MELISSA MCCARTHY
ASKS 'CAN YOU FORGIVE ME?'
As 'Deadline' reports today, while she's waiting to see if GHOSTBUSTERS will flop or fly, Melissa McCarthy has another new project just signed: she will lead CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? based on Lee Israel memoir.
Israel was a magazine writer and author in the 1970s and ’80s who
specialized in profiles of big name entertainment figures. But when the
work dried up, she turned to selling letters she had forged from dead
writers and actors, and eventually she began stealing actual letters
from various archives before she was arrested in 1993. She is no longer
alive.
'DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID'
STARRING LEA SEYDOUX
In the trailer department here's an international one for Lea Seydoux's DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID set in the early 1900s, in the French provinces. Célestine a beautiful and libertarian young woman, who has been hired as a chambermaid by the Lanlaires, arrives from Paris at the train station. Joseph, her masters' gruff gardener takes her to the house where she is to work. She is "welcomed" by Mr. Lanlaire who immediately starts fondling her. She then meets Mrs. Lanlaire, a very unpleasant woman with a class superiority. All this bodes ill for the future...
Interesting story line for the new Melissa McCarthy movie. It's hard to believe someone would actually do that.
ReplyDeleteI think half of today's 'journalists' are making up stories
DeleteDiary of a chambermaid sounds interesting :) Seems like she's wicked!
ReplyDeletepositively so
DeleteBoth sound good!
ReplyDeleteglad you think so!
DeleteI must tell "the lady of the house" about this chambermaid movie! She really love these kinds of movies!
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Peter
this one is a bit naughty
DeleteI hadn't heard of Lee Isreal- but I can see how Lee's actions would make for an interesting book or movie. Shady! The picture of Melissa is hard to place with the movie description- but maybe I'd have to see it or read it to understand.
ReplyDeleteThe Diary of a Chambermaid definitely looks more sinister than I was expecting. :)
~Jess
The photo is not connected with the film itself, I've chose that photo because it's cute and because I needed a brownish one for the tone of the post :)
DeleteCan You Forgive Me? sounds like a great story, but they put that McCarthy creature in it. If she had a minor role, I'd still watch it, but not if she's the lead role.
ReplyDeleteDiary of a Chambermaid looks great. Oooh I hope something very bad happens to those horrid people she works for. The mistress of the house is wretched and it would be fitting if someone did use a pinch of arsenic in place of a pinch of salt on her food.
I'm very anxious to see if her Ghostbusters will flop or not, it is the trailer with the highest number of minuses at YouTube ever.
DeleteWretched was the life of servants in old times... I truly cannot imagine such a life... especially if you're more intelligent and cleverer than your masters but still have to put up with their whims... I often had editors in some of the publishing houses I worked for who were clearly less educated and less of experts in the field than me but were still the ones marking my translations
The Diary of a Chambermaid seems promising. I've never heard of Lee Israel before, but I'm off to find out more about her.
ReplyDeletethis was the first time I've heard of her too
DeleteDiary of a Chambermaid really does look good! I'll be looking out for that one,
ReplyDeleteI think Melissa makes a great looking Queen of Hearts.
I think CHAMBERMAID will be out only in New York later this month, but I'm not sure, it played around the world last year.
DeleteI lover Melissa McCarthy but sometimes I feel her roles are very repetitive.
ReplyDeletealmost all of them, methinks
DeleteAgreed. Wish she'd take a few roles like her Gilmore Girls character again. We loved her as Sookie. Not so much as the trailer trash, loud mouth roles she's been playing these past few years.
Deleteyes, she even gets trashy as Molly sometimes.... it seems that has become her thing
DeleteAs if being a chambermaid doesn't suck enough. Lee Israel sounds like quite a character. Hopefully Melissa can pull her off. I love her but must wonder if there were not better actresses for this role. Like a Meryl Streep type.
ReplyDeletemaybe Lee was a big woman like Melissa?
DeleteIs the Can you forgive me a comedy? I have recently watch the boss and identity thief and they are brilliant Melissa is one of my favourite actresses
ReplyDeletehope you will like this one too!
DeleteOh my. Her makeup is pretty crazy. Loving that sugar cookie. LOL.
ReplyDeleteshe's wearing the Queen Lizzy costume :)
DeleteMelissa McCarthy looks like a ghost in that reboot that should've never been made.
ReplyDeletewhom she's gonna call when it flops?
DeleteMellisa McCarthy is always hilarious. Such an interesting story line as well..
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