“How much did the success ofBridesmaidsmean to you?
“Jesse Tyler Fergusonasked Feig on a recent episode of theDinner’s On Mepodcast.
“Everything,” Feig answered.
‘Bridesmaids’ stars Wendi McLendon-Covey, Rose Byrne, Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Maya Rudolph, and Ellie Kemper.Suzanne Hanover/Universal Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection
“It was everything.”
And it’s like, ‘Really?
So I’m just about to kill movies for women.’
‘Bridesmaids’ star and co-writer Kristen Wiig.Suzanne Hanover
And nobody thinks they’re making a bad movie either.”
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The budget forBridesmaidswas $32.5 million.
I’m like, ‘Sorry, man.'”
And as we’re at dinner, I’m getting these texts.
They’re like, ‘It’s looking like $18 million.
Well, it’s looking like $19 million.
And then suddenly it’s going like 22, 23, 24.
“I’m like, ‘Get in the car everybody!
“And it was just like, ‘We did it!’
Bridesmaidswent on to earn $26 million in itsopening weekend.
By the end of its first week in theaters, it had grossed $44 million.
Feig creditsBridesmaidsproducerJudd Apatowabove all for busting him out by “giving me that chance” to direct.
The success ofBridesmaidswas fantastic for its director, writers, and the film’s whole cast.
That’s kind of all that mattered.”
