Hey guys, Willie Geist back with you for another episode of the Sunday Sitdown podcast.

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You're getting the full uncut interview here on the Sunday Sitdown.

The interview we play on NBC on Sundays runs seven or eight minutes here.

We give you all of it.

Half hour, 45 minutes, whatever you want.

And today it is Melissa McCarthy out with the new movie Life of the Party.

So fun to talk to because I don't think a lot of people fully understand where she comes

from.

You kind of picked her up around Mike and Molly maybe or maybe Bridesmaids.

Maybe it was Gilmore girls depending on how far along you are in her career.

But she started growing up on a soybean farm in plain field Illinois about 40 miles outside

Chicago.

It's a long journey from there to where she is now.

Forbes Magazine just put her number four in terms of the most bankable stars of 2017.

In Hollywood, not bad.

She came to New York as you'll hear with 35 bucks.

I think she says $35 in her pocket at 20 years old had no idea what she was doing.

Just rolled into town.

And now she's one of the most famous people on the planet.

So we're going to talk right now to the great Melissa McCarthy.

We got together in the rainbow room here at 30 Rockefeller Plaza upstairs, a legendary

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