Fox(NEW YORK) — In her latest film comedy, Spy, Melissa McCarthy is Susan Cooper, a desk-tied CIA agent who gets a lucky break to get in on the action when an arms dealer threatens the world.
McCarthy told ABC Radio more about her character at the New York City premiere held Monday night. “I play an agent that is not in the field. I sit in the basement and I’m kind of the brains and the technical, tactical person that’s in Jude Law’s ear,” she explained. “He’s more of like the Bond-type out in the field, but I’m the one actually telling him what to do.”
“Most of the agents are compromised so none of them can go back into the field and they need someone that no one knows, so I volunteer to go out and try to stop this bomb,” she added.
Furious 7 star Jason Statham is back on the big screen in Spy, but this time he’s flexing his comedy muscles. “I play Rick Ford. He’s a super spy with lots of skills. He overrates himself a little bit,” the actor said of his character. “His cover’s been given away so he can’t continue the mission anymore.”
Statham says after McCarthy’s Cooper takes on the mission, he tries “to get in the way of that.”
Law, who also stars in the film, said moviegoers can expect big laughs from Spy. In fact, it was the humor of writer/director Paul Feig’s script that made the actor sign onto the film.
“I got this script and I was reading this script and was laughing out loud. Like, that doesn’t happen,” he said. “You don’t often read a script cold and laugh out loud over and over and over. And I call up [Paul] and Paul described to me not a spoof, but a serious spy movie from which he wanted this humor to evolve and that was the catch. And I was like, ‘OK! I can see my part in that then.'”
Spy, also starring Rose Byrne, hits theaters Friday.
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