And with that, I got a new writing assignment, which puts a slight (but lucrative) obstacle in the path of my project that I was going to finish writing and star in. So I need extra motivation this week, and got in the form of an interview with Melissa McCarthy in Esquire:
ESQUIRE: You had a movie come out (The Heat) and you have one in the works (Tammy). You’re starring on a hit TV series (“Mike & Molly”) and your and your husband’s production company is working on a TV pilot. This must be a crazy time.
MELISSA: But it’s everything we’ve always wanted to do. It’s everything we’d been doing at Groundlings and trying to do on the side. Now the difference is someone is saying, “You want to do that? How do we help?” instead of Ben (Falcone, her husband and Bridesmaids costar) and I saying, “Hey, if we do this in an alley and someone drives by and sees it, maybe they’ll like it.” We’ve always been doing this much work.
