Her secret gadgets: Things a frumpy housewife from Iowa might carry in her purse - anti-fungal cream that doubles as mace, chloroformed hemorrhoid wipes. Cooper lands the assignment, but not the glamour. And that's still true when an assassin blows everyone's else's cover, and the Agency needs someone unknown to track a nuclear device.

Indispensable and unsung, her guidance is what makes this guy, played by Jude Law, a 'double-oh-seven' of sorts, and he repays her with flirty 'couldn't-do-it-without-you' chatter and a promise of dinner when he returns.īut his idea of a thank you gift is a hideous cupcake pendant, because, like the rest of the Agency, he condescends to her. She may have graduated at the top of her class, but 10 years in, she's at the bottom of the espionage heap - literally in a vermin-infested basement, surrounded by high-tech surveillance gear, talking into another agent's earpiece half a world away. McCarthy's CIA agent Susan Cooper is pointedly not there. Spy begins with a sequence crafted to look like a Bond flick - smooth tracking shots across a lake, to a mansion where tuxedos and gowns predominate and gunmen lurk behind every bush. Now, in Spy, a globe-trotting action comedy that proves to be an ideal star-vehicle, McCarthy's finally billed above the title. The second time they worked together, in the police-comedy The Heat, McCarthy got equal billing with co-star Sandra Bullock.

The first time Melissa McCarthy worked with director Paul Feig, she had a bit part in his comedy Bridesmaids.

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