Spy (TF1) Melissa McCarthy assumes she’s overweight: "If they want someone different, they just need to find someone else!"

Name: McCarthy, Melissa McCarthy. Her favorite cocktail: a good dose of brutality, colorless, uninhibited humor. His deadly weapon: Generous ways he plays without complexity and with a solid sense of self-mockery. Hollywood no longer swears by this extraordinary actress that it revealed in 2011. My best friendsA romantic-throwback comedy for which he was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor.

Hollywood Comedy Queen

He has since performed a shock duet with Sandra Bullock. musketeersAnd here he is, James Bond dressed as the woman in the movie. spyis the comedy of his favorite director Paul Feig that made him a star. And if the movie poster is stuck between the handsome guys Jason Statham (great as a humble agent) and Jude Law, with his tuxedo and gun in hand like 007, don’t be in any doubt about it. beautiful role Melissa lends her measures to Susan Cooper, a small arm of the CIA tasked with helping super agent Bradley Fine (Jude Law); The size of this service is equipped with the latest gadgets, including a miniature camera that films all his heroic actions. Equipped with a headset and a screen wall, Susan helps her with her duties on the field: Susan is her guardian angel. So when Bradley went missing, he was the one sent to get the nuclear bomb that was about to be sold to a Chechen terrorist.

Who would suspect a plump and faulty woman? Melissa McCarthy admits she had an explosion of both pure comedy scenes and action. You got to see the terrifying Rayna (perfect Rose Byrne) knock her down with a frying pan, master the fall on a “fluffy” going scooter, and fly through the air while holding onto a helicopter. It’s a golden role for Melissa, who succeeds at 41, an age where many actresses have seen their careers decline. Before being crowned as the queen of humor in Hollywood, she took classes at the Actors Studio, combed through the stand-up scenes of Los Angeles at length, and imposed 100% garbage comedy and subversive improvisation on the screen.

Concrete self-confidence

First of all, this funny lady (she was featured in the recently rebooted female movie. Ghost Hunters) assumes you are overweight. A lever of honor to the Hollywood canons: “I never felt like I had to change. If they want someone different, they just have to find someone else! » He owes his self-confidence to his father. “Thanks to her encouragement, I always thought to myself, ‘Why not me? I never thought that being a woman or growing up in a small town would prevent me from succeeding in life. » And he responds to a tabloid reporter who likens him to a hippopotamus: “I’m sorry for this person swimming in so much hate. » And to point out that this word will destroy him at the age of 20. Nothing seems to be able to stop Melissa today. She was named one of the hundred most influential people by Time magazine in 2016 and became the third highest paid actress in the world after Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson.

Spy on Monday, June 25 at 9:10 PM on TF1

Isabelle Magnier