It was about that Annie didn’t have enough money and so she was always competing with Rose Byrne, and she was trying to get them to buy cheap dresses, which is kind of still in there. There was always a dress scene in there about them going to try on dresses and it was a very funny scene. Is that true? And also where did that idea stem from? I read somewhere that the whole dress shop scene was mainly your and Judd’s idea - that you really wanted that scene to be part of the movie. And then throughout the day, the numbers kept going up and up and up, and then we realized, “Oh, we might actually be OK.” The morning of, we were actually looking to be kind of a failure and I was pretty disappointed. We were kind of predicted to not do very well. For her to not admit in the face of overwhelming evidence that she has screwed up, we really felt like we had something really good – but then our tracking, when they’re trying to see if an audience is going to show up and if people have heard of it, was really bad. And so that’s really just why that whole scene exists. And you just go too far and make a mistake, and then you won’t admit it.
I would say the reason why that dress shop scene works is it’s a very relatable thing of trying to compete with somebody else and trying to look like you’re richer or cooler or something better than the person you’re competing with. That cast in front of the camera was so good and so funny, but also such good actors too, that’s the difference.Įverybody remembers the dress shop scene, which is outrageous, but at the same time, if the movie was just that, it would’ve just been some kind of a raunchy comedy. But this one just really came together really well. But then you string it together and sometimes it just isn’t as good as the whole thing. And we’re getting really great stuff.” But you know, whenever I’m making a movie, especially when it’s going well, I always kinda go, “I hope it adds up,” because you know, you can make a movie in every single scene and every moment is so funny. But you’re having fun every day and definitely going like, “Wow, this is really funny. But I always say, nobody ever sets out to make a bad movie, and you always kind of go into it going, like, “Everyone’s going to love this.” But you know, you get into the day-to-day of it and it just becomes a thing you’re doing. Paul Feig: You always hope that’s going to happen with everything you do, but it very rarely happens. TheWrap: When did you know that you had something so special and did you always knew it would blossom into this iconic film that would be quoted all the time 10 years later? “And you just go too far and make a mistake, and then you won’t admit it.” “I would say the reason why that dress shop scene works is it’s a very relatable thing of trying to compete with somebody else and trying to look like you’re richer or cooler or something better than the person you’re competing with,” Feig said. For him, it was a culmination of Wiig’s character fighting for the livelihood of her friendship. To Feig, the iconic dress shop scene – you know, the one where everyone falls terribly ill – represented more than just comedy. If it was guys, it’d be the same emotions that everybody has.” Chris O’Dowd’s character, her love interest, doesn’t solve her problems because O’Dowd is sort of this prize at the end when she solved her own problems with herself and with her friend and with her weird competition, you know, and all this insecurity… We never wanted to be like, ‘Oh, women can’t get along.’ It’s just like, you’re in a competition fighting over a friend. “The romantic comedy aspect of it is just like a reward for getting your life together with her. “This kind of came to me like a wedding movie, a romantic comedy, but what drew me to it was the fact that it was about a female friendship,” Feig explained. Wiig played a maid of honor in her best friend’s wedding, but soon, one of her friend’s newest friends draws wedge between the two besties. Judd Apatow, Barry Mendel and Clayton Townsend produced the comedy, which starred Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Rose Byrne and Melissa McCarthy. “Bridesmaids” was written by Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo, and directed by Feig. ‘Bridesmaids’ Duo Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo Reunite for ‘Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar’