little Mermaid is out everywhere May twenty six. That's

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood.