Minkoff, who was one of the directors of the 1994 film The Lion King and other Disney films, said he incorporated Divine into at least one of the drawings that ended up being used. "So, I suggested this different idea based on Divine, from a John Waters film."ĭivine, the well-known drag queen, who inspired the character Ursula from Disney's film 'The Little Mermaid.Getty Images
Most of the designs that were being made were those of a thin woman with a very long forehead, broad cheekbones and very black hair," Minkoff told NBC News. "The way the character was described in the script was like a character from Joan Collins.
But all the anecdotes include the moment when Rob Minkoff, a young illustrator, came up with the idea of being inspired by the vampiresque and made-up figure of Divine. According to some stories, the animators who were working on the film were struggling to find the appropriate image for the antagonist, who was initially modeled after a matron.
There's a lot of mythology surrounding how the animated villain came about in the 1989 film The Little Mermaid, written and directed by Ron Clements and John Musker.
DIVINE DRAG QUEEN URSLUA MOVIE
To celebrate her return, everyone from actress Melissa McCarthy, who plays the enemy of King Triton, to film historians, have taken the opportunity to pay tribute to Divine, the legendary drag queen who inspired the movie villain. More than three decades after Ursula, the busty witch of the Atlantic kingdom, first slipped onto the big screen, the queen of chaos is back to tempt the seas in a remake of Disney's classic The Little Mermaid.
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