Correction: March 3, 2016 An earlier version of this article misstated that the Whiskey Tango Foxtrot characters in question are Pakistani.
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Fey plays the similarly named Kim Baker, a cable-news producer who spends time writing bland copy for bland on-air personalities and wondering if there’s anything more to life. As Kim embarks on marine embeds and gets nose-to-nose with Taliban insurgents, all the while juggling the aforementioned partying, a very forward Afghan official, a wedding (not hers) and a Scottish boyfriend, she finds what she couldn’t back in humdrum New York City – nonstop adrenaline.
TINA FEY has joked she rejected RYAN GOSLING and all the Hemsworth brothers for the love interest role in her new movie.
On Leonardo DiCaprio: Despite calling out the B.S., Fey said she supports DiCaprio using his acceptance speech to bring awareness to the environment. Tina said that she genuinely enjoyed Kim’s story and felt like it was a character that she could play and execute well.
Based on the 2011 memoir by Chicago Tribune reporter Kim Barker, “The Taliban Shuffle”, this uneven movie gives you emotional whiplash as it tries to find the chuckles amid the chaos of Kabul.
Tina Fey teamed up with Billy Bob Thornton and Margot Robbie to attend the world premiere of their upcoming film “Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot” in NY. “It’s specifically for returning vets who might want to study journalism”, she said.
There’s good supporting work from Chris Abbott, Josh Charles, and Alfred Molina (is there an ethnicity he hasn’t tackled?). Although just as self-involved and formulaic, directors John Requa and Glenn Ficarra succeed in making something that is infinitely more watchable, if ultimately a bit too fickle and small-minded in a way that feels counterintuitive.
On arrival in Afghanistan, Fey’s portrayal of Baker is a little ditzy compared to previous performances, but chances are that was done to help get the audience inured for a film that does take a number of serious turns.
“My husband (composer) Jeff Richmond and I, and a woman named Nell Benjamin, have been working on it”, Fey said.
“I get it; there’s a sense of war fatigue”, says Barker, who now works as an investigative reporter at The New York Times.
Her time in the Middle East was filled with freaky encounters like “having the future and former prime minister of Pakistan hit on you and buy you an iPhone”.
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Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection ‘Mean Girls, ‘ the beloved 2004 high school comedy, is being adapted into a musical, according to Tina Fey. “Whiskey Tango” isn’t just a sharp and engaging film.
