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The makeup artist who helped Melissa McCarthy transform into Ursula for The Little Mermaid live-action remake responded to the criticism that the job should have gone to a queer artist. Back in May, Walt Disney Studios posted a behind-the-scenes video of King doing McCarthy’s makeup for the role on Twitter. Reactions were largely negative. “We said Ursula was inspired by a drag queen we didn’t mean one who had only been doing it for 3 months,” wrote drag queen Sierra La Puerta. Drag Race contestant Kerri Colby added, ““[This is] absolutely why we should hire up and coming queer artists with a pulse on the present and a vision for the future more often.” In the original 1989 animated movie,…
