Amazon’s Alexa will no longer sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy.
23.05.2023 - 16:13 / etcanada.com
Melissa McCarthy likes a cool, calm set.
But in an interview with The Guardian, the “Little Mermaid” star opened up about an unnamed production that had her “physically ill.”
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McCarthy explained that she and her husband and creative partner Ben Falcone have a “no screamers or crazy egos” on their sets, in contrast to her negative experience.
“I did work for someone once who ran such a volatile, hostile set that it made me physically ill,” she said, not naming the director. “My eyes were swelling up, I was absorbing all of this nuttiness.”
She continued, “There were people weeping, visibly so upset by this one person. And I think that’s why the manipulation worked, because to get to me, this person would fire people I loved, which kept me quiet. It was very effective.”
Eventually, things got so bad that McCarthy had to take matters into her own hands and put a stop to the toxicity.
“Then one day, I was like, ‘It stops today!’ I just kept saying to them, it stops, it stops,” she said. “And I know now I’ll never keep quiet again.”
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When it comes to managing her own sets with Falcone, McCarthy said that during the hiring process they perform a “crazy check” in order to see if the person is nice enough, explaining they don’t only expect people to be kind on set, “We demand it.”
“You know, we were so astounded and grateful at getting to build our own little worlds, we were like, ‘We have to build the one we’ve always talked about, where everybody gets to have an opinion and everyone is really nice,” McCarty said. “It’s
Amazon’s Alexa will no longer sound like Samuel L. Jackson and Melissa McCarthy.
Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor Alexa will no longer swear a blue streak for you in the voice of Samuel L. Jackson. Amazon has discontinued sales of the special Alexa celebrity-voice add-on packs from Jackson, Melissa McCarthy and Shaquille O’Neal, which have been able to tell jokes, report on the weather and deliver other responses to users of Alexa-enabled devices. According to notices on Amazon’s site, the trio of Alexa celebrity voice “personalities” are no longer available for purchase. The Alexa celebrity voice packs had cost $4.99 each. For customers who already bought them, the Alexa voices for McCarthy and Shaq are set to expire on Sept. 30, 2023, while the Jackson voice add-on for Alexa was deactivated as of April 30.
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