Melissa McCarthy got her first film role with a little help from Jennifer Coolidge! In a Q&A during a screening of her new series Nine Perfect Strangers on Tuesday (September 22), the actress revealed how Jennifer helped her get cast in her first movie, the 1999 crime comedy Go. Click inside to find out what happened… “I didn’t know her.
I was just a student and she was a company member at the Groundlings,” Melissa recalled. “And she contacted a casting director — I didn’t know she knew I was alive — and said, ‘I think you should see this girl.’ And [casting director] Joseph Middleton, he’s like, ‘She doesn’t do that ever.’” “I went in, and I got Go, which was my first movie.
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