THE STARLING Q&A | TIFF 2021

The team behind THE STARLING in conversation with TIFF in advance of its premiere at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. Melissa McCarthy, Chris O’Dowd and Kevin Kline star in Theodore Melfi’s bittersweet tale of a couple working their way toward the other side of grief. The 46th Toronto International Film Festival runs September 9 to 18, 2021. For more, visit . Melissa McCarthy has long proved she can play both wild comedy and heartbreaking drama. Working again with her ST. VINCENT director Theodore Melfi and buoyed by a superb supporting cast, she soars in a complex role that draws upon her impeccable timing and emotional instincts. Lilly (McCarthy) is always the one who holds it together when things go south for her family. A year has passed since she and her husband Jack (Chris O’Dowd) lost their infant daughter. Grief got the better of Jack, who’s now recovering in a psychiatric clinic. Lilly holds down her job at the grocery store, keeps up the family’s exp