It’s also evidence that McCarthy, a veteran TV actress and bit player in studio films, may finally start getting recognition as one of Hollywood’s most fearlessly funny ladies. The movie “Bridesmaids” - which opens Friday and stars McCarthy in a performance that achieves new heights in freaky-deaky comedy - is evidence of that fact. She even grew up on a farm in Plainfield, Ill., a place that clearly deserves an award for Most Normal-Sounding City in America.īut somewhere beneath all that vaguely Midwestern-accented pleasantness lurks an unhinged, bizarre woman.
She’s the sort of woman who plans to make “a big shark cake” for her elder daughter’s fourth birthday and who actually uses the word “gosh” in a sentence while discussing someone who publicly insulted her. You say that as if it's odd.After a half-hour conversation with actress Melissa McCarthy, one might be inclined to assume she’s the most levelheaded, regular person on planet Earth.
Colbert followed up by asking whether they were wearing the taffeta dresses that were the characters' costumes for most of the movie, to which McCarthy responded, "Yeah. That's a lot of hedging, but people don't tend to be so wishy-washy about not wetting their pants, and Melissa McCarthy has a long history of cracking up her co-stars. I can't name names, but I would say more than two and less than five of us were laughing so hard that we may or may not have wet our pants." "We were trapped out there because we were on these little pedestals in water. "We were out on the water," McCarthy explained. "It was brand new to me, so I constantly was making us all into men, especially older men." That technology-enabled shenanigans might have even made the cast wet themselves with laughter - she was intentionally vague - while filming the final scene of the film. McCarthy says she was always manipulating photos of her castmates. McCarthy proceeded with a story about her on-set hijinks that was right on brand for "Bridesmaids," one that involves taffeta dresses and incontinence. "Many of us had been friends for a long time already." When Melissa McCarthy sat down this week for a freewheeling interview with Stephen Colbert on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" to promote her new movie, "The Starlet," the host asked whether there were any stories from the "Bridesmaids" production that had not yet been revealed. Had it not been for the strength of its cast, comprised of comic legends from Melissa McCarthy to Maya Rudolph, its graphically scatological humor may not have been so embraced by audiences.Įven 10 years later, the "Bridesmaids" cast still gets questions about the film. Led by a squad of Hollywood's funniest actors, the female-driven raunchy wedding comedy shocked and delighted audiences in equal measure. A decade after its release, "Bridesmaids" has cemented its place in the pantheon of all-time greatest comedies, and even now fans clamor for a sequel.
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