There’s nothing wrong with the restaurant.’ It’s the comedy of someone denying something and the overwhelming evidence that’s proving them wrong. There’s a problem here.’ It’s only funny because Kristen Wiig’s going, ‘I’m fine. So you needed enough to like, ‘Uh oh, they’re in trouble. But also, we just didn’t want it to be for teenage boys. The whole thing with that scene, with in general, but especially with that sequence, was I never wanted anybody to lose their dignity, even though they were on the edge of losing their dignity. Obviously there’s a balance that needs to be considered in such a scene, and Feig revealed that the following calculus went into knowing just how far this moment could be pushed: During one of the movie’s most memorable jokes, Annie (Kristen Wiig), her best friend/bride-to-be Lilian (Maya Rudolph) and the rest of the Bridesmaids are subject to the bodily groans and grumbles of food poisoning. But I quizzed the director on this moment for one particular reason, and it’s all thanks to that scene’s sound design.
It was natural that in a chat I had with Paul Feig himself about celebrating 10 years of this memorable comedy, as well as it landing an exclusive streaming home at Peacock, this Bridesmaids moment was going to come up.