And what about Israel, who died in 2014? What might she have thought of a film version of her life, one that portrays her as a rumpled cat lady who drank too much and was completely lacking in social graces? “I’m not about to say that I know what she would or wouldn’t have liked,” says McCarthy. “But she was an amazing writer who was not acknowledged. I think that getting out that part of the story would have really pleased her.”

Source: Los Angeles Times January 10, 2019 11:26 UTC