To celebrate Bride Hard, I spoke with Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Gigi Zumbado, and Sherry Cola about what they want to see when it comes to female leads, memorable bonding moments between the cast, their hopes for a sequel, and more. The new action comedy will be released in theaters on June 20.
Sam (Rebel Wilson) is a world-class secret agent… and a pretty terrible maid of honor. After blowing off bridal duties for an international spy mission, she’s demoted to bridesmaid at her childhood best friend’s wedding. What should’ve been a weekend of reconnecting and celebration turns into a five-star death trap when armed mercenaries crash the big day. Sam’s the only one who can save the bride, and hopefully earn back the trust she lost along the way. Dodging bullets and trying not to ruin the floral arrangements, Sam takes on the ultimate wedding crasher, realizing that sometimes the toughest mission isn’t taking down the bad guys, but showing up for the people who matter.
“I also think there’s so little female comedies out there right now. I couldn’t tell you — has there been one this year, I think? That’s it. There’s hardly any out at the cinemas. I mean, it often stems from the writers and the representation in the writing,” Wilson expressed. “I’m so girl power, I mean, we both are and I went to an all-girls high school and so, I never felt any… like, there was ever any inequality, but I think there still is a little bit of a perception of that male driven films are better, will perform better in the cinemas. But then, there’s things that contradict that all the time, but then it never quite changes. It’s still a little bit of an imbalance, even though it’s getting better.”
“I always like to see a woman who can be funny and hardcore, and can be gross, and can be silly, and can be all of the things; that we don’t have to just be that one thing,” Camp, who stars Betsy, commented. “Writing has come so far, we still have a long way to go, but I want to do it all, right? I don’t want to just leave those parts for the men; I want to be able to be everything. So I think that, in this movie, it tackles a lot of those aspects of being a woman. You get to be funny and hardcore, you know what I mean? Like, isn’t that so cool? And that’s what I also want to watch, as a woman.”
Zumbado, who portrays Zoe, shared, “I remember watching Isla Fisher and just seeing this beautiful woman, who is not afraid to be ugly. I don’t know if there’s a better way to put that, but her physical comedy, I just remember always, everything that I’ve seen her in, I’m like, ‘Damn, she just goes there.’ Like, boundary, whatever, it’s like, no, she’s not self-conscious about how she looks or how she’s holding herself, and she is stunning and always is stunning, but she just lets loose and that’s something I’ve always admired, and was honored to try and showcase and put into my work that I could be this girl, but in moments of chaos, just let go. I tried to just let go, and then naturally, the comedy comes there. I guess my face just does its own thing and people laugh at that.”
“I am a fan first. I love watching cinema and taking it all in and being inspired, and I think this film, one of the themes is that women can do it all. We can kick ass, we can have these grounded human moments, and then we can have these heightened, spontaneous, explosive moments as well, and in between the themes of friendship and work-life balance,” Cola, who plays Nadine, told me. “It’s finally time for us to use our own voices and show how brave we can be, and how good we are at multitasking, and how the balance exists because women are good at everything.”
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