In her partner’s view a final script never truly existed. “We basically did four and a half years of rewrites,” Wiig says. Having broken-in working relationships all around came in handy as, throughout preproduction and shooting, the script by Wiig and Mumolo changed again and again.
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What’s more, Apatow and Feig collaborated on the television series “Freaks and Geeks.” Rose Byrne, who rounds out the bridesmaids, functions as more of a straight woman. Ellie Kemper (“The Office”) was the only comedic actor she hadn’t worked alongside. Wiig had previously worked with the ensemble’s Maya Rudolph, who plays the bride, as well as Wendi McLendon-Covey (from “Reno 911!”) and Melissa McCarthy (“Mike & Molly”), who play bridesmaids. We did the same thing with ‘Knocked Up.’ ” And the reason ‘Bridesmaids’ works is that Kristen hired all of her friends, people she’d worked with before, so the chemistry is real. “I try very hard not to develop movies too much until I have a cast,” Apatow says. She and her writing partner, Annie Mumolo, a fellow Groundlings alumna, pitched him an idea: A woman in a life slump becomes the maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding - and the de facto leader of an oddball band of bridesmaids.Īpatow was on board, but he held back until casting finally began in early 2010.
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They just loved her.”Īpatow told Wiig that if she wrote a movie for herself, he would produce it. The audience didn’t need to get to know her. What shocked me in the test screenings was that on the first sentence out of her mouth, she got a gigantic laugh. “There was literally no part there at all,” Apatow says. Apatow had just directed, and been incredibly impressed by, Wiig in a “Knocked Up” bit role as a boss. And it was conceived in 2006 - three years before “The Hangover” came out. And an early trailer for “Bridesmaids” implied that it would follow in that film’s raunchy, debaucherous footsteps to Las Vegas.īut “Bridesmaids” is not a female version of “The Hangover.” Nor, despite its title, is it a true wedding comedy in the vein of “27 Dresses.” Rather, as Feig puts it, it’s “a nervous-breakdown movie,” marked by a balance between outrageous comedy and emotional moments. Like “The Hangover,” “Bridesmaids” is an ensemble movie set around an impending wedding. It felt like a tremendous amount of pressure - and that was before the blogosphere and onlookers at large dubbed “Bridesmaids” a ladies’ take on “The Hangover,” a film that won a Golden Globe, sparked a cache of catchphrases and grossed $462 million worldwide. “I kept thinking, ‘If I blow this, I’m going to ruin it for these women for years and years.’ ” “Because of Judd’s power with the studio we got to make a movie filled with women who are not A-list,” Feig says. “Bridesmaids,” which opens Friday, stars and was co-written by Kristen Wiig of “Saturday Night Live” and was produced by Judd Apatow, the filmmaker behind “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin.” The ads delighted him, but they also reminded him of the apprehension he felt while shooting this female buddy comedy about bridal party dynamics. NEW YORK - The director Paul Feig was in Manhattan recently on the day a blitz of ads for his new movie, “Bridesmaids,” materialized at bus stops and atop cabs, spattering fuchsia satin across the city.
The making of ‘Bridesmaids’ – The Mercury News
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