The makeup designer for the live-action remake of Disney’s The Little Mermaid has hit back at criticisms over his take on the character of Ursula, played by Melissa McCarthy. Speaking with Insider, Peter Smith King contended the belief that the makeup designer for Ursula should have been queer, since the sea witch of the 1989 iteration of The Little Mermaid was inspired by the popular drag queen Divine.
“I find that very offensive,” the designer said of the criticisms. “Why can’t I do as good a job as a queer makeup artist?” Smith King went on to describe calls for Ursula to be designed by a queer artist as “ridiculous,” discouraging audiences from “put[ting] people down because they’re not what they want it to be.” Perhaps the biggest figurehead in criticisms against Smith King’s role came from RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant Kerri Colby.
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