Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

My thanks as always for clicking and listening along.

I am so very excited to bring my conversation this week with the hilarious Melissa McCarthy.

Melissa and I got together at Tavern on the Green on Central Park in New York City.

I'm not going to give you a long wind-up on Melissa McCarthy. You know her. You love her. She is funny in movies, but so naturally funny in a conversation, too, as you're about to be reminded.

We did go on a little petty cab ride, that is to say, the two of us around Central Park in the back, while a nice gentleman peddled us around let's call it two miles, maybe 30 minutes of chat. You'll hear that coming up in just a bit, but first, our conversation about this movie, about her career, about what she's been up to, and about a lot of random stuff because that's what happens

when you sit down with Melissa McCarthy right now on the Sunday Sit Down podcast.

It's so good to see you.

Likewise.

Yeah, it's been a minute.

It's been a minute.

We seem younger and fresher.

Speak for yourself.

No.

I was just waiting to hear it back.

No, you look great.

I was hitting you up. Thank you. You look great. I don't know what brought that up. Pandemic has had different impacts on the rest of us. Yes. I'm just so excited that you're in The Little Mermaid. It's a little, it feels a bit of a fever dream, I have to it's just so uh i don't know it's the one

it is it's the one movie i was a nanny when i lived in new york and it's the movie that like

almost every single night for like it maybe probably over a year and a half we watched that

before like i watched that with the kids so i'm like it's the only movie maybe in the world that I've seen that many times. And I kind of claimed Ursula just as like, that's the girl. I always was like, I would like to have a drink with Ursula quite a bit. And now to be able to play her, it seems kind of like, you know, maybe, maybe I'm just sleeping and I'll wake up and be, oh, that was a good dream.

Well, I can tell you, when that trailer first came out, they're going through, and then Melissa

McCarthy pops up as Ursula and was like, oh, my God, that is brilliant. And it turns out

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