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Melissa McCarthy Wore Chris Farley's Actual Matt Foley Jacket For Her SNL Tribute
By JENNA BUSCH
In 2015, former cast members of “SNL” came together to do a live 40th-anniversary tribute to the sketch comedy show. For Melissa McCarthy’s homage to Chris Farley's memorable motivational speaker Matt Foley, she actually got to wear the jacket Farley wore in his famous sketches and explained in a SiriusXM interview about what that meant to her.
Of the famous jacket that Farley wore, McCarthy said, “It was really his jacket, and they just kind of like clipped it back. And they're like, ‘We're gonna take it in, but we don't wanna damage it. And we're gonna do all this.’” The jacket has probably seen a lot of damage after being hurled onto breakable tables in Farley’s sketches, just as it did in McCarthy’s tribute.
McCarthy was also very anxious about playing Foley. She recalled, “Right before I came through the door, I was so nervous. That the sweet stage manager came up and he goes, ‘Honey, are you okay?’ My legs were bouncing to the point where I couldn't — I was holding onto the door. [...] I was not in control of my body. And I've never done that before. I was just rattled.”