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In Melissa McCarthy: Roles from the late 2010s
…supernatural creatures, featured McCarthy alongside Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. Before the film was even released in theaters, its casting of the titular team of wisecracking enforcers as women received searing backlash online. One particularly vocal segment of the original film’s fan base led a coordinated effort to…
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In Ghostbusters: Reboots
Kate McKinnon, Melissa McCarthy, and Kristen Wiig. Directed by Paul Feig, and featuring a screenplay written by Feig and Katie Dippold, the reboot generated intense online commentary before it was even released. In fact, some fans of the original responded with vitriolic anger to the new film and its all-female…
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In Saturday Night Live
Fred Armisen, Jason Sudeikis, Kristen Wiig, and Kate McKinnon. The anchor chair of SNL’s fake news segment, Weekend Update, holds special prominence and has been notably occupied by Chase, Curtin, Akroyd, Murray, Miller, Norm Macdonald, Fey, Seth Meyers, Colin Jost, and Michael Che
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In Wonder Woman: Post-Crisis Wonder Woman and film success
…film that saw comic actress Kristen Wiig cast against type as Diana’s archnemesis, the Cheetah. The second entry in the Wonder Woman franchise met a lackluster response from fans and critics, however, and its box office performance was sharply curtailed due to theater closures as a result of the COVID-19…
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