Melissa McCarthy won’t stand for sexism.
When the movie star was at the Toronto Film Festival in September 2014, a critic who had written a scathing review of Tammy approached her to praise the movie she was there to promote, St. Vincent. The Spy actress, 44, recalls asking the critic in Entertainment Weekly’s May 22, 2015 issue. “Are you the one who wrote I was only a good actor when I looked more attractive and that my husband should never be allowed to direct me because he allowed me to look so homely?”
The critic admitted he was. “Would you say that to any guy?” she asked. “When John C. Reilly—or any actor—is playing a character that is depressed and dejected, would you say, ‘Well, you look terrible!?'”
McCarthy, one of the Hollywood’s most bankable actresses, then asked if he had a daughter. “Watch what you say to her,” she warned. “Do you tell her she’s only worthwhile or valid when she’s pretty?”
