‘Bridesmaids’ Director Paul Feig, 10 Years Later

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4.6 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Exactly a decade after ‘Bridesmaids’ hit theaters and smashed records, director Paul Feig joins the podcast to look back on how it all came together so perfectly. Feig goes deep on the whole process, from how he escaped “movie jail” to land the gig to discovering the power of Melissa McCarthy during the audition process and shares behind-the-scenes stories from the movie’s funniest sequences. He also opens up about the pressure he and collaborators Kristen Wiig, Annie Mumulo and Judd Apatow felt to deliver a hit that would somehow prove the value of female-led comedies and why that burden never should have been placed on their shoulders.

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0:38.5	I mean, it just doesn't get much better than this.
0:42.8	Hey, buddy.
0:44.4	How are you doing?
0:45.5	I'm good.
0:46.5	I feel so much more relaxed.
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1:13.7	This is The Last Laugh.
1:15.9	I'm Matt Wilstein from The Daily Beast,
1:20.4	and that was perhaps my single favorite clip from Bridesmaids,
1:23.4	directed by today's guest, Paul Feig.
1:26.9	Bridesmaids, which was produced by Judd Apatow and written by Annie Mummolo and star Kristen Wigg,
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