Melissa McCarthy: I'd love to be Gaga

Melissa McCarthy would love to steal Lady Gaga's identity for the day.

The comedy actress stars alongside Jason Bateman in Identity Thief. Melissa plays Diana - a woman who has been living it up after pretending to be businessman Sandy Patterson.

The star has joked she'd love the chance to step into the shoes of eccentric pop star Gaga.

"I would be [Lady] Gaga. Do I get the wigs and the shoes? I hope I get everything," she quipped in an interview with British magazine Heat.

"Give me a jet and 17-inch shoes and, oh sure, give me the meat dress. I'm not going to say that I'm going to wear it, but let's have it for the day."

Melissa checks her credit card statement a lot more closely since starring in Identity Thief. The 42-year-old star has revealed one particularly weird moment concerning her and husband Ben Falcone's finances.

"Yeah, we check everything," she admitted. "We had four or five months where we kept paying for Hank Azaria's limos. Which made me laugh, because I don't even know him. It was this weird fluke - our card was one number off, or something. We told the company we weren't taking limos - my husband and I go nowhere.

"By then we just wanted to meet Hank and ask, 'Where are you going all the time with the limo?'" she cheekily added.

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