Comedy Bridesmaids crushed it at the box office, grossing over $451 million worldwide and earning two Oscar nominations.
The 2011 hit, starring Aussies Rebel Wilson and Rose Byrne among an all-star cast, quickly became a cult classic, and in the 14 years since fans have wanted to find out what happens to the group after the wedding.
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But director Paul Feig tells 9honey Celebrity in London there aren’t any plans for a sequel.
“Probably not,” he says when asked if fans can ever expect a second movie. “Well, honestly, that’s up to Kristen [Wiig], really, because Kristen and Annie [Mumolo] wrote that script.”
Feig doesn’t think a follow-up film is wise from a fan perspective, either.
“I think people always think they want sequels, and then if you see a sequel that doesn’t hold up, then you’re like, ‘Oh, I wish they didn’t do that’,” he said.
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Feig, who is on the promotional trail for his first-ever sequel, Another Simple Favour – the follow up to 2018’s A Simple Favour – says this movie’s been his only exception to his “I don’t do sequels” rule.
The movie sees Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick return together on screen as their ‘frenemy’ characters head to Italy.
Emily (Lively) is out of prison and getting married, so naturally she asks social media influencer – and the amatuer detective who put her behind bars in the first place – Stephanie (Kendrick) to be her maid of honour.
“We had so much fun on the first one, and since I don’t do sequels, I’m always kind of end of movie like, ‘Oh, shoot, that’s over. I had so much fun on this’, so it was nice,” Feig says of the experience.
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“[It’s] like ‘oh, good, we get to get together again’ and then we get to bring in a whole new cast of characters around everybody, that gave us extra energy too.”
While Feig doesn’t do really do sequels, he does re-team with a lot of the same actors.
For instance, after Bridesmaids, he worked with Melissa McCarthy again on the comedy capers The Heat and Spy – although, Feig also tells 9honey Celebrity long-standing rumours of a Spy 2 are false.
And then there’s Henry Golding, the actor he worked with on A Simple Favour, Last Christmas and again with Another Simple Favour.
The pair gush about working together, both saying their least favourite thing about the experience is “when it ends”.
“We always have so much fun, we just hang out a lot and have whiskey and martinis,” Feig says of working with Golding.
The Crazy Rich Asians star agrees but takes his love for working with the director a step further by “blurting” out a set secret.
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“Yeah, a fair few whiskeys and cigars and restaurants and nights out that happen,” Golding tells 9honey Celebrity.
“So, that is true, but my favourite [part] is that Paul has a history of giving me some amazing wrap gifts.
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“I think on the first Simple Favour – I’m gonna blurt this out – he bought me this beautiful suit at the end of the first film, that I still have to this day, and I kind of fit it.
“It might need a little expansion, on the waist,” Golding laughs, prompting Feig to add, “Well, don’t we all!”
Another Simple Favour is streaming on Prime Video from May 1.
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