

We really used Divine as our inspiration because that’s where it started. Because the character is a villain, the makeup artist told Johnson that he didn't want McCarthy to look like a drag queen. “I love that she was originally inspired by Divine, the wonderful drag actor, who was so original and so funny. 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. DragMakeup BioQueen HyperQueen FauxQueen DragQueen MakeupTutorial Ursula LaSirenita DivineHola Cariños, hoy likes traigo un nuevo tutorial de maquil. “It was really daunting to think about who was going to play this part,” he said. 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.

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.
