Melissa McCarthy is bringing the magic and laughs this holiday season.
first trailer for Chinese The film, which opened Wednesday, stars the Oscar nominee, 53, as a wish-granter who emerges from an antique jewelry box at Christmas time into a world very different from the one she remembers.
McCarthy brings his signature comedy style to the Peacock movie, written and produced by Richard Curtis, screenwriter of such classics as: actually love, Notting Hill And Bridget Jones’s Diary.
In the trailer, Genie befriends the hapless Bernard Bottle (Paapa Essiedu), who beckons her.
“It’s just a triangle of red bread,” Genie says after Bernard asks her to make a pizza. But after she tries it, she immediately changes her tune: “Wait a loving moment! This is heaven.”
Later in the trailer, it gives a look at the growth the characters experience together. “Years from now, I want you to remember that you are the best friend I ever had,” she tearfully tells Bernard.
Curtis and director Sam Boyd (In a relationship, Love life) has been said weekly entertainment about the holiday movie, which he describes as a “magnificent blend” of McCarthy’s classic comedy and Curtis’s emotional punch.
“I love improvisation, but of course it has to work within the parameters of the story you’re telling and its tone,” Boyd said. E.W..
He continued, “This whole thing was really a huge collaboration; we were working in parallel within a few different traditions — the Christmas movie tradition, the Richard Curtis movie, the Melissa McCarthy movie tradition — and the hope is that the final product is a wonderful blend of all of them.”
Curtis echoed the director, adding that McCarthy’s influence on the film was undeniable.
When asked if she wrote the role of Genie Spy Reflecting on the actress he had in mind, he said: “The answer is surprising because I wrote it and then we cast Melissa, and then I was very careful that it was Melissa and I worked with Melissa on the script as well.”
“We went through every scene and said, ‘What can you do here? What can you say here?’ “Some of my favorite lines in the movie are no longer written by me but by Ms. Melissa McCarthy, which means I love them even more,” he continued.
“The truth is that this was a scripted character, and we pitched it a lot on Melissa during production, especially pre-production.”
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actually love The author also explained that he shot the film in New York City because it “is especially magical during Christmas,” reflecting why his movies are often shot during the holiday season.
“I started thinking about it more and more,” he said E.W.. “Christmas has always been very happy for me and I love it as a deadline. This is the clearest deadline of the year.”
“Inside Chinese, like a clock ticking. And then there are all kinds of metaphors you can draw on. The most famous week of the year, with many things connected with it. So it’s about the things you can play with, but also about a time you’ll enjoy overall and a very useful deadline.”
Chinese It will be on Peacock on November 22.