Not only did the comedy maestro want to put Wiig center stage in a movie, he wanted her to pen it, too. But director Judd Apatow was so bowled over by her improvisational skills playing Katherine Heigl’s petulant boss Jill that he made her the offer of a lifetime. Knocked Up was responsible for Bridesmaids’ conception.Ĭhances are you’ve forgotten that Kristen Wiig was even in Knocked Up. A full decade on from its release, here’s a look at 20 facts you might not have known about the street-defecating, flight-disrupting, Wilson Phillips-reviving hit. Not only did the Kristen Wiig comedy silence any chauvinists who believed that men had the monopoly on laughs, its box office haul also spearheaded a wave of female-fronted comedies ranging from Bachelorette to Booksmart and turned Melissa McCarthy into a bankable leading lady (it also earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress). "These are smart, funny women," read one of the poster quotes for Bridesmaids, as if such a concept had previously been unfathomable to Hollywood’s critical elite.
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