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Here’s “Mike & Molly” star Melissa McCarthy like you’ve never seen her before — vamping it up as cinema drag queen Divine in the pages of Entertainment Weekly.
McCarthy, who also co-starred in this year’s big-screen hit “Bridesmaids,” tells EW that her success, both on her CBS sitcom and in movies, has helped her overcome some of her insecurities — particularly about her weight.
She says that when a blogger complained last year that watching McCarthy and her “Mike & Molly” co-star Billy Gardell kiss was “nauseating,” McCarthy felt sorry for the writer.
“My first thought was, ‘Gosh, I hope she doesn’t have a daughter,’ ” she says. “And then, after a second I thought, ‘What a sad, troubled person. You’re making such a s – – – – y judgment on people.
“Do I sometimes hope I wake up in the morning and people are like, ‘What’s wrong with her? She looks emaciated.’ Of course, I would love that,” she says.
“I’m such a clothes whore, I would love the opportunity to be a hanger.
“But I think I’m more confident than I’ve ever felt in my life.”
McCarthy — who says her favorite movie is “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” and her “comedy crush” is Tina Fey — also talks about her definition of comedy.
“Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics,” she says. “It’s everything you find out about somebody when you fall in love with them that on paper is really creepy but you find adorable.”
McCarthy’s interview in EW as “The New Queen of Comedy” (she also poses as the Queen of Hearts) appears in the magazine’s Nov. 4 issue.