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"The Heat&amp;#039;s Sandra Bullock has described herself and Melissa McCarthy as an &amp;quot;odd couple&amp;quot;. Bullock stars in The Heat as an FBI agent who partners with a loose cannon cop (McCarthy) to take down a drug lord.  In an interview with Flicks and Bits, Bullock discussed her and McCarthy&amp;#039;s on-screen comedic chemistry. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re the odd-couple. She&amp;#039;s Felix and she&amp;#039;s Oscar [from The Odd Couple], no doubt about it,&amp;quot; she joked. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re sort of a modern day odd-couple. You love nothing more than them to go at it, every single day.&amp;quot;  The actress continued: &amp;quot;And it was really easy for us to work together, we would much rather know what the story is and know where we have to get from A to B... and then just let us have at it. And that process was great. It&amp;#039;s rare when it works, when you have that comedic timing that&amp;#039;s complementary, but it&amp;#039;s such a great feeling because you don&amp;#039;t even have to look at each other.  &amp;quot;We could be staring straight ahead and we know each other&amp;#039;s signals, we know how to fill pauses if somebody needs help. It&amp;#039;s a gift and you can&amp;#039;t manufacture it. Honestly, I had such a blast. Their relationship is beautifully antagonistic and they&amp;#039;re basically just two strong individuals fighting for their territory.&amp;quot; Bullock also said she felt encouraged by director Paul Feig allowing her and McCarthy to improvise some scenes.  She explained: &amp;quot;Once you allow yourself that freedom - and you know you have that freedom, because generally they don&amp;#039;t allow that, they want you to stay very precise to the script - it&amp;#039;s so liberating and so fun because whatever you throw at these people in this cast you know they will volley back something better. &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;re not afraid to go out into left field because everyone wants you to do that. There could be several movies from this film just in outtakes.&amp;quot; McCarthy and filmmaker Feig have both expressed hopes for shooting a Heat sequel in the future. The Heat is now playing in the US and opens on July 31 in the UK. Watch a clip from the film below (warning - mature content):  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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