Melissa Rivers Dishes on Surreal Experience of Playing Joan Rivers in ‘Joy’
Only four months after Joan Rivers passed away unexpectedly from complications following surgery, Melissa Rivers was offered the chance to play her onscreen. Rivers channels her mother and “Fashion Police” powerhouse in a guest spot in “Joy,” the upcoming David O. Russell film starring Jennifer Lawrence as Miracle-Mop-inventor Joy Mangano. The resemblance is uncanny. But…