The Little Mermaid makeup artist denies basing his Ursula design on any drag queen or even on the animated version
Objectively, the video circulating Twitter is not the best example of King’s work. Most notably, the eyebrows are askew, and the bright colors painted on McCarthy’s eyes and lips are plastered on without much finesse. That clip is particularly unforgiving, though, and the look comes across much better in the context of the film.
Yes, I’m very old now, so that’s fine, I get that too, but, you know, a makeup artist or makeup designer could design makeup, they don’t have to have an attachment to the nature of what they’re doing.”King’s assertion that his take on Ursula isn’t based on “any drag acts at all” or even on the animated version of Ursula doesn’t exactly hold water, however.
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