Jessica Alexander plays Vanessa, Ursula's human alter-ego, in 'The Little Mermaid.'Anadolu Agency/Getty Images, @jessalxander via Instagram Jessica Alexander, 23, plays Vanessa, Ursula's human ...

“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 ...

In the original, animated version of The Little Mermaid, Ursula knows that leaving Ariel on her own in the human world might turn out to be more problematic than she originally thought. Even without ...

Disney's "The Little Mermaid" is filled with plenty of familiar faces, including Halle Bailey, Melissa McCarthy, and Javier Bardem. But the film also features a handful of fresh faces, like Jessica ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Let’s go for six or seven if we’re throwing it out there," McCarthy joked in her and Bardem's joint interview with 'The Hollywood Reporter' Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures / courtesy Everett ...

Melissa McCarthy crushed as Ursula, but the new Little Mermaid cut one of my favorite moments from the villain. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

“The Little Mermaid looks weird” is a common criticism of the uncanny valley fishies that populate Disney’s latest live-action experiment. (Trust, the naysaying is not slowing the movie down at the ...