But casting Princess Jasmine is not without controversy.
It exoticizes us while making grasps at a comparison to one of the few brown women in mainstream media.
It was as if Disney said brown was beautiful, too, just like the snow white princesses that had come before.
This iteration of Princess Jasmine ticks all the boxes of the Hollywood formula for casting a woman of color: a name that’s easy to pronounce and looks just white enough.