“Just know every time you write stuff, every young girl in this country reads that and they just get a little bit chipped away.”
Melissa McCarthy stopped by The Ellen Show to explain the details behind a sexist review she received for her film Tammy — an experience she revealed in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
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Chatting with Ellen, she spoke about meeting the reporter in real life at the Toronto Film Festival, and confronting him about the sexist remarks.
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He came up to me, and I was surprised that he talked to me and I said, "Would you do that to a man? If John C. Reilly played a really broken down character and looked terrible?" I put a lot of time and effort having her completely not look like she cared about herself, it was part of how I felt she felt on the inside. I said, "Would you ever say that to a man?" And he said, "Well, I mean, you really looked bad."
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And then she asked if he had a daughter, to make him understand the true ramifications of his words:
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