Here with Rose Byrne and Paul Feig, great to see you. Thank you. Good to be here. Thank you. Very Andre Dress, you both look dashing. Oh, go on. Am I technically allowed to be on Young Hollywood? Is it- is it my- is it Okay, thank God. So there you go. It's an attitude, not an age. We've intercepted chatter that Raina Boyanov knows where that nuke is. She knows the identity of all our agents. We need someone to find the bomb without being detected. I'll do it. Uh, okay. Thanks, lunch lady. And I read, um, you sort of when you got the idea to do Spy, you said quote, my head exploded. The idea of doing a female spy movie. Yeah.

I'm such a Bond fanatic and Bourne fanatic and just the spy genre in general. And, uh, but knew nobody's gonna let me direct one of those. And then one What? Why not? 'Cause why would you let the guy who directed Bridesmaids direct a James Bond movie? I will I think it could be a fabulous take on it. That's a terrible, terrible decision making with that take. Clearly where the bomb is. 10 seconds or you're dead. Oh my God, what why did you do that? I didn't do it on purpose. That's like a ton of pollen in here. I was going, I want to do a spy movie and I thought, well wait, I work with all these hilarious women.

Why don't I just write a female spy movie and I knew that I had amazing talent pool and yeah, it would just kind of it just kind of took a life of its own. Yeah. When you two first met, did you audition for Bridesmaids and what was that for? Yes. We were auditioning a bunch of like, you know, comedians for the role and who are all really funny, but I went like, I don't know, it just felt like it was going to be a little arch if we played it that way. It was like we need like a, you know, like a a real actress for this. So I was like, who do we get, who do we get?

And Judd said, well you should go down to the editing room and take a look at some of Rose Byrne's stuff from Get Him to the Greek. I was like, Rose, I love Rose as dramatic actress, I didn't know she was funny. And then saw that saw your scenes. It was just like, oh my God. So then we had her go in and read with uh Kristen in New York. Yeah. And it was really really funny. That was terrifying. I'm such a fan of Wiig, so I was like, Oh my goodness, I can't believe I'm gonna be reading with her. But it was so fun. It's such a was such a fun set up from the start, the dynamic between those two. So yeah, to really get that chemistry right, I'm sure when you were casting too.

There's a great line in the trailer where Melissa's um, she's she's talking, I think she's talking to a friend in the bar and she's talking about how her mom always told her to blend in. I think the quote is just blend in, let someone else win. Yes. Right? I went to teaching and join CIA, I thought I was gonna be this amazing spy and I'm still just the same boring person I was. You played it too safe. I just hear my mom's voice. Just blend in, let somebody else win. Making a wave isn't always brave. Brilliant. Give up on your dreams, Susan. She used to write that in my lunch box.

What was sort of like the first moment that you, you know, both, you know, making your way in Hollywood said, you know what, I'm gonna stake my claim. I gotta have this role. I'm not gonna blend in. Um, I think probably the big change trying to do comedy, because that's like it's got to be vulnerable in a far more different way doing comedy, then drama. So much less forgiving, I think. Yeah, it's less forgiving and um, it's a little more scary. And you really know if it's working or not pretty much straight away. Yeah, or a pity laugh, exactly. like, oh, you're dying. Yeah, or simply be laughed. I mean, I was an actor and a comedian before. Oh, that's right. Yeah.

Yeah, a break moment for me was I was trying to make it as a stand-up comedian in in LA at the comedy store, which is the big place at the time. And I could never get them to put me on stage. But I had this act that I knew really worked, this five minute bit that I did. It was me as a wood shop teacher who tells jokes, but he's completely humorless and all his jokes are about kids getting their arms sawed off and stuff. But I remember going up to the guy who booked it and I said, if you put me on next, if I bomb, I will never come to the comedy store again. I will never do it again. You can you can throw me out of the place. He's like, all right, I'll take that challenge. And I killed.

And so I was like in. We're giving you a new identity. You will no longer be Susan Cooper. You're Tammy Morgan, divorced housewife from Iowa. The confidence builder. If you could take on somebody's identity for a week and sort of live in, you know, another world or another business or another realm, what would you choose? Oh, that's such a great fantasy. I mean, there's so many people it would be so fun, like Stephen Hawking, or I don't know, someone really radical like. Yeah, like someone really like who's, you know. I was going to say George Clooney, if you're not Yeah, yeah, or or like that, or like, you know, Lady Gaga or Madonna, I don't know. Hillary Clinton, I don't know.

Did you say this is a great list. Yeah, really. I could keep going. I know. I wanna be Rose Byrne. You really think you're ready for the field? Well, thank you for chatting. Thank you so much. Thank you for being a champion of women and casting all these fabulous females in these wonderful roles and and doing these very strong women roles in films. Plenty more to come.