--- title: Rose Byrne in 'Spy': Hair, Melissa McCarthy, Paul Feig, Television description: The versatile actress explains how she cultivated the perfect style for her new film canonical: https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/ author: Sam Lansky article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-05-21T15:42:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:32:02.786Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Rose Byrne on 'Spy': 'My Hair Needs Its Own Credit' og:description: The versatile actress explains how she cultivated the perfect style for her new film og:url: https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt485caf421b2cfda5/698851263c16394b58458019/rosebyrne_1280.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: RoseByrne_1280 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Rose Byrne on 'Spy': 'My Hair Needs Its Own Credit' twitter:description: The versatile actress explains how she cultivated the perfect style for her new film twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt485caf421b2cfda5/698851263c16394b58458019/rosebyrne_1280.png?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Rose Byrne on Her Outrageous Look in _Spy_: 'My Hair Needs Its Own Credit'  by [Sam Lansky](https://time.com/author/sam-lansky/)  ## Sam Lansky May 21, 2015 3:42 PM UTC   by [Sam Lansky](https://time.com/author/sam-lansky/)  ## Sam Lansky May 21, 2015 3:42 PM UTC The action-comedy _Spy,_ in theaters June 5, boasts laugh-out-loud performances from Oscar nominees Melissa McCarthy and Jude Law, a bracingly funny turn from action superstar Jason Statham and an unexpected extended cameo from the rapper 50 Cent, playing himself. But the film’s true star might be Rose Byrne’s hair. Byrne, 35, plays Raina Boyanov, a ruthless Bulgarian heiress; she’s the primary antagonist to McCarthy’s Susan Cooper, a frumpy CIA desk agent who heads into the field to stop Boyanov from selling a nuclear weapon to a terrorist organization. Clad in tacky-expensive catsuits with layers of spectacularly coiffured extensions, Byrne looks like — as Cooper jokes — “a slutty dolphin trainer.” “My hair needs its own credit,” Byrne says. “I would be \[in hair and makeup\] for an hour and a half, but I’d always have to go back in because it would start to melt into different shapes on my head. It’s part Marie Antoinette, part Eastern European, part Kardashian.” In conversation with TIME, Byrne talks about her rapport with McCarthy, making a very different kind of James Bond movie and why television is no longer “the bastard child of the business.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/"},"headline":"Rose Byrne on Her Outrageous Look in Spy: 'My Hair Needs Its Own Credit'","datePublished":"2015-05-21T15:42:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:32:02.786Z","description":"The versatile actress explains how she cultivated the perfect style for her new film","url":"https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/","keywords":["movies"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt485caf421b2cfda5/698851263c16394b58458019/rosebyrne_1280.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Lansky","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-lansky/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt485caf421b2cfda5/698851263c16394b58458019/rosebyrne_1280.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"RoseByrne_1280","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/movies/","name":"movies"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3892366/rose-byrne-spy-interview/","name":"Rose Byrne on Her Outrageous Look in Spy: 'My Hair Needs Its Own Credit'"}}]}] ```