Days after the highly anticipated premiere of The Little Mermaid live-action, we’re talking about one of the fan favorite characters and who is an icon in the LGBTTTI+ community, why? It’s more interesting than you think.
To create the iconic characters of the original animated version, released in 1989, Disney was inspired by real-life people: Alyssa Milano was the actress lending her image to Ariel, while a legendary figure from the night scene provided her explosives. Given the personality of the sea witch, find out who it is.
What person were you based on to create Ursula?
It was one of the most controversial actions of the famous production house, Disney, who despite their conservative policy of zero inclusion, opted for a strategy that still gave them great results. In his quest to find the right person to lend his essence to his next animated film, Harris Glenn Milstead was chosen for such an important mission.
Harris Glenn Milstead was a famous actor and singer of the 1980s who really always wanted to be a mainstream actor.
Best known for his participation in the 1972 film “Pink Flamingos”, a cult film known for one of the most uncomfortable and offensive productions with extreme scatological content. The actor, better known in show business as Divine, who was bullied as a child because of his weight, developed an ego that helped him rebel against that society and poke fun at himself. Who had rejected them so much.
Thus, thanks to his aggressive, uneasy and daring persona, he managed to earn the respect of the entertainment industry, which didn’t really look favorably on a man dressing as a woman, even Howard Ashman, who was a big fan of Harris Glenn Milstead’s work, approved Devine’s sketches for The Little Mermaid transformed into an octopus.
Unfortunately, the actor who gave his image of Ursula to life died shortly before we could see his work on the big screen, as he died on March 7, 1988, at the age of 43.
Rising to fame thanks to his successful drag career, the actor earned a significant following at Disney.
Melissa McCarthy’s Big Confession With Devine
One factor that perhaps very few fans are aware of and that may be a contributing factor to why the 52-year-old actress was chosen to give life to one of Disney’s most emblematic villains is that she actually has a lot of experience in the glamorous world of drag. . what in
In the words of Melissa McCarthy herself, her connection to the character is closer than we thought, because before she rose to fame as one of Hollywood’s beloved comedic actresses, she was a drag queen in Manhattan clubs known as Miss Y. was known from
“I would wear a gold lamé coat, a big wig, big eyelashes. I talked about being incredibly rich and beautiful and living extravagantly, and it worked really well the first night. And it felt good and it gave me so much confidence.”
Before she was an actress on the big screen, Melissa McCarthy was a huge figure in the NY nightlife scene.
In an interview with EW, the actress confessed that this is the character she’s always dreamed of in her life. “There’s a drag queen who lives in me. I’m always on the verge of working with her full-time… Ursula has the humor, the sadness, and the poise that I want in a character and frankly, I just That much is needed.” I want a drag queen”, which makes us understand that not all women dream of being a princess.
