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 ...

McCarthy fell hard for the outrageously coiffed, half-octopus sea witch of the 1989 Disney animated original while working as a nanny for two VHS-obsessed children. "I've seen 'The Little Mermaid' ...

Villainy in media has always been connected with groups, cultures and behaviors that are considered outside “the norm” of society, and since the early days of cinema, this has often taken the form of ...

“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Stepping into the shoes — or tentacles, as the case may be — of the first great villain of the Disney Renaissance is no small task for McCarthy. McCarthy told ComicBook.com that she approached it ...