TIME6 min readMelissa McCarthy Finds The Heart Of A Notorious Criminal
LEE ISRAEL WAS AN EXTRAORDINARILY DIFFICULT woman to like, but Melissa McCarthy loved her instantly. Not that they ever actually met; Israel, an author and literary forger, died in 2014. But McCarthy fell hard for the quintessential New Yorker depict
The best actress nomination for Melissa McCarthy in “Can You Ever Forgive Me?” shocks in more ways than one. It’s unlike any role she’s taken on before, and the project only took off because of her unexplainable interest in Lee Israel, the curmudgeonly writer, forger, and memoirist. Go behind the scenes with McCarthy here.
