WIIG: In the beginning, it was about what it is really like to be in a wedding. But I want to know what inspired you to make this movie. GROHL: I have to say, I haven’t seen Bridesmaids yet. WIIG: That’s such a compliment that it’s creepy. When they hear it coming out of your face, it’s a little fucking creepy. GROHL: How can you do it so well? It freaks people out. How do you do that? Is it just your ear? Is there a process? You’re really good at doing those sorts of things on SNL. GROHL: I have a soft spot for Bret Michaels in my heart.
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GROHL: I was so happy when Bret Michaels got that big, popular TV show, because he has that Pennsylvania accent. When I moved to Rochester, I would always say, “I’m just joshing you.” Everyone was like, “Why are you saying that?” I’m like, “I dunno, that’s how people talk where I’m from.” WIIG: I do remember people telling me that I talked funny. GROHL: You didn’t have that Pennsylvania accent, did you? WIIG: I lived in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until eighth grade, and then my high-school years were in Rochester, New York. WIIG: I definitely ran with a pack of hoodlums, that’s for sure. All of those things you should not do, we did them, but we shouldn’t have done them. Which I am not recommending teenagers do if they read this. I cared more about hanging out and skipping school than studying. WIIG: I probably lived more of a rock-star life when I was 15.
For whatever reason, most rock ’n’ roll dudes relate to you out of any other woman on the cast. GROHL: Well, I’ve got to say that you’re probably the biggest crush of any. KRISTEN WIIG: I’ve just about finished my sixth season. The two reminisced about bachelorette parties and wedding stories, raising hell, doing drugs, skipping school, and the enduring appeal of death metal and mix tapes.ĭAVE GROHL: You know, the Foo Fighters played on the first Saturday Night Live that you were ever on. In between writing sessions for SNL, she took a break to speak with Foo Fighters front man Dave Grohl.
This month she takes center stage with a bona fide starring role, re-teaming with Judd Apatow and Paul Feig for Bridesmaids, a comedy she created with her frequent writing partner (and Groundlings collaborator) Annie Mumolo. Like many of her SNL forbears, the 37-year-old Wiig has also made the leap into movies, with small but memorable turns in films like Knocked Up (2007), Adventureland (2009), Whip It (2009), and Extract (2009). Her deep repertoire of impersonations, which range from Suze Orman and Kathie Lee Gifford to Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachmann, are cut from similar cloth: brilliantly lacking in self-awareness often inflated in their senses of self-worth almost universally socially awkward and eminently recognizable as individuals. During her six seasons on Saturday Night Live, the cast of indelible characters that Kristen Wiig has unleashed on the late-night viewing public-Aunt Linda, a film critic with terrible taste Penelope, the compulsive one-upper Gilly, a schoolgirl who says sorry after violent pranks on her classmates the Target Lady-have become iconic in an era when iconography is in short supply.