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KW: Yeah, exactly. It just sort of worked out (laughs).

WMC: Where else but a wedding would you put these idiots together? Parties are notorious for putting together a mélange of people who would never be friends.

KW: That might be one of the reasons why there are a lot of movies about weddings. You could put any person you want in the same room (laughs).

That is true about the amount of wedding movies out there, but this one is far more raunchy, just with how the women talk and act. What was the motive behind that?

KW: I feel like when we started writing it, we never saw it as a wedding movie. In the earlier drafts for the first three years, there wasn’t even a wedding in it at the end. We didn’t really set out to make it different from other movies or make any statement about those movies. It’s kind of like you were saying, the wedding is just a backdrop in the way. We just wanted to write a fun script where our friends could come in and play and write something that had a lot of women in it…

WMC: But without being a chick-flick. But so many movies are “Who talks that way?” Nobody I know. We aren’t a bunch of Victorian ladies who speak in code for things. We are very real. We talk about sex and then we talk about our feelings afterwards (laughs). But this is how people are.

KW: Yeah, we drink, we have a good time, we swear.

WMC: All men don’t love sports. Women don’t go shoe-shopping every day and men don’t go to the Super Bowl every day (laughs).

Kristen, we recently saw you in Paul, which had a very male cast compared to Bridesmaids. So how was that environment for you?

KW: Uhmmm, it was very, I don’t know how to answer that. I would say that being on a predominantly female set is rare. Not just in reference to Paul, but besides Whip It, I guess for me, every movie I’ve done has been mostly guys. And Whip It is another example of a movie that has mostly women in it. I hope that it’s not a rare thing for the future to have a comedy or any movie have a lot of women in it. So many people are saying that [Bridesmaids] is this different thing because of that, which is sad to me, to see a poster with six ladies on it as being rare, because there are so many amazing funny women out there who should have the opportunity to do more things like this.

Are you writing anymore female-lead films?

KW: I am finishing up the [Saturday Night Live] season now and we will have to wait for this one to come out, and I am writing something now that is an adaptation of a novel, so there are not that many characters in it.

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