Ghostbusters Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy party to celebrate ELLE’s first Women in Comedy issue

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Emma Powell8 June 2016
The Weekender

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Ghostbusters Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Melissa McCarthy partied together to celebrate being called upon to appear in ELLE’s first Women in Comedy issue.

The foursome – who star in the all-female Ghostbusters reboot – joined a host of stars at Hyde Sunset in Los Angeles where the walls were decorated with their four separate front covers.

The special issue focuses on their road to fame and getting into character and sees McKinnon joke that she is in fact Justin Bieber.

McCarthy – who was interviewed by Brian Atwood – revealed she gets “psychotically attached” to her characters, and fights for them in “the most annoying way”.

She said: “I hear myself saying to Ben or Paul [Feig], ‘She wouldn’t phrase it that way’. I know it’s such an actory thing, but I feel it to my core: I have to represent the woman I’m getting to be. Even if she’s fictitious, she’s always real to me: three-dimensional, flawed, loving, screwed-up, as real women are.”

Jones talked about her road to success and how she always knew she would make it because she is so funny.

Speaking to Ben Dickison she said: “I just knew that I was funny, and I knew that it was just a matter of time. I didn’t know what was going to actually happen—this is definitely way bigger than I thought—but I knew there was no way I was going to be that funny and nobody was going to notice it.”

Wiig was interviewed by fellow comic Will Ferrell and opened up about her first Saturday Night Live stint.

“My very first show I got on something that I wrote,” she explained. “I was weirdly less nervous for that than I was for the first sketch I was in, which was about someone being pregnant in their butt. I think it was Poehler, and we had a baby shower for her. I was scared that I was going to freeze or swear or pass out.”

McKinnon joked that she is in fact Justin Bieber as she opened up about how she communicates through pretending to be someone else.

“I came to a reckoning that [pretending to be other people] is in fact such a real, huge chunk of the way I communicate,” she said. “I thought it was something I was putting on to disguise something else, but it’s not.”

Lea Michele and Sarah Hyland were also in attendance at the ELLE event as well as original Ghostbuster Dan Akroyd who fooled around on the red carpet.

Read the full interview in ELLE, out June 21.

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