Simply 100 days shy of its launch, Rob Marshall’s The Little Mermaid has revealed the primary glimpse of Melissa McCarthy because the movie’s iconic Disney villain Ursula.
Actress Halle Bailey released the latest look on the Walt Disney Studios live-action adaptation; she stars as Ariel, the fairy story heroine whose reputation in 1989’s The Little Mermaid helped usher within the Disney Renaissance period in animation. With hit songs by Howard Ashman and Alan Menken, the unique movie introduced extra fashionable musical components to the studios’ animated movies and was the primary of the ‘90s period Disney Princess position fashions with Ariel (initially voiced by Jodie Benson).
And now, following in Benson’s footsteps, is Bailey; you possibly can hear her ethereal and lovely tackle “A part of Your World” highlighted within the teaser under:
With that orchestral association of Ariel’s “I would like” music over the footage of her sisters, who we get a fast glimpse of, and that tease of “Kiss the Lady,” I can’t wait to see extra. And hear extra, since we’ve but to expertise Encanto’s Lin Manuel Miranda’s musical additions.
And the teaser goes past simply Ariel and her friends—it additionally options a fast take a look at Melissa McCarthy because the baddest sea witch, her tentacles coiled round her whereas giving us poor unlucky souls a mere style of Ursula. She’s received the Divine-impressed eyeshadow in what seems to be a straight out of the animated movie look. The cackle that caps the teaser is intriguing—giving us hope she will be able to pull it off—but I’m not completely bought simply but. What do you assume?
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The Little Mermaid opens in theaters May 26.
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