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    Sizing Up the Talent

    How writer-director Paul Feig gets the best out of his casts and crews
    by Nicole LaPorte Aug 06, 2018 3 minutes
    Feig says that a director’s natural inclination is to control things when working with actors. He tries to do the opposite.

    From his late-’90s TV show Freaks and Geeks, which launched the careers of Seth Rogen and James Franco, to female-driven comedies such as Bridesmaids, The Heat, and Spy, which did the same for Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig (pronounced Feeg) has demonstrated a knack for eliciting memorable breakout performances. His latest film, out this month, is the comedic whodunit A Simple Favor, which stars Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively as feminist oddballs whose humor is laced with an ominous

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