Sometimes meetings between showbiz pros even surprise those on the inside.
This was the case when"Bridesmaids"actorMelissa McCarthymet EGOT legend Barbra Streisand.
Streisand’s career began in the early 1960s on Broadway and she started releasing music shortly thereafter.
She is the only artist who has had a No.
1 album in each of the past six decades.
Her much-revered career and sophisticated music could make her seem close to royalty.
In that first meeting, McCarthy toldEntertainment Weeklythat Streisand was eating lunch meat in a pair of leggings.
The “Little Mermaid” star could hardly picture the legend doing something so comically ordinary.
It was really charming.
I was like, ‘You’re really pounding lunch meat.’
She’s like, ‘Yeah,'" McCarthy told Entertainment Weekly.
“None of this is what I expected.”
The track begins with the two pretending to compete over the lead role in an upcoming film.
One line states, “In any comedy, I can be crasser.”
Melissa McCarthy had previously never recorded music
Barbra Streisand is a fan of Melissa McCarthy.
Streisand easily showed her the ropes.
Streisand plays a somewhat overbearing mother who accompanies her son on a business trip across the United States.
Perhaps Streisand and McCarthy would be a formidable comedy film duo as well.
