I mean, it’s so many things and she just gives you the full palette of colors, you know? It’s incredible. She’s kind of funny, sometimes she’s scary, sometimes she’s kind of vulnerable and hurt and angry.
“The great thing about Melissa is she’s such a good actor, she really wanted to find the nuances of the character,” the director says. I'm a huge fan of drag.”Īnd Marshall is a huge fan of McCarthy, who’s drawing early raves for her performance, most notably the show-stopping number “Poor Unfortunate Souls.” (Watch clip above.) So that certainly played a big part in this for me. The homage to what you love and also poking fun at it is what makes drag so entertaining and fantastic. And when I found out, I was like, ‘I knew it.’ But I think I totally brought that in. And I always knew when I watched the original one, like I didn’t have any facts to back it up, but I was like, ‘I am convinced that’s based on Divine.’ She looks like Divine. on loop for me all through like high school and college. Pink Flamingos stars the countercultural drag queen Divine ( the late Glen Milstead) as a criminal living under the name of Babs Johnson, the filthiest person alive The film portrays her attempts to maintain her title against a rival couple who claim to be even filthier than her. “My inner-Divine is always with me,” she says. McCarthy confirms she also channeled Divine for her new in-the-flesh iteration of Ursula. (Milstead died in 1988, just a year before Little Mermaid was released.)
shot in a single take, shows 300-pound drag queen Divine following a dog and. Ashman later coached Pat Carroll, the late actress who voiced the original character, to approach her similarly. Variety called Pink Flamingos, John Waterss 1972 trash comedy classic. was built from that template, such a wonderful character," explains Rob Marshall, who directs the new musical film. “The makeup is very much Divine, with the eyebrows painted on much higher than her own eyebrows. After the Little Shop of Horrors playwright saw Rob Minkoff’s initial sketches of Ursula, he encouraged the animator to lean into visual similarities he recognized between Ursula and Divine. The story in a nutshell: Original Little Mermaid producer and songwriter Howard Ashman, like Waters and Milstead, was a gay man from Baltimore who ran in the same social circles. Here it is For this episode of Fridays are. At least according to official Disney canon.īut the iconic villainess’s creation was, in fact, inspired by one of the most famous drag queens in pop culture history: Divine (born Harris Glenn Milstead), the star of John Waters’s notorious NC-17-rated 1972 cult hit Pink Flamingos, among other films by the auteur of campy films. DIVINE PINK FLAMINGOS MAKEUP TUTORIAL, DRAG LEGEND LOOKHey guys I've been meaning to film third for a while. Ursula, the treacherous sea witch who steals Ariel's voice in the 1989 animated classic The Little Mermaid and the new live-action reboot, is not a drag queen. Melissa McCarthy in The Little Mermaid, Divine in Pink Flamingos (Photos: Disney/Courtesy Everett Collection)
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