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The Avengers (2012)

dir. Joss Whedon

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“There really isn’t any other performer quite like Kristen Wiig, the incomparable misfit who made Hollywood laugh so hard that it didn’t even realize it was breaking all its own conventions by letting someone so proudly peculiar past its studio gates. You would think that some industry gatekeepers might have kicked her out by now, but maybe they actually recognize the infinite value of her sublime versatility, even if directors, producers, and casting agents could admittedly tap into it with more frequency, centrality, and imagination. Who knows, maybe these gatekeepers knew from the very start what they were doing by letting her in. Maybe she is exactly what they—and we—have been missing all along.”

Paul Feig’s all-female Ghostbusters plays the Tribeca Drive-In this Saturday. Here’s how star Kristen Wiig became a character actress we can believe in, by Matthew Eng.