Can You Ever Forgive Me? McCarthy on role in new film

In Can You Ever Forgive Me? Hollywood actress Melissa McCarthy plays a real-life down on her luck author who in the 1990s forged letters from celebrity figures which she sold to bookstores to make money.

It is being widely predicted that McCarthy’s performance will bring her an Oscar nomination.

BBC Talking Movies’ Tom Brook reports.

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