“We set out just to write something in our voice, that showed women being funny in the way that we know them to be funny. “I think the movie has taken on a significance that we didn’t anticipate, to be honest,” Mumolo adds. “A few days before the movie came out, we started hearing that the future of female R-rated comedies and women in comedy and stuff depends on this movie,” Annie Mumolo, who cowrote “Bridesmaids” with star Kristen Wiig, reveals. Such attitudes put enormous pressure on “Bridesmaids” to perform. “I mean, any of my guy friends, when I start to tell them what women really talk about and what really goes down, they don’t want to hear it they cover their ears.” “Maybe men just don’t have the stomach for it they don’t want to see it on film because they just can’t take it,” the actress says when asked about the previous prevailing attitude. There was a real appetite among women to see themselves represented in a comedy in a different way.”ĭiaz reckons the slow acceptance of R-rated funny ladies may also have something to do with the fact that Hollywood producers and studio executives are still, for the most part, men. Part of the phenomenon of what’s happening with ‘Bridesmaids’ is that, it turns out, people really did want that. There’s been a business perception that that’s not what audiences want. “But it also partly points up how almost criminally little we’ve given women to do in comedies - and particularly in R-rated comedies. “I think it’s a cool thing,” Kasdan continues. A couple of movies at the same time noticed that and have tried to give hilarious women some other stuff to do. More than anything, it reflects that there’s been a somewhat limited range of female comedy characters. “These movies don’t really have anything else in common except for the one strong unifier, which is that they’re edgy, R-rated comedies built around a female protagonist. “On some level it’s a coincidence,” “Bad Teacher” director Jake Kasdan observes.
In Hollywood producing circles, realistic feminine raunch has long been considered commercially dicey. You can safely bet, though, that by sometime in 2012, a whole lot of actresses will be trying to get laughs by doing things on the big screen that, only months ago, may have been unthinkable. It remains to be seen how far the women will go in such upcoming adult comedies as “Friends With Benefits,” “Horrible Bosses” and “Our Idiot Brother.” “Y’know, women have always behaved badly I think, probably, worse than men.” “Maybe this moment is just the time for women to come clean,” says Diaz, who helped launch the guy-centered outrageous comedy cycle in “There’s Something About Mary” (1998), but saw her own early attempt to make a girl’s version of it, “The Sweetest Thing,” fizzle four years later. ‘Bad Teacher,’ ‘Bridesmaids’ could usher in a new era of female raunch comedy – The Mercury News
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