Melissa McCarthy and her international cohorts landed in London’s Leicester Square Wednesday for the world premiere of “Spy.” The crowd seemed most lively for local heroes Jason Statham and Jude Law, who got top billing with McCarthy on the posters plastered around the square. “It’s good to be home,” Statham said.
McCarthy told the crowd and the Yahoo livestream
that audiences were going to see the action star “in a whole different
light,” tackling comedy as a surly agent named Rick Ford. “You never
know what you’re getting into with a comedy,” Statham said. But it helps
to have a great director. “Paul Feig is the Scorsese of comedy films,”
he proclaimed.
Statham also approved his leading lady’s action chops. “(Melissa)
does one of the best fight sequences I’ve ever seen,” he said of a scene in a kitchen. “You never know what you could do with a bread roll.”
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But I think Paul is a fan of comedy in general. But it’s just nice to see that women can hang the same as the boys.”
This is the third collaboration between McCarthy and Feig, with the all-female-cast “Ghostbusters” next. “We just can’t stop. Hopefully, we’ll do another one of these,” he said.
Also in attendance at the premiere were Allison Janney, Miranda Hart, Peter Serafinowicz and Nargis Fakhri, as well as producers Peter Chernin and Jenno Topping.
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