You know what they say – you might be a popular actress, you might be an Australian success story, you even might have scored a blockbuster movie deal, but you can never escape your 90s photos.
Sure – we all have them. But the difference is that the photographic evidence of our bad hair and blue eye shadow days are stuck firmly into old shoe boxes in hallway cupboards, and not … well, on international television on the Graham Norton Show.
Ouch.
Melissa McCarthy, who is promoting her new movie, Spy, stopped off on the talkshow host’s show last night, and Graham didn’t hesitate to do the unthinkable and whip out Melissa’s old 90s head shots.
And he did it in front of movie stars Chris Pratt and Jude Law, too.
Double ouch.
“First of all, I don’t know how you got them because I literally thought I had the only two hard copies,” said a laughing Melissa, “When you sent them to me, I was like, ‘Dear God, they’re out there.’”
“I had just moved to LA — I had only done theatre in New York for a very long time. And I got my first commercial agent, which was, like, above a sandwich shop. So he told me I had to get character shots,” said the actress and comedienne, “I am 26 in that picture and I thought it was a great idea to put on a grey snarled wig and old lady glasses — I’m like, ‘Sure, who wouldn’t hire her?’”
Alongside her ‘old lady’ shot, was one of her in a tiny cowboy hat – a Barbie hat, as McCarthy explains.
“That is from western Barbie … I took her hat — it’s a cowboy hat from Barbie.”
