'Spy' Stars Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, & Director Paul Feig

'Spy' Stars Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, Miranda Hart, & Director Paul Feig
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The YH Studio welcomes the wonderful and talented cast of action-comedy 'Spy', Melissa McCarthy, Jason Statham, Rose Byrne, and Miranda Hart, as well as the film's director Paul Feig! They reveal what their real-life top secret spy name would be and their real-life catchphrases, plus they talk about Mr. Feig's affinity for Post-It notes on set!
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Do you guys each have a catchphrase or a line that you tend to use the most or overuse? Rose, how about you? Catchphrase or GIF?
I can relate to that one. Sweet little thing. So delicate and demure. Don't be fooled. Don't be fooled.
Hey guys, Nicky Novak here in the Young Hollywood studio, and I'm thrilled to have the cast and the director of Spy. And I feel like we're like a singing group standing here. Not like not like a singing group. So thank you for coming in. Um, just to start things off, your your spy name. I know this was in the film, your spy name would be your first pet and the street you grew up on. So I just want to go down the line and see what your real-life spy name would be.
Turza Hancock.
What?
Yes. My grandmother named our cat Turza. I think it's a name from the Bible or something. And then Hancock.
I just wish your name was Turza. I wish your middle name was Turza.
Well, maybe it will be when I get to the courthouse. I know Rose's is pretty special. You get to go first.
Yeah. My is a special one. Tunapuss Trout.
What? What is it?
Tunapuss Trout.
Oh my gosh. That's the name of your cat? Wow. That's untoppable.
What kind of animal was Tunapuss?
It was a big fat tabby cat.
I thought we couldn't top yours, but as we're going down, they're getting ready.
No, I think mine's quite boring. Mine's Ollie Elmswater. But I think it's quite classy. It's almost three British, have you?
Thanks very much, Macarfe.
Mine's pretty boring. Jasper Edward.
Oh, that's a good one.
Mine is Scuzzy Van Dyke.
Wow, what was Scuzzy?
Scuzzy was a kitten and I was really little so I confused Fluffy with Scuzzy.
What's your take on it?
My mom kept saying, "I don't think Scuzzy means what you think it does." And I said, "Yeah, that's a scuzzy cat."
Rayana Boyanov knows where that nuke is. She knows the identity of all our agents. We need someone to find the bomb without being detected, but it can't be any of you. We need someone invisible.
I'll do it.
Uh, okay. Thanks, lunch lady.
I'm serious. Don't let me down, Cooper.
I will not.
I will let you up.
Stop talking.
I will let you up.
We're giving you a new identity. You will no longer be Susan Cooper. You're Honey Morgan, divorced housewife from Iowa. In the film, you you express at one point, you say, "Christmas on a cracker," which I thought was an adorable line. Do you guys each have a catchphrase, or a line that you tend to use the most, or overuse?
Paul, may I answer for Paul? Paul loves Christmas on a cracker.
Yes, I do. Yes, I do. That's Paul. Christmas. Yes, I am. I'm a Christmas mad. Um, I mean, my if I have a catchphrase in life, it's not interesting, it's just I always say, "We'll see." I drive people crazy. "Yeah, we'll see. We'll see." because it means I don't want to make the decision now.
Rose, how about you? Catchphrase or GIF?
I can relate to that one. Sweet little thing. Don't be fooled. Don't be fooled. You merged those two together. Just yell that at the cat all the time. Get it, give her that cat all the time.
One of my a character that I played says, "Tickety-boo" a lot. And Melissa said that a lot when filming. It was requested a lot because it's not better when it's not Tickety-boo.
I love it. I love it. I'm never gonna
Catchphrase.
All right, we're gonna.
Catchphrase.
How about yours? Oh Lord. That's a good one. I don't know what I really. I I say, "On the day," a lot. Meaning if it it's terrible now, don't judge me. And I pretend it's gonna be better later. So I'm like, "On the day, it'll be great." No. It's not great. It always is.
