NEW YORK (AP) — A recurring feeling has accompanied Amy Schumer's rapid ascent in show business. In her rise to becoming one of the pre-eminent stand-ups in the country, Schumer has emerged as one of the sharpest, wittiest commentators on gender in America. In "Trainwreck," a comedy she wrote and stars in due out Friday, Schumer wades into movies for the first time. In it, Tina Fey and Patricia Arquette toasted Julia Louis-Dreyfus' final day. Schumer's introduction to the superficiality of Hollywood, she reckons, has already given her 20 minutes of new material. The jokes have included her expectation a more attractive actress, "a Kate" (like Kate Upton or Kate Middleton), would be cast in her place, and her insistence that her Los Angeles experience has proven she'll never be a movie star. Yet "Trainwreck," directed by Judd Apatow, has already won glowing reviews for its crude humor and sweet authenticity. Klein said the writers' room (where Schumer's sister, Kim, also works) is humming with a sense of limitless material rife for parody. A recent column in the Guardian, citing a sketch from the show's first season, claimed Schumer has a "blind spot around race." Schumer posted online that the sketch had been misinterpreted and that she wouldn't start joking about "safe material" — a response she now regrets.
Schumer Walks Into Hollywood, And Leaves Armed With Material
By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Movies
Mon, 07/13/2015 - 6:48am
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