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How ‘Only Murders in the Building’ Pulled Off Meryl Streep and Melissa McCarthy’s Living Room Brawl
'Only Murders' co-creator John Hoffman on casting Melissa McCarthy, how she and Meryl Streep staged that fight — and how much longer the show can go on.
To tell us more about how the key episode came together, about McCarthy and Streep both refusing stunt doubles for that big fight and his thoughts on the show’s longevity, “Only Murders” co-creator and executive producer John Hoffman spilled all. The concept for the episode was always “We need to find a safe house” that turns into the most emotionally fraught, unsafe space in certain ways and made you confront hard questions personally for Charles, certainly for Oliver in what’s going on with his relationship [with Loretta]. Given that it’s discovered that the Westies — the Arconia residents on the West side of the building — have been taking turns cashing the deceased Dudenoff’s social security checks, is it safe to say we’ll see them in the next episode?
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