“But the thing about Divine is that she bigger than life, and this character is bigger than life.
We really used Divine as our inspiration because that’s where it started. “I love that she was originally inspired by Divine, the wonderful drag actor, who was so original and so funny. “It was really daunting to think about who was going to play this part,” he said. Because the character is a villain, the makeup artist told Johnson that he didn't want McCarthy to look like a drag queen. To the backdrop of an increasingly hostile environment across the US for drag queens right now, the Mary Poppins Returns director told SFX magazine how he kept Ursula true to her drag roots. While the original, animated Ursula was inspired by a drag queen named Divine, according to the film's animators, McCarthy's version of the character was styled differently. The Real-Life Drag Queen Who Inspired The Little Mermaid's Ursula Disney By Cameron Roy Hall / 5:35 pm EST 'The Little Mermaid' is the animated film that launched Disney's. Since the much-loved 1989 animation, which starred Pat Carroll as Ursula, it has long been known that Ursula’s immaculately camp energy, from her spectacular number “Poor Unfortunate Souls” to her evil scheming, is down to the drag legend Divine. The long-awaited Disney live-action adaptation of the nautical love story between Ariel (Halle Bailey) and Prince Eric (Jonah Hauer-King) is due to open next month with McCarthy as the villainous sea-witch hell-bent on tearing them apart.
The director of The Little Mermaid, Rob Marshall, has reflected on the “daunting” task of bringing drag legend Divine to life in Melissa McCarthy’s Ursula.
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