Chris Rock wants to team up with Melissa McCarthy in new comedy

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Comedy icon Chris Rock may just be teaming up with a rising star for a new film. Melissa McCarthy, the breakout, Oscar-nominated star Bridesmaids, is Rock’s ideal co-star according to a recent interview. The Huffington Port reports

He may be playing Julie Delpy’s bespeckled beau in “Two Days In New York,” her stateside sequel to 2007’s “Two Days In Paris,” but it seems Chris Rock has his eyes on another woman: Melissa McCarthy.

“I’m trying to romance her,” the comedian told the LA Times, adding that he is penning a script, which imagines the unconventional duo trafficking in rowdy dysfunction. A “Jerry Springer couple,” he said.

Sure, that sounds amazing. (Like, really amazing.) But McCarthy has quite the list of suitors already. She’s attached to star with Jason Bateman in “Identity Theft,” which, as you may have guessed from the title, is about a person who has their identity stolen.

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