Melissa McCarthy - 'Can You Ever Forgive Me?'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Film Interviews, Tv & Film

4.7 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2018

⏱️ 96 minutes

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One of today's few true movie stars — people buy tickets to see a movie because she's in it — opens up about the source of her early self-esteem and confidence; the crazy way she wound up performing standup and then improv; why she was planning to quit showbiz just before she landed 'Gilmore Girls'; how the blockbuster success of 'Bridesmaids' and an Emmy win for 'Mike & Molly' within just a few months of each other changed her life; and why she's now expanded beyond comedy into drama, or at least dramedy, playing a real person for the first time in her career — not counting 'Spicey' — and garnering some of the best reviews of her career. But first: Ivana Kirkbride, an expert and thought leader in the over-the-top video space, joins Scott to discuss her time at YouTube and Verizon's go90 and speculate about the future of 'premium mid-form content' and 'micro-windowing.' Credits: Hosted by Scott Feinberg, recorded and produced by Matthew Whitehurst. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 245th episode of Awards Chatter, the Hollywood
0:13.2	reporters awards podcast. I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is one of
0:17.6	2018's few true movie stars in the sense that the general public
0:22.2	consistently buys tickets to movies in which she
0:24.7	stars.
0:25.7	She's a woman who broke into the biz doing comedy on the TV series Gilmore Girls for the
0:30.0	WB and Mike and Molly for CBS. She became an A-Lister as a result of Bride's
0:36.0	the game-changing comedy blockbuster for which her scene-stealing performance was
0:40.2	recognized with the best supporting actress Oscar nomination.
0:43.0	And she continues to dazzle with her ability to do seemingly anything,
0:47.0	from sending up Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Saturday Night Live,
0:51.0	to most recently leading a dramatic film,
0:54.8	Mari Hellers, Can You Ever Forgive Me, in which she portrays the troubled New York writer, Lee Israel.
1:00.4	I'm talking, of course, about the great Melissa McCarthy.
1:04.0	Over the course of our conversation at the four seasons in Beverly Hills
1:08.0	the 48 year old and I discussed a wide range of topics including the source of her
1:11.9	early self-esteem and confidence, the crazy way in which
1:15.6	she wound up performing stand-up and then improvisational comedy, why she almost walked away
1:20.8	from show business just before landing Gilmore girls.
1:24.4	How the blockbuster success of bridesmaids and an Emmy win for Mike and Molly, within just a few months
1:29.6	of each other, exploded her career, and what the stories are behind her most well-received
1:35.0	films many of them comedies directed by her husband Ben Falcone or Paul Fieg
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