Melissa McCarthy, 48, says she distinctly remembers her funny first encounter withTiffany Haddish, 39, for their new dramaThe Kitchen.“Tiffany and I met for dinner in New York, and she ordered a drink and then next to the drink [she ordered] a big tumbler filled with every fruit available at the bar, like cherries and all the citruses,” McCarthy tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “I was like, ‘How is that all going to go together?’ ”But McCarthy soon learned Haddish had a perfectly good reason for all the produce.Kevin Winter/Getty“She just looked at me and said, ‘It makes it healthy.’ Immediately I was like, ‘Okay we are going to be fine.'”For more onTiffany Haddishand Melissa McCarthy pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE on newsstands now.Adds Haddish, “I’m telling you, you just got to get your antioxidants in, that’s all.”McCarthy and Haddish team up withElisabeth Moss, 37, for their latest film about tough-talking Mob wives who gain control of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in the 1970s after their husbands are sent to prison.Alison Cohen Rosa/warner bros.Haddish says the trio have remained friends after filming and continue to keep in contact.“We send text messages to each other. Well, I send a lot of messages,” jokes Haddish. “I was counting them the other day, and I was like, ‘I need to leave them alone.'”The Kitchenis in theaters now.
Melissa McCarthy, 48, says she distinctly remembers her funny first encounter withTiffany Haddish, 39, for their new dramaThe Kitchen.
“Tiffany and I met for dinner in New York, and she ordered a drink and then next to the drink [she ordered] a big tumbler filled with every fruit available at the bar, like cherries and all the citruses,” McCarthy tells PEOPLE in this week’s issue. “I was like, ‘How is that all going to go together?’ ”
But McCarthy soon learned Haddish had a perfectly good reason for all the produce.
Kevin Winter/Getty
“She just looked at me and said, ‘It makes it healthy.’ Immediately I was like, ‘Okay we are going to be fine.'”
For more onTiffany Haddishand Melissa McCarthy pick up this week’s issue of PEOPLE on newsstands now.
Adds Haddish, “I’m telling you, you just got to get your antioxidants in, that’s all.”
McCarthy and Haddish team up withElisabeth Moss, 37, for their latest film about tough-talking Mob wives who gain control of New York City’s Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood in the 1970s after their husbands are sent to prison.
Alison Cohen Rosa/warner bros.
Haddish says the trio have remained friends after filming and continue to keep in contact.
“We send text messages to each other. Well, I send a lot of messages,” jokes Haddish. “I was counting them the other day, and I was like, ‘I need to leave them alone.'”
The Kitchenis in theaters now.
source: people.com
