Mar 09, 2021 @ 7:45 am
When you read this issue, Melissa McCarthy will have been living in Australia for nine months. She left the U.S. in July to film the Hulu series
Nine Perfect Strangers alongside Nicole Kidman, Michael Shannon, Regina Hall, and Bobby Cannavale. She is staying on to film a Netflix series,
God s Favorite Idiot, written by her husband, Ben Falcone. She and her family have been enjoying a bucolic existence in Byron Bay (in a country that has handled COVID-19 effectively enough to resume normalcy), far away, geographically at least, from the strife in the United States.
But this doesn t mean that McCarthy, 50, has divorced herself from the world. If anything, she is more invested, redoubling her commitment to understanding how we got here politically, psychologically, socially. This time has also affected her relationship to comedy. I m not smart enough to know how to purify the water, but I can throw myself down a flight of stairs an
1. Bridgett Floyd The world knows him as George Floyd, but to me, he was my big brother, Bridgett Floyd says. His devastating death in May at the hands of the Minneapolis police ignited protests around the world. Floyd and her siblings have bravely turned pain into purpose, establishing the George Floyd Memorial Foundation to uphold their brother s legacy of mentorship and service, as well as to fight for nationwide police reform. Since its inception, the foundation has handed out hot meals to the homeless in Fayetteville, N.C. (where George was born), and also created an internship program geared toward Black men at his alma mater, Texas A&M University. Floyd insists these steps are just the beginning. I believe that s what it means to be a badass: remaining confident and standing in your purpose, she says. My brother would always say to me, I m for ya, and it s an honor to know that today and for the rest of my life, I m for him.
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Last year, when Sigourney Weaver got an offer to guest star on the Netflix series
Call My Agent!, she tried something that she’d never done before: saying yes without reading the script. The hit French comedy is about the inner workings of a Paris talent agency, and Weaver, who speaks good French and had watched the first three seasons of the series, was excited to follow previous stars like Juliette Binoche and Isabelle Huppert. In the new episode, out this month, Weaver plays the show’s first American celebrity, an exaggerated version of herself.