Melissa McCarthy shares her take on negative fan reaction to reboots: ‘If you don’t want to see it, you don’t have to see it’

Melissa McCarthy discusses her gender-flipping "Ghostbusters" reboot and how moviegoers should approach the trend in her new movie, "The Starling."

Video Transcript

KEVIN POLOWY: So the lead role in this one was actually gender-flipped from the original script, from what I've heard. And Melissa, I'm guessing this one will get far less toxic man-boy reactions than your most famous gender-flipping film in "Ghostbusters." How do you look back at that film five years later now, with the perspective? Do you share many fans' viewpoints that it was underrated?

MELISSA MCCARTHY: There's no end to stories we can tell. And there's so many reboots and relaunches and different interpretations, and to say any of them are wrong, I just don't get it. I don't get the fight to-- to see who can be the most negative and the most hate-filled. Everybody should be able to tell the story they want to tell. If you don't want to see it, you don't have to see it.

This one was a wonderful switch. This was Ted's idea. He said when he read it-- he was raised by a single mother-- he's like, I didn't buy the woman falling apart. He goes, in his life, he's like, it's always been the females that have kind of kept it together and kept trudging. I also think a man could be vulnerable and broken in a way that's-- we've not traditionally seen.