Why Does Hollywood Keep Disrespecting Melissa McCarthy?

http://www.vulture.com/2016/04/time-to-start-appreciating-melissa-mccarthy.html

Next month will mark the fifth anniversary of the release of Bridesmaids, the modestly budgeted smash that proved a comedy driven by women could hold its own in the summer marketplace - and, in the process, do wonders for the careers of everyone involved, from co-writer-star Kristen Wiig to director Paul Feig. Nobody, however, benefited more than Melissa McCarthy, who got an Oscar nomination in a genre that almost never yields them and, from there, immediately moved into leading roles. Since Bridesmaids, McCarthy has starred in five studio comedies - Identity Thief, The Heat, Tammy, Spy, and the current release, The Boss - with average production budgets of $39 million (the cost of roughly 20 minutes of Batman v Superman); the first four averaged worldwide grosses of $185 million. Notably, she did all of the above while holding down a day job: Her Bridesmaids breakthrough came one season into the run of Mike & Molly, a relatively buzzless CBS half-hour of the kind that many performers would have been screaming to get out of once movies beckoned.