Tiffany Haddish, Melissa McCarthy and Elisabeth Moss talk all-female casts, box-office hopes and Kool-Aid pickles
Melissa McCarthy, Elisabeth Moss and
Tiffany Haddish are kicking back in the Warner Bros commissary, discussing an
American delicacy that, strangely, does not appear on the menu: “I taught them about pickles and Kool-Aid,” says Haddish proudly, as her two castmates erupt in squeals of revolted laughter.
“That shows the true love I have for you,” says McCarthy. “Because I kept saying no and she kept saying: ‘You have to try it!’ I was like: ‘I. Don’t. Want. To. Do. This.’ And then the next thing I know, I was eating it and … ” Here, McCarthy, a
Saturday Night Live regular and veteran of several blockbuster comedies, pauses before the punchline lands: “ … it was awful!”