Bridesmaidsmade history in 2011.
The premiere ofBridesmaidsin 2011 can lay claim to even more accomplishments.
Find out by lifting the curtain to reveal the untold truth ofBridesmaids.
Wiig’sbrief performanceas Heigl’s passive-aggressive manager at the E!
web connection left the film’s director, Judd Apatow, hugely impressed.
“There was literally no part there at all,” Apatow told theMercury News.
“We just improvised on set.
The audience didn’t need to get to know her.
They just loved her.”
Wiig and writing partner Annie Mumolo pitched Apatow the idea that would ultimately becomeBridesmaids.
Yet when it comes to box-office receipts,Bridesmaidstowers above them all.
In fact,E!
Newsreported it only took the film 23 days to hit the $100-million mark at the domestic box office.
Whenever there’s money to be made, Hollywood takes notice and that was absolutely the case withBridesmaids.
Wiig wasn’t the only one feeling the pressure.
“It’s really unfair.”
The result: a hilariously disgusting bout of food poisoning en masse.
“It was strongly suggested for us to put that in there.
I didn’t want to see people s******* and puking.”
Producer Judd Apatow offered a solution.
And I’m like, ‘Oh my God, this is hilarious!'"
In an oral history ofBridesmaidsforEntertainment Weekly, Rudolph explained how she came to be cast in the movie.
“Kristen and I were actual friends,” Rudolph toldEW.
“I came in and did a chemistry read with her, late in the process.
It was very clear to me that there was a desire to see a real relationship on-screen.”
When McCarthy auditioned, Feig knew immediately he could stop looking.
“[Melissa] came in and auditioned in the way that she played it in the movie.
I hadn’t seen it done that way.
It took me about 15 seconds to realize it was funny…
I was like, ‘This is weird!’
Then: ‘Oh my God.'”
McCarthy, however, worried that she may have gone a little too far in her audition.
“I was like, ‘What have I done?
I went too weird!'”
“I was the second choice,” Wilson explained.
“So close!”
While she admitted it was “nerve-wracking,” she proclaimed, “I remember crushing it.”
But, there was a silver lining.
Apatow’s decision to cut the sequence was not random.
At the time, Mumolo told theMercury News,The Hangoverhad just come out and become a massive hit.
“I was like: ‘I’m going to throw up,” she said.
“‘Something’s going on inside my body.'”
“We knew during the first one, this was it.
That is not what the studio wanted to hear.
In a follow-up,The Hollywood Reporterclaimed that Universal Studios boss Ron Meyer took Wiig to dinner.
He reportedly hoped to change her mind by tempting her with an eight-figure payday.
Wiig, however, would not budge.
Thankfully, those plans didn’t materialize.
News),director Paul Feig revealed his opinion on aBridesmaidssequel sans Kristen Wiig.
Feig elaborated in an interview withGamesRadar+.
“You watch the character become something else.”
“But I’ll let those ladies decide that.”
However, the stars of the film weren’t thinking in those terms.
“We weren’t making a ‘women’s movie.’
We were making a story, and we’re all women in it.”
While that matter-of-fact attitude may seem obvious, Rudolph highlighted the underlying sexism in the press coverage ofBridesmaids.
“Like, b****, I’m just making comedies!
I happen to be a woman!”
However, Rudolph admitted she no longer bothers trying to convince people to embrace her way of thinking.
“I’ve definitely given up on trying to persuade people to look at it differently.”
Filming their brief scene, Carnie Wilson revealed toBillboard, took the group into unfamiliar territory.
Wilson continued, “We spent time with Kristen Wiig, who is hysterical and so talented.
We were just laughing the entire time.”
“I wish you the best, but, my God,I’mnot marrying you.”
In an interview withMTV News, theBridesmaidscast joked about herlove scenewith the hunkyMad Menstar’s role.
“He’s usually the guy you call for awkward sex scenes,” quipped Maya Rudolph.
It’s cool!'”
“It’s the weirdest energy.
It’s so good and weird.”
“And then we were like, ‘OK, now we’re doing a sex scene!'”
