It’s hard to imagine the 2011 film Bridesmaids without the iconic food poisoning scene.
During a recent video interview with Vanity Fair, Kristen Wiig reunited with her former co-star Rose Byrne and looked back on the Oscar-nominated film, directed by Paul Feig.
At one point, the Saturday Night Live alum admitted that the infamous scene wasn’t part of the movie’s original script. “That was a sequence that came later in the writing process that we sort of embraced and like, OK, we’ll write our version of this type of thing,” Wiig explained. “We just kind of made it our own. We don’t want to see any vomit [but] you can find a way to do your version of it.”
“It was so fun to do that scene and to see … everyone’s version of not feeling well and trying to hide it. It was fun to watch the ladies do their thing,” she added.
The particular scene in question saw the friend group suffer from sudden food poisoning while trying on expensive wedding dresses after they had eaten at a cheap restaurant. Chaos ensues, leading to extreme involuntary vomiting and diarrhea and absolutely ruining the bridal boutique.
In 2017, Feig revealed to Esquire that there’s another version of the food poisoning sequence that fans didn’t see, as they decided it was too gross to make the final cut.
“There’s a deleted sequence where, after Becca throws up on Rita’s head, she has to throw up again, so she runs out of the bathroom and down the hall, thinking that there’s another bathroom at the end of the hallway,” the filmmaker recalled. “It turns out that the door opens onto Whitney’s office; she throws the door open and projectile vomits across this beautiful white office, and all over the wedding picture of Whitney and her husband.”
“We shot a lot of outrageous stuff knowing that we could adjust the balance later,” he added. “The minute we shot that sequence, we all said, ‘I think this is a bridge too far.’ So we scrapped that.”
In addition to Wiig and Byrne, Bridesmaids also starred Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper and Wendi McLendon-Covey.