“It just made me mad because the whole subversive thing was, ‘Oh my gosh, it’s a movie starring women.’ And it was like, ‘Really?’ It was 2009 or 2010 at the time we were making it. “But everybody kept talking to us like it was!” he says.
Certainly Feig never considered the movie to be subversive at the time. While the movie itself remains fresh, funny, and sweet, that it was considered quite so daring just 10 years ago is a bit of a shock now. When we tell him we can’t quite believe it’s been 10 years he laughs, “You can’t? Imagine how I feel!” Feig is in Belfast and into week four of his fantasy adaptation The School for Good and Evil (based on the book). release was May 13, 2011), Den of Geek is chatting with director Paul Feig via Zoom. And it shines just as strong today.Ī week ahead of Bridesmaids’ 10th birthday (its original U.S. From a script written by Annie Mumolo and Kristen Wiig (who also stars), featuring a wedding where romance is in no way the focus of the movie, and starring a host of funny women, a smattering of gross-out humor, and some of the most honest and empathetic depictions of female friendship around, Bridesmaids was a beacon. Ten years on, it seems both like yesterday when the film came out and also a whole era away: a time when women headlining a comedy movie was somehow strange, “chick flicks” were accepted to be a lesser form of cinema, and The Hangover was considered the pinnacle of hilarity. Quotes on other posters included proclamations like, “Chick flicks don’t have to suck!” (Movieline) and “Better Than The Hangover!” (Cosmopolitan). It might as well have continued “comes a comedy starring… women!” While the producer in question, Judd Apatow, had nearly created his own subgenre of modern coming-of-age comedies featuring male friendships (regardless of the age his characters were ‘coming of’), a credible, genuinely funny, ensemble laugher starring all women was virtually unheard of. "But the whole ride home from the audition, I was thinking, 'I got too weird.“From the producer of Superbad, Knocked Up and The 40-Year-Old Virgin” headlines the 2011 poster for Bridesmaids. I just love anybody who's that comfortable in her own skin," she explained to GQ of her inspiration. "I love those no-bulls-t women with close-cropped hair that you'll see together and think, 'Is that her partner?' Then they talk about their husbands and six kids. "We had seen a lot of people to play Megan-it was late in the process that Kristen and Annie said, 'You gotta meet our friend Melissa,'" he told Glamour last year, "and she came in and her take on the character was so different than anyone else that it took me a good 10 seconds to even realize what she was doing." As he sat there baffled by her audition, he recalled in a 2011 interview with GQ, "At first I was like, 'Is she playing it as a lesbian?' Then it got into all this weird sex stuff." He realized pretty quickly that he was watching a genius at work-"The mistake a lot of people make in casting is they get so tied to the words and the character they wrote that they don't see when somebody is better than what they have on the page"-but an in-the-dark McCarthy later admitted that she worried she'd pushed things too far. As much as Wilson impressed Feig, it was McCarthy who left him truly floored. She and new pal Lucas found a West Hollywood home to share, she revealed to Conan O'Brien in 2012, so "instead of annoying Kristen Wiig, we're now annoying all the neighbors nearby."Ħ. "So I just kind of added myself in in a way to the scenes." 5. And not only did Wilson ink her first American film, she also found a new place to live. "There was never supposed to be two roommates, only one," Wilson explained of producers dreaming up she and Matt Lucas' brother-sister duo. Among them was Australian transplant Rebel Wilson, who revealed on SiriusXM's The Jess Cagle Show this past March that she "was the second choice." (There's an always the bridesmaid, never the bride joke in there somewhere.) Still, she continued, "I guess they liked my audition and added me into the film." Thus the role of Brynn, Annie's second flatmate was born. Filmmakers courted a lot of actresses for the six main roles, but it was the part of sex-obsessed, potty-mouthed Megan "that we saw a ton of people for," Feig told EW.
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