Furthermore, Ashman himself took on the position of Ursula, demonstrating her well-known “Poor Unlucky Souls” music on the request of the late Pat Carroll, who voiced the villain within the authentic film.
“He placed on the cloak instantly, sang the music,” the actress recalled in the 2006 documentaryTreasures Untold: The Making of The Little Mermaid, “and I watched each transfer of his. I watched every thing, I watched his face, I watched his arms, I ate him up!”
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In the identical documentary, Waters, who usually forged Divine in his movies and credited her as his muse, defined the trailblazing nature of Ursula’s origins.
“I assumed it was nice, it was the last word irony,” the filmmaker mentioned. “I am certain that in the event you went to the Disney executives earlier than they made this film and mentioned, ‘We’ll have a really huge character within the film, it is not some tiny, little ingénue half, and we’ll base it on Divine.’”
Referencing the famed drive on the Walt Disney studio lot, he joked, “On Dopey Lane, that ain’t flying!”