Tina Fey hit the red carpet on Monday in NY for the premiere of Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, a wartime comedy that follows Fey as she portrays a journalist assigned to report from Afghanistan.
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Upper Darby’s Tina Fey owes her role in “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” to a New York Times book reviewer. Kim’s a professional woman in a risky area where the populace treats women like second-class citizens, so it’s both amusing and a social commentary for her to be called a “shameless whore” because her head isn’t covered when she first arrives in Kabul.
The 45-year-old actress was joined at the event by her husband Jeff Richmond and her co-stars Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Billy Bob Thornton, and Christopher Abbott.
It seems that the comedy in the movie is not up to the grade as inconsistent or patchy work has lessen the quality and the viewer is trapped between the hostility and the romance, the show is offering. It is a movie where the performer works her self-effacing Liz Lemon routine in a locale just slightly more nerve-wracking than NBC.
Another invented sequence, in which she blackmails a high-ranking Afghan official into disclosing information that Baker turns over to the US military to assist in the rescue of a Westerner held by the Taliban, reveals she’s unethical. Epically unprepared – she doesn’t stop to think a bright orange backpack makes for bad camouflage – she finds herself forever improv-ing on the job, but getting good enough that she learns not only is waging war an addiction, but so is covering it.
“Amy [Poehler] and I just did two months of press for Sisters and journalists were still bringing up, ‘People say women aren’t amusing, ‘” she tells Town & Country’s April issue. Most of the real details taken from Barker’s book are the most eccentric ones, like a scamming beggar and the popularity of porn.
Fey, who starred on the highly-rated sitcom “30 Rock” for seven seasons, said despite her impressive track record, she is still often asked whether society considers women to be amusing. As a competing journalist, Robbie steals every scene with Fey. “I didn’t want the movie to be “Eat, Pray, Love” in a war zone”. “I don’t know why, no one knows why and what happens to hardwire your brain”.
Barker’s book uses gallows humor in chronicling her time reporting in Afghanistan and Pakistan for the Chicago Tribune between 2004 and 2009.
“I wanted to have a very ambiguous ending”, Barker said. Kim’s good looks are also played for laughs when she’s told by men and women that she’s close to a “10” in Kabul, whereas she’d be more like a “five or six” back home.
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The script by Robert Carlock (a longtime collaborator of Fey’s) features some smart dialogue and a few legit moments of drama and peril, though a few really bright characters do some really dumb things in the interest of creating dramatic tension.
