Paul Feig has always liked the moment where you realize you’re laughing at something you maybe shouldn’t be. “We spend the first hour making you root for everything you’re not supposed to be rooting for,” he said. Feig usually insists on a single point of view, but this was the rare time he broke his own rule. Perkins’ character could’ve been flattened into shorthand — the icy matriarch, the wealthy villain — but Feig let her shape the menace herself. “What you’re wearing and what you look like is as much a part of your research as the lines,” he said.