Rudd was cast in the minor Bridesmaids role of Annie’s crazed blind date, but director Paul Feig believed their disastrous encounter needlessly complicated the narrative and consigned it to the DVD's deleted scenes feature. Poor Paul Rudd spent an entire day falling over on an ice rink, only to see all his efforts end up on the cutting room floor. "He was definitely just as handsome back then," Kemper said, "and having this grown, tall man teach you theater, it was like having a hunk in the class." 5. Club, the former star of The Office revealed that Hamm was quite the popular teacher among her classmates. Incredibly, Hamm used to teach Kemper drama during his pre-fame years working at a St. But their working relationship goes back even further. Long before Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Jon Hamm and Ellie Kemper also both bagged roles in Bridesmaids, with the former playing Annie’s sleazy booty call Ted and the latter a painfully naive newlywed Becca. Jon Hamm and Ellie Kemper arrive at the Bridesmaids premiere in Westwood, California in 2011. Jon Hamm was Ellie Kemper’s high school drama teacher. We're like, 'It's Lillian-she’s dead!' And then we were like, 'Oh wait-it's not Lillian.' And then we just keep running." But this darkly comic setup was deemed just a little too weird and was omitted from the final edit. “When we were running around to find Lillian, we were going to find a woman lying on the ground. Their original script also contained several more absurdist sequences, as the former told IndieWire in 2021. The addition of some puking and pooping wasn’t the only compromise that Wiig and Mumolo had to make.
Bridesmaids was intended to be a lot weirder. "When people say, 'Oh, we're gonna give more female-cenetred movies a chance,' you’re not reading the fine print, which is, 'Oh, but, they have to be like this.' They want to see women acting like guys." 3. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter’s Awards Chatter podcast, the actress admitted that all the gross-out humor had been added into the script by Apatow-much to her dismay. But writer Wiig, who also starred as Annie, absolutely detested it. The scene where all but one of the bridal party succumb to violent vomiting and diarrhea is unarguably Bridesmaids’ most memorable. Kristen Wiig hated Bridesmaids’ most memorable scene. After she and co-writer Annie Mumolo pitched the idea of Bridesmaids, Apatow agreed to produce and the rest is Hollywood history (although, as Wiig told The Wall Street Journal, it took five years to make the dream a reality). Not only did the comedy maestro want to put Wiig center stage in a movie, he wanted her to pen it, too. But director Judd Apatow was so bowled over by her improvisational skills playing Katherine Heigl’s petulant boss Jill that he made her the offer of a lifetime. Knocked Up was responsible for Bridesmaids’ conception.Ĭhances are you’ve forgotten that Kristen Wiig was even in Knocked Up.
A full decade on from its release, here’s a look at 20 facts you might not have known about the street-defecating, flight-disrupting, Wilson Phillips-reviving hit. Not only did the Kristen Wiig comedy silence any chauvinists who believed that men had the monopoly on laughs, its box office haul also spearheaded a wave of female-fronted comedies ranging from Bachelorette to Booksmart and turned Melissa McCarthy into a bankable leading lady (it also earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress). "These are smart, funny women," read one of the poster quotes for Bridesmaids, as if such a concept had previously been unfathomable to Hollywood’s critical elite.