One explicit second from The Little Mermaid made Halle Bailey near and dear. ET’s Deidre Behar tended to the 22-year-old singer and performer at Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood event on Thursday, and, resulting to tell ET that “little catches” from the film made her cry back in June, she’s right now significant the specific scene that got the waterworks streaming.

“It was the recurrent that I saw… that was a subsequent where I cried,” Bailey said. “It’s segment 2 of ‘Part of Your World,’ later in the film where she’s on the stone.”

“I’m just reliably in wonder,” she added of her relationship in the endeavor. “That was the essential [emotional] second for me.”

As for which Little Mermaid tune is her main, Bailey just couldn’t pick.

“It’s so strengthening since there’s new tunes as well as the old ones,” she said. “The remarkable ones are amazing… Every one of them are exquisite. I would rather not give a ton of away.”

Bailey continued to depict her understanding of Ariel as “fun, lively and appreciating,” preceding sharing what it means for her to being playing the second Black Disney princess.

“I just trust people love it,” she said. “I trust my surprising more youthful kin, sisters, cousins, my family, my neighborhood, from a’s perspective and be like, ‘Learn to expect the unexpected. We can be princesses too. This is bewildering.'”

Despite The Little Mermaid, Bailey is appearing in the approaching film type of the melodic adaption of The Color Purple. Concerning which individual from exquisite cast she was for the most part anxious to work with, Bailey featured Fantasia Barrino.

“I’ve perpetually cherished her, like, a titanic fan,” Bailey said. “Her voice, her spirit, her anointment is just so exquisite. She’s so kind and a brilliant individual all around. I can barely believe that everyone will perceive the way she deals with this work.”

With a couple of looming high-profile projects, it’s no big treat that Bailey was associated with Variety’s Power of Young Hollywood issue.

“Goodness my golly, I’m basically so respected to be here and to be on the cover,” Bailey told ET. “It appears to be a dream. I’m actually similar to, ‘What on God’s green earth is happening?’