Who you gonna call?!
For Elle Magazine’s first Women in Comedy issue this July, they looked toward the four spectacular women behind one of the most eagerly anticipated comedy releases of the year – Ghostbusters.
Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy have united forces for the special issue of the magazine to chat about just about anything, but mainly about being funny, of course.
Check out how Will Ferrell fulfills his reporting dreams by interviewing Kristen Wiig; Melissa McCarthy talks to an old friend about being a real Hollywood boss; Leslie Jones talks about being humorous; and Kate McKinnon reveals that she is, in fact… Justin Bieber.
Melissa on how she relates to her comedy characters: “I get so psychotically attached to all of my characters, and I fight for them in probably the most annoying way. I hear myself saying to Ben or Paul [Feig, Ghostbusters’ director], ‘she wouldn’t phrase it that way.’ I know it’s such an actory thing, but I feel it to my core: I have to represent the woman I’m getting to be. Even if she’s fictitious, she’s always real to me: three-dimensional, flawed, loving, screwed-up, as real women are.”
Kristen on Saturday Night Live: “My very first show I got on something that I wrote. I was weirdly less nervous for that than I was for the first sketch I was in, which was about someone being pregnant in their butt.” … “I was scared that I was going to freeze or swear or pass out.”
Pick up the July Issue of Elle from 21st June to read their stories.
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