'Spy' Director Paul Feig on Why He Loves Espionage Movies
Paul Feig is perhaps the most dapper man in Hollywood: The director of Bridesmaids and The Heat wears a suit every day (even on the set of his movies), doffs top hats and carries canes on the red carpet, and has the best sock collection in the game. So it’s only natural that he’d have a love for the lavish espionage lifestyle depicted in his latest flick, the Melissa McCarthy-starring comedy Spy.
“I love the world of the spy movies, I love the locations, I love how exotic they are, I love the clothes,” the director tells Yahoo Movies in the video above. “I like the high-class-ness of the spy genre.”
As the guy in charge, he got to pick the location for the film, the gorgeous old-world capital of Hungary, Budapest. “I call it the Paris of Eastern Europe,” he said. He also apparently had fun picking McCarthy’s drab undercover personas who were based in part, Feig says, on “a few of the lunch ladies I knew.” He was even game to select some spy names on the fly for famous faces like Kristen Wiig and Jaden Smith.
The film, in which McCarthy plays a long-time CIA analyst who finally gets her chance to go undercover in the field, co-stars Rose Byrne, Jason Statham and Jude Law, and hits theaters on Friday.
