How Ursula and 'The Little Mermaid' changed Disney history — in more ways than one
You could describe "The Little Mermaid's" Ursula as an ambitious, villainous, octopus-like sea witch, but Pat Carroll would disagree with you on at least one point. Carroll, who died Saturday at 95, long maintained that the spellbinding Disney icon she first voiced in the 1989 animated feature is a squid. "Many people call her an octopus and I'm so knowledgable I have to correct them," Carroll ...
by Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times
Aug 02, 2022
3 minutes
You could describe "The Little Mermaid's" Ursula as an ambitious, villainous, octopus-like sea witch, but Pat Carroll would disagree with you on at least one point.
Carroll, who died Saturday at 95, long maintained that the spellbinding Disney icon she first voiced in the 1989 animated feature is a squid.
"Many people call her an octopus and I'm so knowledgable I have to correct them," Carroll explained in the documentary "Treasure's Untold: The Making of 'The Little Mermaid.'" "She's not an octopus, she's a squid …
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