I was given specific instructions by Elaine to tailor these gadgets to you. These are not yours. This anti-fungal spray can freeze and disable any security system.
Wow. That is quite an image to be carrying all over Europe.
It's also a pepper spray. Why not just make it look like pepper spray?
It's a pretty good idea. All right. Well, next time.
Well, I can I can wait if you want to print up a new label.
No, I'd have to turn the printer on again.
What did I hear about the two of you? You did the helicopter scene. Jason was hanging off of you and there was something about you weren't getting handsy enough.
Apparently I wasn't, right? No, I I'd have to pay for that privilege.
Who has your call? Yes. Now, who was it that told you to get more handsy? Was it you, Melissa, or was it you, Paul, or was it Bo?
I I believe I yelled, "Get handsy! Get handsy!" And
He was about, like, 50 feet above Paul and I knew when he came out, I was like, "Don't say what I think you're gonna say." Paul he goes, "I'm sorry. Get handsy!" Which meant he's climbing up me and this this is where he landed. Red flag to a bull. Of course, absolutely, Paul.
Now, is this why you said that he's your comedy crush now? Other than his obvious comedic chops.
There's so many things. Yes, we had a our our wonderful hanging romance. Will go down in for all time.
So in the film, I loved there was a bit where Jason, you said, "I want to have a face-off." You were so willing to go undercover as you know, the CIA agent that you said, you know, "I'll change faces, I'll get plastic surgery." So if you guys could have anybody's face and live in anybody's shoes for a day and a half, see the world respond, how the world responds to you with that person or that person's persona, who would it be?
That's an easy one. Right there. That man right there. That choice.
Didn't you call him the god that walks among us or something like that?
I did say. He is a god who walks among us, exactly.
That's amazing.
Like Michael Jackson.
Oh, good one.
Someone like Rose from the dead.
You might have to moonwalk. Can you moonwalk, though?
I could I would learn.
I gotta say Cher.
Oh. Cher. Interesting.
In the jumpsuit.
In the cheek out jumpsuit, maybe, when she was on the the sailor show. I could pull that off. I mean, Yeah.
Cher as well. Cher as well. In her early in years, of course. Sharon Waxberg. She lives down the street.
I don't know who I'd pick.
Try Cher. There you go. But I would be I would be Cher, Gypsy. Gypsy, Tran Some These. Oh, nice. I still have it long and straight.
I heard something about Paul that you love to give Post-its on set. That there's like a it's like a Post-it frenzy as actors are improvising.
All my writers have uh have uh Post-it notes and pads and so they'll write and just hand some Post-its are coming in into my script that I'm running up to people and shoving Post-its in their faces 'cause I don't like them I don't like the other actors to know what they're gonna say so that they can be surprised.
So if you guys could choose your favorite Post-it that you received during film.
Yeah, what's your favorite Post-it from?
They're all filthy. They're all incredibly incredibly filthy. I know that.
Jason?
Oh, there's too many to choose from. A lot of them about the poison.
Yeah, I was gonna say that's my favorite. I'm immune to 189 different types of poison because I've tried them all at once. When I was deep undercover in some poison ingesting crime ring. Something like that. It wasn't it couldn't even fit on a Post-it. It literally had to be a piece of paper.
You were getting like yellow legal pad sheets. We got Post-its. Jason got like a legal pad. So you're handing to Jason, "Are you serious?"
You can do it. You can do it. Thank you so much for coming in. This was such a phenomenal film. And now the weather.
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PEOPLE MENTIONED
- Melissa McCarthy
Cast member of 'Spy'
- Jason Statham
Cast member of 'Spy'
- Rose Byrne
Cast member of 'Spy'
- Miranda Hart
Cast member of 'Spy'
- Paul Feig
Director of 'Spy'
- Nicky Novak
Interviewer at Young Hollywood
- Michael Jackson
Referenced when choosing a face for a day
- Cher
Referenced when choosing a face for a day
- Sharon Waxberg
Mentioned as a neighbor
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