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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

ICYMI - Melissa McCarthy Loves Her Unlikeable Character in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?"

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

Daily News, Comedy, News

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Actress and comedian Melissa McCarthy talks about embracing her role as a desperate con artist in "Can You Ever Forgive Me?" and her fight for equal pay in Hollywood.  Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:03.0

Please welcome Melissa McCarthy.

0:06.0

Yes! Yes! I've never done this before. Yes!

0:11.0

Every single time I see you, there is a joy that fills my body that I cannot control.

0:16.0

Thank you so much for being on the show. Wow! Thank you!

0:21.0

Yes! Yes! Yes! I've never done this before.

0:26.0

Yes!

0:29.0

Every single time I see you, there is a joy that fills my body that I cannot control.

0:33.0

Thank you so much for being on the show. Wow! Thanks!

0:36.0

This is really exciting for so many reasons. One, because everybody loves you.

0:39.0

You're one of the funniest human beings in existence.

0:42.0

And genuinely, this film that you are in is getting Oscar buzz,

0:49.0

and I think for all the right reasons. Like, you were phenomenal in this movie,

0:52.0

and you were playing a character you've never played before. No!

0:56.0

I'm playing Lee Israel as the main character. She is a real person or was a real person.

1:02.0

She is a difficult, prickly, challenging writer who suddenly was told she was obsolete

1:09.0

and was no longer allowed to write, kind of got back into a corner and started forging

1:15.0

and impersonating literary letters of just great, so Jorthy Parker,

1:20.0

and then was caught by the FBI. So, no, it's the first time with her,

1:25.0

but I really kind of loved her. That's an interesting idea,

1:29.0

because when you watch this character and when you watch this movie,

1:33.0

the whole movie I was waiting to like her. I was like, oh, I'm going to like her.

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