If the character you are hanging out with body blocks you (in Chez Remy for instance), use the phone to make them move. They will automatically move to get into frame, allowing you to put the phone away and (hopefully) walk past them.
If you get trapped by the last table in Chez Remy, simply move between the two tables, take out your phone, aim it at the other character then towards the wall and they will move into frame. You can then put the phone away and walk around them.
And yes, you can do this trick to get Ariel and Ursula to come towards you if they are too far away and you don't have all of the biome unlocked yet (this is how I originally figured it out).
Hopefully they patch it so we can push the characters around again.















