Emma Stone and the cast of “Cruella” were interviewed by Variety’s senior culture and events editor Marc Malkin, who asked which other Disney villains they thought were deserving of a similar origin story.
Stone told Malkin she’d like to see the early days of Ursula from “The Little Mermaid”, who’s being played by Melissa McCarthy in Disney’s upcoming live-action version. “She’s an octopus and the world you would get to live in, like Ursula’s parents and what happened there.
You’ve never really seen a non-human Disney villain be explored in that way,” Stone said, spurring co-star Emma Thompson to offer a suggestion for how Ursula could have been traumatized as a youth.
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