“I mean, any of my guy friends, when I start to tell them what women really talk about and what really goes down, they don’t want to hear it they cover their ears.” “Maybe men just don’t have the stomach for it they don’t want to see it on film because they just can’t take it,” the actress says when asked about the previous prevailing attitude. There was a real appetite among women to see themselves represented in a comedy in a different way.”ĭiaz reckons the slow acceptance of R-rated funny ladies may also have something to do with the fact that Hollywood producers and studio executives are still, for the most part, men.
Part of the phenomenon of what’s happening with ‘Bridesmaids’ is that, it turns out, people really did want that.
There’s been a business perception that that’s not what audiences want. “But it also partly points up how almost criminally little we’ve given women to do in comedies - and particularly in R-rated comedies. “I think it’s a cool thing,” Kasdan continues. A couple of movies at the same time noticed that and have tried to give hilarious women some other stuff to do. More than anything, it reflects that there’s been a somewhat limited range of female comedy characters. “These movies don’t really have anything else in common except for the one strong unifier, which is that they’re edgy, R-rated comedies built around a female protagonist. “On some level it’s a coincidence,” “Bad Teacher” director Jake Kasdan observes. In Hollywood producing circles, realistic feminine raunch has long been considered commercially dicey. You can safely bet, though, that by sometime in 2012, a whole lot of actresses will be trying to get laughs by doing things on the big screen that, only months ago, may have been unthinkable. It remains to be seen how far the women will go in such upcoming adult comedies as “Friends With Benefits,” “Horrible Bosses” and “Our Idiot Brother.” “Y’know, women have always behaved badly I think, probably, worse than men.” “Maybe this moment is just the time for women to come clean,” says Diaz, who helped launch the guy-centered outrageous comedy cycle in “There’s Something About Mary” (1998), but saw her own early attempt to make a girl’s version of it, “The Sweetest Thing,” fizzle four years later. "But the whole ride home from the audition, I was thinking, 'I got too weird.‘Bad Teacher,’ ‘Bridesmaids’ could usher in a new era of female raunch comedy – The Mercury News 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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