Melissa McCarthy begs ‘yes please!’ for Spy sequel focused on breakdancing after Olympic event goes viral
MELISSA McCarthy has begged for a Spy sequel focused on breakdancing after the Olympic event went viral.
On Saturday, the Bridesmaids star enthusiastically shared a fan post about a movie idea on her Instagram Stories.
The comment read, "need a SPY 2 where Melissa McCarthy and Jason Statham go undercover as Olympics breakdancers from a made-up country."
Melissa, 53, captioned the repost, "Ummm YES PLEASE!!!"
The 2024 Paris Olympic Games introduced the sport of break dancing, called breaking in the Games, to the Summer Olympics program for the first time.
The sport was a hit among viewers, who watched 16 b-boys and b-girls from different countries competing to take home Olympic medals.
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Canada and Japan won gold in the event with the United States, France, Lithuania, and China all medaling.
Spy (2015) is a Paul Feig-directed, action comedy film that starred Melissa and Jason Statham, Jude Law, and Rose Byrne.
The film follows unorthodox secret agent Susan Cooper, played by Melissa, as she attempts to trace a stolen portable nuclear device with the reluctant help of Jason's Rich Ford.
The comedy grossed $110.8 million in North America.
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SNEAK PEEK
All this comes after Mellissa showed off her weight loss in the Season 4 trailer for Only Murders in the Building.
The star has lost 75 pounds since her heaviest weight and looked slimmer than ever in the Season 4 trailer for the Hulu mystery comedy.
The series stars Steve Martin, 78, Martin Short, 74, and Selena Gomez, 31, as neighbors who come together to solve a string of murders that occurred in their affluent Upper West Side apartment building.
While solving the mystery, the true-crime podcast enthusiasts produce a podcast of their own, appropriately titled Only Murders in the Building.
The new season sees the trio traveling to Los Angeles after a Hollywood studio expresses interest in adapting their podcast into a movie.
The trailer teased the guest stars set to appear on the Hulu Orignal throughout its fourth season.
The stars included 21-time Oscar nominee, and three-time winner, Meryl Streep, Schitt's Creek star Eugene Levy, Desperate Housewives alum Eva Longoria, comedian Zach Galifianakis, and Mike & Molly star Melissa, 53.
Melissa was shown sporting a short, layered haircut as she playfully shot a wink to someone off-screen.
The trailer was posted on YouTube, where fans went wild for the cast announcement in the comment section.
One person wrote, "I need to catch up. And the guest stars keep getting better and better."
"What a cast!!! so excited!!!," commented another.
"The cast just get better and bigger every season," agreed a third.
WEIGHT LOSS SECRETS
Since March, the Spy star displayed her weight loss transformation in Instagram videos and photos.
In a revealing 2015 interview with CBS This Morning, Melissa opened up about how she shed the pounds.
In it, she admitted to shifting her mental attitude and changing her lifestyle.
“I finally said to myself, ‘Oh for God's sake, stop worrying about it, and it may be the best thing I’ve ever done,'” Melissa revealed.
“I truly stopped worrying about my weight."
"I stopped over-analyzing, over-thinking, over-doing anything…I just stopped constantly being worried about it," she added.
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Melissa concluded, "And I think there’s something to kinda loosening up and not being so nervous and rigid about it that, bizarrely, has worked."
