https://www.axios.com/how-melissa-mccarthy-came-to-play-sean-spicer-on-snl-1513301170-c2ddf114-9962-416b-a15b-cf34d2ae1476.html
Axios Mar 25, 2017
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How Melissa McCarthy came to play Sean Spicer on SNL
The actress told Ellen DeGeneres on Friday that she was in New York when an old friend called, saying: "I hear you're in New York ... do you have any interest in coming in and doing Spicer for us?'"
McCarthy recounts:
"I was like 'What?!'' ... cut to somebody being like, 'Boy, you really look like that guy.' ... I feel like my dad and Sean Spicer had a baby, and it's me. Which makes it even stranger. ... the weirdest thing is you mess with your ears and it really changes the shape of your head..."