The first trailer for Disney’s live-action movie Peter Pan & Wendy delivered a divisive look at the upcoming reworking of the classic animated movie of 1953, which itself was adapted from J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan stories. The movie continues the recent trend of updating older Disney projects that often have now problematic stereotypes and lack in representation due to the era in which they were made. In the new iteration of the Peter Pan story, Yara Shahidi takes on the role of Tinkerbell and recently talked to Extra about how the Disney+ release is correcting he issues of the original animated movie. She said:
Yara Shahidi has spoken about how Disney’s new Peter Pan & Wendy updates the out-dated stereotypes of the original animated classic. Read More