Paul Feig and Blake Lively Go Dark in 'A Simple Favor'
Lively told the comedy director, "Paul, this is going to sound weird, but I want to dress like you."
by Anna Menta
Sep 14, 2018
2 minutes
“My favorite thing in the world is surprising an audience by changing it up with an actor who they think they know,” says director Paul Feig, who has a résumé to back that claim up.
Since making the switch from TV to film, Feig, the co-creator with Judd Apatow of the 1999 cult show , has turned a mainstream sitcom lead, Melissa McCarthy, into a crass, badass superstar (beginning); revealed the funny bone in deadly serious action star Jason Statham (2015’s ); and transformed Chris Hemsworth, famous for playing Thor, into a hilariously vapid bimbo in 2016’s
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