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Podcast: The Parting Shot with H. Alan Scott
Episode: For Melissa McCarthy, Ursula in ‘The Little Mermaid’ is More Than Just a Villain
Description: For Melissa McCarthy, playing Ursula in the live-action remake of The Little Mermaid (May 26) started with terror. “That song [“Poor Unfortunate Souls”] looms so large for me that if I can't do it, I shouldn't be doing it,” McCarthy told Newsweek’s H. Alan Scott. Fortunately for us, she did it—and did it well. That’s partly because she saw Ursula as more than just a villain. “She’s not just ostracized, she's isolated...She's so in the gray murky area; one second it's real, the next it's a con, then a grift, then an attack, then it's just pain and vuln...