Melissa McCarthy is opening up about working on a set that was so toxic, it made her physically sick. The 52-year-old The Little Mermaid actress says the experience taught her how to speak up for herself, a lesson she has passed on to her co-star Halle Bailey. “I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill,” Melissa said. “My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness.” Keep reading to find out more…“There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person,” Melissa told The Guardian. “And I think that’s why the manipulation worked, because to get to me this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet.
It was very effective. Then one day, I was like, ‘It stops today!’ I just kept saying to them, it stops, it stops. And I know now I’ll never keep quiet again.” Melissa‘s The Little Mermaid co-star Halle Bailey shared how much she learned from her. “I just had this epiphany moment, and slowly started coming out of my own shell.
I started owning my power and knowing that I, as a woman, have that is a really beautiful thing. And I remember seeing that from her,” Halle said of Melissa.
The Little Mermaid will be released in theaters on May 26. Melissa McCarthy is the cover star for People‘s 2023 “Beautiful Issue.”
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