Always the musical showman, “The Little Mermaid” director Rob Marshall insisted that the most gestural parts of Melissa McCarthy’s live-action performance as Ursula were supported by eight puppeteered ...

"The Little Mermaid," starring Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy and more, is now available on digital Benjamin VanHoose is a Staff Editor on the Movies team at PEOPLE. He has written about entertainment ...

Disney has long understood that its villains need to be incredibly compelling, and that's certainly the case in 1989's The Little Mermaid. Ursula is a scheming, scary force of nature, but one with ...

“I don’t understand why people don’t like Ursula. I agree that she is evil, but still, Ariel signed the contract.” This was the first sentence a TikTok creator’s grandmother said in a now-viral ...

Laura Zornosa is a reporter at TIME. Laura Zornosa is a reporter at TIME. The face of Ursula—the villainous sea witch of The Little Mermaid infamy—might feel uniquely familiar to a child of the ...

The makeup artist for Disney’s live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” has responded to criticism surrounding the movie’s depiction of Ursula. The nefarious sea witch — played by Melissa McCarthy ...

“Although [having been] inspired by drag queens, I didn't want her to look like a drag queen,” said Peter Smith King of transforming Melissa McCarthy into Ursula Valerie Macon/Getty ; Walt Disney ...

When Walt Disney was looking for inspiration to create some of his earliest animated features, the Hans Christian Anderson fairytale "The Little Mermaid" caught his attention. The project was ...

Before Ginger Minj would dominate multiple seasons of "RuPaul’s Drag Race," act in major movies and write a cookbook, she was a young boy in 1980s Florida looking into the eyes of an octopus … and ...

From "Poor Unfortunate Souls" to "Big Ursula" attacking the kingdom, the live-action "The Little Mermaid" delivered an iconic villain. “For Rob, performance is the most important thing,” MPC VFX ...